[Spain vs Argentina] & [Morocco vs Uzbekistan] & [Iran vs Algeria]

[DR Strangemoosh]

That doesn't exclude the fact that they lost against Brazil today, with a decent squad, in their own country, against a nation with no Neymar on the pitch.
So imo Germany isn't even a slightly ahead of Brazil right now. On the contrary.

Disagree, these are friendlies. Final result isn't important, especially if the line up and tactics are completely different from one game to the next.

I am judging Germany's performance and how they played over a number of games.

How they played against Spain was frightening.

Respect your opinion though.

[Shahin K]

Spain and Brazil are the TOP favorites to win the WC.

Then comes Germany, France, Belgium, Argentina imo.

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[Kas-r]

Disagree, these are friendlies. Final result isn't important, especially if the line up and tactics are completely different from one game to the next.

I am judging Germany's performance and how they played over a number of games.

How they played against Spain was frightening.

Respect your opinion though.

I think you just underestimate Brazil, which I would rate slightly higher than Germany.

[Farhad21]

With Beiro in goal I would say we go down 4 or 5 goals atleast against Spain, our defense is not as solid as 2014

[Bagg10]

We will absolutely get raped by Spain in the last match of the group. And that is no shame.

Second match of the group*

And we need to limit goals conceded and not be demoralized before we take on Portugal.

[Saam]

With Beiro in goal I would say we go down 4 or 5 goals atleast against Spain, our defense is not as solid as 2014

LOL, is that a joke? Our first choice defense is much better this time around. And if either of Hosseini or Pouraliganji play with either Cheshmi or Montazeri we'd still be solid.

[DR Strangemoosh]

LOL, is that a joke? Our first choice defense is much better this time around. And if either of Hosseini or Pouraliganji play with either Cheshmi or Montazeri we'd still be solid.

Our players are better that's true. As a unit though it remains to be seen whether they can become the phalanx that the back four was in Brazil. Last few games they have been shakier. As you say with Hosseini and PAG hopefully things will be better but I'm worried that we won't have had a chance to practice with a consistent back 4 the same way we had before brazil WC.

[Kas-r]

Second match of the group*

And we need to limit goals conceded and not be demoralized before we take on Portugal.

Oh, yeah. But it all depends on the outcome of our march with Morocco though. If we lose the first match, we will already go demoralized to the second match.

[perspolis#1]

We need to go into the Spain game armed to the teeth with every trick we pulled from Asia.

Play our game and if we keep them at bay... use what the Syrians, Saudis, Qataris do to us... they always kindly check the length of the grass and if there is dew on the grass. We should do this in between injuries to check the humidity.

The key is to not let Spain play attractively. Stoppages.. free kicks. What I call 'Siege football'

[Kas-r]

We need to go into the Spain game armed to the teeth with every trick we pulled from Asia.
Play our game and if we keep them at bay... use what the Syrians, Saudis, Qataris do to us... they always kindly check the length of the grass and if there is dew on the grass. We should do this in between injuries to check the humidity.
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The key is to not let Spain play attractively. Stoppages.. free kicks. What I call 'Siege football'

That is all nice and well, but Spain is the one that will decide what happens in the match against us. We could have the best mentality in the world, but the difference in individual and team quality, tactical intelligence and substitutions is so great that only a huge Spanish off-day could save us. And even then we need a bloody miracle.

[RaginG Inferno]

Spain is a fearsome opponent. There is no easy way to contain them.

[Taz]

It's going to be a disgustingly long and painful 90 minutes. Argentina was fine as we took it to them and had our fair share of play and I did enjoy watching us defend in that game but I'm not sure it's going to be anywhere near as entertaining when these little midgets keep the ball so effectively. Hopefully we go at them because parking the bus against these kinds of sides isn't great, as Klopp said, its like a lottery.

[KeonKish]

Based on what I’ve seen in the last few months.

We need to focus on getting a result against Portugal.

Spain will be near impossible.

But Portugal is not so well rounded and lacks quality in defense.

We have a much better chance against them than we do against Spain


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[mahestan]

Based on what I’ve seen in the last few months.

We need to focus on getting a result against Portugal.

Spain will be near impossible.

But Portugal is not so well rounded and lacks quality in defense.

We have a much better chance against them than we do against Spain


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I totally agree with you. Portugal will collapse if we manage to take them by surprise and score a goal early on. Our battles will be against Morocco and Portugal. The game against Spain will be exponentially harder, not saying that our games against Morocco and Portugal are going to be easy. We are the underdog in all 3 matches.