Germany

It's hard to say man. Neuer can only get better as keepers usually do and Neuer will have had more experience, but I feel if anyone were to replace Neuer, it would be "Youcan'tscoremorethan1onme" Ter Stegen.

taking it oldschool:

http://www.soccer-warriors.de/wp-content/2009/09/11F_Cover_70er.jpg

I liked it! But I remember we used to have a kit you know black between red vertical stripes? That was awesome. This one is cool too :)

These green jerseys look ugly as hell... looks like a Wolfsburg jersey *yuk*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. why couldn't they just stick with black :(

How dare you omit Muller?! Lol. Just kidding, anyone will do tbh. But we're not the only one overflowing with talented players. Spain are too. But we'll get them this time.

I don't like this formation with a back three.
I rather prefer the following formation:

------------------Neuer-------------------
Boateng----Badstuber----Hummels-----Lahm--
------------BS31------------Khedira----------------
Götze-------------Kroos-------------Özil---
------------------Klose---------------------

Bench: Ter Stegen, Mertesacker, Schmelzer, Bender, Schürrle, Reus, Müller, Gomez

wait, I'm interested to know why you guys are leaving Muller on the bench? Has he been off form?

I wouldn't play Reus or Gotze ahead of Muller just yet. Muller has been one of our best.

The Bayern guys should know better, let's see if there's something going on with the wonder kid. Maybe he's in horrendous form at the moment?

Yeah but since when do Germany pay THAT MUCH attention to the form of individual players? Look at Klose, Podolski and even Ozil (before 2012, after 2010/2011 season). These three players still got picked up.

I'm referring to Podolski and Klose before this season btw. That's the thing with Lowe. He sees things we don't!

Oh yeah, good point, it completely slipped my mind.

LOL r u guys outta ur mind.. like mueller shouldnt even be picked for the national team.. hes the main reason for our defeats lately.. his level of the game dropped by fifty percent u cant compare last year's mueller with this year's mueller what so ever .. i donno what happened to him but for now that would be my line up and in case of stronger team i would have

-------------------neuer--------------------
boateng-----hummels-----badstuber-------lahm
--------------khedira-----schweinstiger-----
goetze-----------------ozil------------kroos
-------------------klose---------------------

------neuer------
howedes-boateng-hummels-lahm
---khedira--schweini---
muller-ozil-podolski
------klose------

depending on poldis performance put schurrle in, depending on mullers performance put goetze in. mullers playing horribly for bayern right now but he's totally different playing for die mannschaft, look at the holland game and how vital he was

Well not sure about Poldi, but the Klose and Muller's situations are quite different. Klose was out of form(I wouldn't call it though!) because he didn't get the time to play as he was out of favor of LVG. He was just a sub. Got on average 5-10 mins. What would you expect him to be when he wasn't provided with good amount of playtime? On the other hand Muller is getting literally 90min of playing time(unless he's getting subbed by anyone) however hardly coming up with anything. Its been a while that he's on field but couldn't do anything. it is disappointing. As much as i love muller and his awesomeness wearing national jersey, i would want Götze play rather than him :( :( however if he gets better before euro then i'd put him in starting 11 without even doubting.
till then i would prefer
Neuer
Boa-Höwedes-Hummels-Lahm
Basti-Kroos
Götze-Özil-Poldii
Klose

Hell yeah, I hope he plays 'till he's 40 and I'm not even joking.

and today he scored 2 goals within 2 min against Chievo :D How awesome is that?? :D

Klose is a monster.

I know Gomez is scoring freely for Bayern at the moment, but why can't he lead the German NT? I'm worried that no one can fill Klose's boots after they go up. Logically, Gomez and Klose, with similar builds and style should be similar in nature, but it hasn't worked out thus far with the NT.

I don't think that Gomez has developed that predatory instinct that Klose has. Gomez is not so young either so I hope he's able to get that instinct soon, especially since we won't have Klose for 2014, much to our dissatisfaction.

ya i know!!

Add 2002 to the mix. We were finalists then.

It will come in time. If we manage to win 2012 than 2014 won't look so far away from us. The best part of this squad is the willingness of each and every one of our players to fight to the death for the team.

I think Germany are the team to make the most appearances in the World Cup, the most progression through the group stage, the most appearances in the semi finals and the most appearances in the finals. The last one might be close between Germany and Brazil. Also the team that has Mesut Ozil. :P

Oh come on, a midfield comprising of the likes of Ozil, Muller, Kroos, Sweinsteiger, Khedira, Gotze, Reus and many more has got to be the most devastating side the world has ever seen. We just need to get past Barca, oops I mean Spain, and we'd definitely be able to dominate world football for years to come.

Damn and there so young. I believe Lowe will find a way past Spain. Spain have defeated us by 1 goal margin in the past two encounters and it's not like they completely dominated us. If anyone can stop Spain I think it's fair to say Lowe might be the right guy for it.

It's the same damn strategy that we at Madrid need to break down. Possession football. The best way is to match their off the ball movement with our own, or otherwise to outright foul them, as Holland did.

has anyone noticed that except 1978 one side of every WC final until 2006 has been either Brazil or Germany.

hail ozil!

Damn transfer button !!!

Indeed, I mean, is there even transfers going on between National teams? That button's completely redundant on the NT pages.

Unless there're more people like Di Stefano :d