Germany V Sweden World Cup 2018

Germany V Sweden

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Pregame bets:

Surely to God Germany will get their act together tomorrow. The fact that they could be knocked out proper by Sweden should be enough motivation for Low’s team to get their assess into gear.

And I just have a good feeling that they will jinx a peno. There are a lot of penalties in the World Cup so far and the Germans are the masters of getting them, so why not?

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Germany v Sweden – Germany to score a penalty 16/5

And if they do get a peno and/or score a few, then Muller should be on target.

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Germany v Sweden – Anytime Goalscorer Thomas Muller 9/5

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No luck, but I am just happy my pre tournament tip is still left in the competition. Maybe this will galvanize the team now to play better (clutching at straws I know!)

Beers: Group F of Beer World Cup:

World Cup of Beer Group F

Crocodile lager from Sweden was very disappointing in the first match up, and but for the fact that Korea didn’t have a beer competitor they surely would have lost. Tomorrow they will be up against Brauer & Co., whose beers sounds very interesting, Funky trout and Pretty Sperm Whale!

Had an imaginably titled, Funky Forelle Pils (Funky trout!) from the Brauer & Co from Leipzig in Germany, a fine beer, had good hoppy tastes and was nice to sip, too fine for the Crocodile beer of Sweden that still disappoints. Germans win again!

PreGame:

Ha ha well so much for tipping Germany, they got suckered punched in the opener by an extremely high octane Mexican team. It was a great game of football, with much of that football played by the men in green.

Germany were disappointing, I wonder if Low regrets leaving Leroy Sané back home, as they could have done with his pace and vision today.

They need to improve today up against a tough enough Sweden. Lose and they are out of the World Cup. That is unthinkable so I expect them to do the job today. Come on, it is Germany, they dont do first round exits. Never!

Sweden might have stamped their authority in the Korean game much quicker and should have got a second goal to ease off any pressure as Korea were really poor and offered little at all in the game. But they could have nicked it in the end but for Hwang missing a simple enough header.

I wonder if they didn’t get the penalty would they have scored from free play, ans their forward, Berg had about 3 seriously good chances to put the ball in the net and fluffed them all, poor stuff from him.

Sweden are a bit limited in what they can do. they defend well and are compact and hard to break down, but they will need to improve if they hope to nick a point off either Mexico, or a wounded Germany.

A more detailed review on Germany here and on Sweden here

Wow, what a game, a game of high stakes all in pressure, wow. Where do I even begin to start? Sweden were unlucky to let in the goal, had defended stoutly for most of the game, and put it up to the Germans. And fair dues to the Germans, looking dead and buried at half time, and even worse when Boateng stupidly got sent off, they somehow, somehow, managed to get a win in this game. How??????

German started off fine, stretching Sweden down both flanks, but Sweden showed they could be dangerous early on when Neuer made himself big for Berg to hit it straight at him when through. That was the big scare that should have woken the Germans up.

But it didn’t, and in the 32nd minute Toivonen was through, and somehow chipped Neuer from nearly an impossible angle, one nil to Sweden, oh heck! Claesson, later then had a great chance to make it two nil, but he was let down by a terrible first touch, on a 2 v 1 break. Tut tut.

I really couldn’t see how Germany could get back into this game. They were not playing well, had a load of passengers on the team and no leader on the pitch to drag them to victory. But luckily for them Reus was on target, in the right place at the right time, in the box to score level, just after the break.

Now surely Germany would ease to victory and get that second goal. Or so we thought, but the minutes started to tick away, and then Boateng got himself sent off for a silly reckless challenge. It was hard with 11, now it was going to be near impossible with only 10.

Gomez missed a point blank sitter, amazing really how he can call himself a striker, then Brandt hit the post with a long range effort, Robin Olsen the Swedish goalkeeper in between making a number of excellent saves. The Swedish back line were under all sorts of pressure. With only about 30 seconds of the allotted time left, Jimmy Durmaz, with the paedo like beard, gave a silly free kick away on the edge of the box. This was surely the last chance for the Germans, it was a tight enough angle but no bother for Kroos who, with a quick one two with Reus, smashed it over the wall into the net. Brilliant recovery from Germany, and they are still in this years World Cup. PHEW, my heart!

Music to get you in the mood

Nena ‎- 99 Luftballons (Germany) V Abba – Dancing Queen (Sweden)