But you wouldn't really would you?
* 01 Neuer
* 03 Friedrich Yellow card
* 16 Lahm Captain
* 17 Mertesacker
* 20 Boateng
* 06 Khedira
* 07 Schweinsteiger
* 08 Ozil (Kiessling, 83)
* 10 Podolski
* 11 Klose (Gomez, 72)
* 13 Muller (Trochowski, 72)
England
* 01 James
* 02 G Johnson Yellow card (Wright-Phillips, 87)
* 03 A Cole
* 06 Terry
* 15 Upson
* 04 Gerrard Captain
* 08 Lampard
* 14 Barry
* 16 Milner (J Cole, 63)
* 10 Rooney
* 19 Defoe (Heskey, 71)
The only German players worth considering are Ozil, Podolski and Muller. They have 2 average center backs, 1 great full back ( A.Cole is even better) an average midfield and once again an average strike force. Difference is they play collectively.
What are you smoking, of those teams from England I'd take Rooney, Lampard, Terry, Cole, then one German CB, Lahm over Johnson whose god damned horrific defensively, Schweinsteiger, Pod, Muller, Ozil. Thats only because Terry is probably, with the right partner as good as the German CB's, theres 20 better CB's at the world cup alone to be honest, I'd take any Swiss CB, Senderos included over the Terry that played today. Held Spain, and went out of the last world cup without conceding a single goal till penalties in the knockout rounds, which is a fantastic achievement, England weren't close to that kind of defensive performance.
99% of unbiased people would take a majority German force if trying to make the best 11 out of both, I'd also as a manager drop Rooney and take Klose based on the fact that the german frontline/attack plays well together and Rooneys never played with them.
What you're mistaking with whose better is, who you know better because they play in the premier league because you watch it, and whose the bigger household name, two criteria that seem to have picked our squad for the past decade while failing miserably. Most of the German side was better than the England squad.
AS for complaining about 2-2 being a different game, it wouldn't have been, up till 2-1 the Germans were cruising, the goal came out of nowhere and they had an off 5-10 minutes, half time was the difference, not 2-1 or 2-2.
They have a manager capable of motivating or just effecting the players, they came out calm, collected and like the team right up till 2-1, they played the second half like all but 10 minutes of the first half.
The only thing that effected their game at all was the surprise of the England goal out of nowhere, the fact is at 2-2 they still would have had half time to calm down and get their heads back in the game and when they did that, they were simply so massively better than England they would have still won. England were NEVER in this game, ever, they weren't close, we were so outplayed in every position, in every situation, in every area of the pitch it was a joke.
Even worse, had Germany been desparate for a goal to win, they would not have brought on Heskey, nor SWP as a right back for the injured and useless JOhnson(personally it seemed like a "I really don't want to be out here anymore, lets fake an injury" injury to me but maybe I'm too cynical). They would have brought on quality players.
Its the wishful thinking when we beat some utter turd team at home 2-1 after going a goal down in qualifiers that makes people think the same team can continue to not improve but somehow win a cup, and its that same pathetic excuse making that somehow if that goal had been scored we'd have won the game, let alone the cup. Get over it, be realistic, the team was a complete shambles, even Ashley Cole was hung out to dry by the support around him from Gerrard as the missing left winger, to Barry the missing covering DM when required, to Upson the missing CB.
