Don't get me wrong. I love the 4-4-2, but the Germans are playing it such bore. There are exciting ways to play this 4-4-2. The South Americans play the 4-4-2 very well and with excitement not just from the wings but centrally as well.

On a side note. Let the rise of the Eastern European Nations begin!

HERE IT IS GUYS, IT WAS OFFSIDE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKXyl3XNo0s
Drogba would say now: "ITS A DISGRACE, ITS A f*****g DISGRACE!" and guess what Eintracht, he is right.

And another more positive thing: What I love about the European qualifiers is how much the level of the smaller teams have risen. I mean, Liechtenstein still don't stand a chance, and in all likelihood most of the favourites will qualify, but you saw in that game how close Austria is to Germany on some levels. There's a lot of quality in some Eastern European teams like Montenegro, Albania, Slovenia, Bosnia...
Long story short, I find it exciting that in 4 years we'll see a 24 team Euro...

What already annoys me (pre-emptively :-) ) is that come the next qualifier, the experts and journalists on German TV will once again have forgotten how they won that game. Don't get me wrong, Germany have a great team – but it'd have to win tournament after tournament to justify the amount of (self-)confidence the German media public seem to have in their team. I am absolutely certain the German team will qualify and will deserve to do so, but I do hope there'll be some defeats along the way (go Zlatan) to put their qualities into perspective...

damn austria played good

these players need to play in bigger clubs

always nice seeing germany play.

Germany got lucky..this was Austria's game to win.

From what I just watched, Austria lost the game, Germany didn't win it. Austria were hungry for goals and really put pressure on Germany's defence, causing several mental and tactical mistakes. They just didn't quite get that finishing touch.

Germany need to improve before they will be competitive for a WC title.

I don't know what it is about Hummels, but he makes me nervous back there. He's very good don't get me wrong, just IDK what it is that makes me so nervous with him in the middle

lot of people saying that austria outplayed germany. lol is that a joke? count how many of austria chances came from the ball rebounding off players randomly

wow austrian fans must be the worst in the world. what a bunch of c***s.

Austria was better, no doubt.
btw, the 2-0 was irregular. it may have been a foul, but it was 2 meters offside befor the foul happened. and the offside wasnt even hard to see, they both ran into the same direction. but, yeah what should i say, german luck as always

SIEG!

Defensively Germany looked very poor. But this team is so young and exciting that if Spain was not there, then they would easily dominate for 10 years or so.