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Originally Posted by Locke
The Germans are clinical, but I dont necessarily agree with the rest. Who are the Dutch really missing? Van der Vaart and Van Persie are the only ones I can think of.
Germany could say the same thing by not playing their Captain, Philip Lahm, leaving out Bastian Schweinsteiger and not playing Mario Gomez their top scorer.
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For Germany having the so called "B" squad would probably actually make then better for a friendly like this.
Unlike most of the other top nations Germany always seems to have intense competition to make the starting 11, where as others tend to have the set 11.
It is this competition to be on the starting team that has always made Germany so dominant in friendlies.
Players are not willing to even take a small, inconsequential, friendly lightly because they know if they don't perform they will lose their spot in the squad.