Algeria looked very poor, possibly lacking a leader I thought? Maybe they shouldn’t have dropped the skipper the day before their first game? Slovenia were tidy with the ball but neither side seemed to want to really go for the win until late on and ultimately it was another goalkeeping blunder that cost Algeria. Stupidity seems to be behind most of the send off’s so far, at least one of the yellows has been avoidable on every occasion, at least the refs are being consistant. I do though suspect they will ease of a little once we have had one round of games.
The Serbia Ghana game raised the excitement levels, I was impressed with the pair of them, Ghana have amazing physicality and power and the Serbs enough technical ability to worry anyone. Sadly for them their giant Zigic couldn’t get on the end of anything and their centre half had a moment of madness in giving away the pen.
Now onto the best side we have seen so far, the Germans, some journalists have been critical of the Aussies and to be far they were poor, but you can only beat what is put in front of you and Germany did it bloody well! They moved the ball with pace and precision and if they had a better finisher than Klose they’d have had six or seven.
Mesut Ozil ran things but I was impressed with Sami Khedira, only playing due to Ballack’s absence, his passing was superb and England should learn lessons from the Germans use of the ball. At the back Badstuber was a great foil for Lahm who raided forward at every opportunity. Mertesacker is, and was a giant at the back last night.
I only have one issue with the Germans and that is the fact they are second only to the English cricket team for nicking players from elsewhere:
Miroslav Klose born Poland
Lukas Podolski born Poland
Cacau born Brazil
Mesut Ozil and Serdar Tasci are Turkish
Dennis Aogo has Nigerian parents.
At present I have three correct results from eight games but no correct scorelines, lets see how day four goes?
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