The German Move

It's half-time in Germany x Australia and the score is 2-0. To be honest i was hoping for more "fight" from the australians - they just stand there and wait ...

Germany has a good team but we can only be sure when they face a better opponent (no offense for Australia). Two things are very interesting in Germany's style of play :

1. they make "speed passes" not only to the sides but also to the middle, which is very good;
2. they use an interesting move (not sure if on purpose) - when attacking the striker stays offside but a pass is made to the line where a player enters in speed (hence no offside for the striker) and afterwards this player centers and the "once offside but not any more" striker receives and shoots.

Really interesting as it gives advantage to the team whilst confusing the opponent's defense (that most of the time argues an offside).

Nice team from a country that was once great (nowadays products from Germany are only "engineered" there but sort of manufactured in "indo-china" assembly-line-countries). Let us just hope they don't disappoint me in soccer too.