Germany vs. Kazakhstan: Euro 2012 qualifiers – Preview
Joachim Low’s high flying Germany take on Miroslav Beranek’s Kazakhstan side in the Euro 2012 qualifier to be played at the Fritz-Walter Stadium in Kaiserslautern on Saturday, 26 March, 2011.
The reverse fixture in the campaign ended in a 3-0 win for the Germans with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lukas-Podolski-c22896 amongst the goal scorers.
Germany
Low’s side has carried on with good results after a third place finish in the FIFA World Cup 2010 in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/South-Africa-c757. They are currently leading the Group A with four wins out of four in the qualifying campaign and have scored a brilliant 13 goals thus far.
Germany are first in Group A with a total of 12 points ahead of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Austria-c2844.
The Die Mannschaft have played draws to Italy and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015 since the win over Kazakhstan in October 2010. They are unbeaten in their last five games and will be looking to further boost their chances of qualification by beating their opposition.
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Beranek’s side have had a miserable qualifying campaign and have lost all the four matches played thus far. They are at the bottom of the Group in sixth place and are yet to score their first goal of the qualifiers.
The Kazakhs played a draw recently with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Belarus-c2849 away from home in an international friendly and have lost four of the last five games played. They are virtually out of contention to qualify for the 2012 championship and will play for pride.
Team News
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Mario Gomez is expected to miss the clash through injury and Miroslav Klose is expected to play as the lone striker for the Germans. Lukas Podolski will play the role of the second striker whereas Thomas Muller and Mesut Ozil will play on the respective
wings.
Kazakhstan
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Captain-c8314 Andrei Karpovich will partner Azat Nurgaliev in the centre of midfield.
Players to watch
Miroslav Klose
The Bayern Munich striker is two caps away from becoming the second most capped player for the country and is ten goals shy of becoming Germany’s top goal scorer. The veteran will be looking to carry on with the form he had been in the 2010 World Cup.
Sergei Khizhnichenko
The 19-year-old Atyrau striker has already impressed with performances for his country and has scored three goals in the ten games he has played in. The stage is set for the youngster and he will be looking to add to the goals and fight for a good result.
Prediction
Germans have been in scintillating form of late and a lot of goals will be expected from this clash of the top versus the bottom sides. Kazakhstan have been in very poor form in the campaign and Germany will take full advantage of that.
The Die Mannschaft have the quality players to get the results and will thrash the Kazakhs with a
4-0 score line.
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