Schalke won the Revierderby with an excellent first-half display.
Atsuto Uchida came back into Jens Keller’s side, with Marco Hoger moving forward into midfield in place of Jermaine Jones.
Jurgen Klopp recalled Mats Hummels – although he didn’t seem 100% fit and only lasted half the game. Klopp left out Marco Reus, presumably because of rotation...
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Tags: 4-2-3-1 v 4-2-3-1, bastos, dortmund, draxler, farfan, full-backs, gotze, grosskreutz, hoger, hummels, huntelaar, keller, klopp, piszczek, schalke, schmelzer, squeezed, uchida
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ZM’s team of Euro 2012…
Iker Casillas, Spain
This wasn’t a tournament of particularly fine individual goalkeeping displays, but the best two goalkeepers of the tournament – and of the century – met as captains in the final. Until the, there was nothing to separate Casillas and Gianluigi Buffon, but after Casillas made a fine...
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Tags: agger, alba, buffon, casillas, coentrao, de rossi, dzagoev, Euro 2012, fabregas, gebre-selassie, hummels, ibrahimovic, iniesta, jiracek, khedira, moutinho, ozil, pepe, pereir, pirlo, ramos, ronaldo, xavi
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They didn’t win the competition, but Germany hit the greatest heights at World Cup 2010. While Spain embarked on a series of controlled but rather uninspiring 1-0 victories, Germany hit four goals past Australia, England and Argentina.
The problem was, those matches tended to be won with predominantly counter-attacking football. It’s a little harsh to...
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Tags: Germany, gomez, hummels, klose, lahm, loew, mertesacker, muller, ozil, podolski
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It’s that time of year again. Minimal explanation needed – eleven starts and eleven substitutes.
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Tags: alba, cazorla, falcao, hart, hummels, kompany, lichtsteiner, messi, pirlo, ronaldo, toure
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A self-explanatory list of eleven starters, and eleven substitutes.
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Tags: alves, cavani, coentrao, debuchy, falcao, hummels, iniesta, janssen, kompany, marcelo, messi, ozil, ronaldo, rossi, sahin, sanchez, silva, valdes, van der sar, vidal, vidic, xavi
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