Will Germany thrash us again?

gwhite wrote: Don't mind ze Germans taking 6 points off us as long as we go down fighting each time.

Exactly. Can we at least try instead of giving up before a ball is kicked. Defeat with dignity a minimum.


Edited by 085immersive - 19 Jul 2014 at 4:06pm

Yeah Philip lahm has just announced his retirement so I think we will definitely beat them home and away now

After the Ghana match i have some hope.
Germany are at their strongest in midfield and they will kill us if we play 4-4-2.
I hope MON plays a different formation and give us a chance on the counter,they are not great at the back

If we use this formation against germany we might have a small chance with 10 men behind the ball and colemab allowed burst forward

St.Pauli Reloaded 2 wrote: Trap junior wrote: Northern Ireland had a kip of a stadium in Windsor Park and that was a major reason they were able to beat some big teams there. I also dont think its a coincidence that our home form went south once they redeveloped lansdowne.  Small capacity sh*thole stadiums bursting with atmosphere are intimidating for opposition teams not half empty modern mod con stadiums where the crowd are further away fromt he pitch and they can go into their luxury dressing room and play on a perfect pitch.  Look when we beat Spain in 1989. A kip of a pitch. Long bumpy grass, half mucky. You couldnt play a passing game on it. Ideal for our hoofball tactics/ Plus the dressing rooms were small and pokey with poor facilities.  So your saying we should play them all at Dalyer

Sure we'd have better chance if we got them outta Dublin completely, Finn Park is the spot to take on the Fatherland

Northern Ireland had a kip of a stadium in Windsor Park and that was a major reason they were able to beat some big teams there. I also dont think its a coincidence that our home form went south once they redeveloped lansdowne.  Small capacity sh*thole stadiums bursting with atmosphere are intimidating for opposition teams not half empty modern mod con stadiums where the crowd are further away fromt he pitch and they can go into their luxury dressing room and play on a perfect pitch.  Look when we beat Spain in 1989. A kip of a pitch. Long bumpy grass, half mucky. You couldnt play a passing game on it. Ideal for our hoofball tactics/ Plus the dressing rooms were small and pokey with poor facilities. 

TheMightyQuinn wrote: While we may not match Germany in quality, we should not accept taking 0 points from them. someone in this group is going to get some points from them, and our players/ staff need to believe it can be us. (example: Sweden against them in the qualifiers). We won't best them over an entire qulaifiying campaign, but anything can happen over 90 minutes.

Right, so Germany blow 4 goal leads at home on a regular basis?

Germany won their last ECQ group with 30 points. They won the last group with 28 points, hitting Sweden and us for 9 each. This group will be a walkover for them.

I hate to point to the nordies...but look at some of the teams they scalped over the years.

Yes, their current coach has won 1 game in charge. At the price of other historic results against Iceland, Malta, Luxembourg, and losing 6-0 in Holland. Not exactly a record to write home about.

Part of the appeal of MON is that he is able to get the most out of his players. While some of the scores were not flattering, we played some of our best football I have seen in years in those friendlies.

He's 6 games without a win. So he's finding out that life after Trap isn't a fiesta of goals and five star football.

Watch the Serbia match again and don't forget apart from us missing a few chances in the first half against Turkey, they still should have been down to 10 men after the opening few minutes. Those games could've been won before the other teams came back.

Teams came back? Turkey took the lead after c15 minutes and held onto it comfortably. Serbia were the better side before half time, and when they did go ahead, there was no response. There's no need for me to watch it again, watching it 20 yards in front of me at the time was punishment enough.

We will see but I don't think they will in the running for the 2 nd automatic qualification spot but will take some points off Scotland Poland and Ireland at some stage.

Georgia have the potential to best us or Scotland or Poland but they don't have the potential to challenge for 2nd. If that sounds like a contradiction fair enough. Howber I think they are a classic troublesome team kinda like Everton. Potential to beat any of the top teams but not good enough for title challenge.