Comments on: Talking Points: Germany 4-0 Australia http://backpagefootball.com/talking-points-germany-4-0-australia/6532/ Fri, 24 May 2013 18:18:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mihu http://backpagefootball.com/talking-points-germany-4-0-australia/6532/comment-page-1/#comment-7124 mihu Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:41:13 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=6532#comment-7124 totally awesome performance by germany last night. i read a lot in today’s (international) newspapers about australia playing poorly thus having the germans play so well. but to me, the permanent clever movements and fluidity of the likes of podolski, ozil, muller really was the key to emberass the aussie backline. imagine a static italy (or-what the hell- even france) playing oz yesterday and you’ll have a hard time getting excited about it.
this said, the next match against serbia will be indicatory in terms of whether the young germans can go all the way to the semi-finals, which already would be seen as an outstanding result or whether this was just a fly-by-night.

btw: lovely read!

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