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Originally Posted by loveissucide
They changed their style of play, brought through a new set of players and worked far harder at the top level than England did at WC 06 or the Euro 08 qualifiers, and have had a far stronger team spirit than England.
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They never changed their style of play and the squad remained practically the same. Two or three players dropped out through injury (Nowotny and Deisler) but it was the same pool of players that contested WC 2002 that lost 5:1 to England qualifying.
WC 2006 is not a good analogy as they were hosts and had home advantage, the only match that they shone in was the upset over Argentina apart from that they were quite ordinary but of course very fit. England had terrible keepers in their 2008 campaign and Germany didn`t.
I`ll grant that their will and team spirit are second to none and carries them well beyond their capabilities, and gets them to a huge amount of finals........Which more than often they lose.