On Wednesday
Germany hosts
Argentina in a
friendly match at the Munich Allianz Arena. For both teams it´s the first important preliminary match in view of the FIFA World Cup 2010. Germany qualified as group winner for the final tournament in South Africa while Argentina managed their Word Cup ticket just in the last qualification game.
Germany - third of the World Cup 2006 - counts to the big title favourites at the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. They qualified as winner of UEFA Group 4 for the final tournament. Germany have won 8 of their 10 qualification games and remained unbeaten in all matches (8 wins, 2 draws). The German team scored 26 goals in 10 fixtures, half the goals scored the forwards Miroslav Klose (7 goals) and Lukas Podolski (6).
In contrast to Germany Argentina managed their World Cup ticket just in the last qualification games. Argentina have won the last two matches 2:1 against Peru and 1:0 at Uruguay and finished the South American qualifying group on rank 4. Argentina have won 8 of their 18 group games (8 wins, 4 draws, 6 defeats). The worst defeat was the 1:6 at Bolivia, at the same time the second match under manager Diego Maradona. Maradona´s statistic in the World Cup qualifier: 4 wins, 4 draws.
Germany and Argentina met 17-times in history. Germany have just a negative balance (5-5-7) but they won the last duel at the World Cup 2006 quarterfinal 4:2 after penalty shoot-out.
Germany vs Argentina
Friendly match
Wednesday, 03.03.2010, 20:45 CET
Munich, Allianz Arena
Possible line-ups:
Germany: Adler - Boateng, Mertesacker, Tasci, Lahm - Schweinsteiger, Ballack - T. Müller, Özil - Podolski, Klose
Argentina: Romero - Rodriguez, Demichelis, Samuel, Heinze - Mascherano - Veron - Gutierrez, di Maria - Messi, Higuain
My tip: Win Germany
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