Comments on: Serbia 1-0 Germany: red card changes the game

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:45:13 +0000

Gomez scored over 100 goals in his last 3 Stuttgart years. He is having a hard time with bayerns system and that led to lack of confidence.

By: Cris

Cris — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:49:22 +0000

That’s a huge misconception. Boateng has only been given a straight red once in his entire playing career. The yellow/reds he has gotten were all when played out of position. Loew’s mistake is utilizing him as a fullback, which is baffling to say the least.

By: Joolez

Joolez — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:36:36 +0000

@ ZM:

I don’t understand, why so many people including you regard Klose’s 2nd foul as a tactical one. Just because Stankovic was facing the german goal and was moving towards it?
Isn’t the “tactical foul” a foul used to break down the attacking play in order to gain time to give the defending team the possibility to reestablish the defensive order?
In this situation the german players had yet completely retreated to their own half, everything was under control.
Ivanovic had a little space on the right wing but Badstuber was (once) positioned in a decent way.
IMO this wasn’t a tactical foul, this yellow card was entirely redundant.

If my english was understandable, I would be very grateful for an explanation.

By: ZonalMarking

ZonalMarking — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:15:37 +0000

I must say I viewed it completely different to you, I thought Podolski did better than Muller!

By: ZonalMarking

ZonalMarking — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:14:20 +0000

I wish people wouldn’t throw accusations of ‘bias’ about if they disagree with something in the article.

The Germany v Australia piece I was accused of being biased against Germany, now presumably I’m biased towards Germany? It gets a bit ridiculous, it’s far more interesting to actually debate the game rather than the author’s own footballing persuasion.