Q-Finals 1 ~!~!

WC 2006 has reached the last 8 only 8 matches are left before the new world champion is crowned... Suprisingly all 8 of the teams come from different qualifying groups in round 1...

Group A - Germany

Group B - England

Group C - Argentina

Group D - Portugal

Group E - Italy

Group F - Brasil

Group G - France

Group H - Ukraine

Apart from France n Ukraine the rest finished top of their groups and in a world cup lacking suprises it is not a suprise to see all the traditional powerhouses still in the competition..

Preview of Q-F 1

Germany VS Argentina
2 X powerhouses meets here... Both are capable of winning the finals...

Results so far Germany @ WC
Group Stage:
Germany 4 - 2 Costa Rica
Germany 1 - 0 Poland
Germany 3 - 0 Ecudor

Round 2:
Germany 2-0 Sweden

Analysis:-
Germany has kept 3 straight clean sheets despite conceding 2 goals to lowly Costa Rica in the first match... Their defence still looks suspect though and they were lucky that sweden did not take their chances... With the support of the home crowd and clinical finishing from their deadly strikers they are able to overcome their weakness to march into this stage...

Klose with 4 goals and Podolski with 3 have formed a deadly partnership upfront and with an attacking minded midfield supporting them chances are bound to be in abudunce and the striking pair seems to have hit top form just in time for this WC... There are many tall players in the team who can head well too and this is a deadly weapon as well...

Germany's seems to lack quality on the bench and apart from its first XI there are no real threats that can be thrown in when the goin gets tough and the first teamers runs out of ideas...















Results so far Argentina @ WC
Group Stage:
Argentina 2 - 1 Ivory Coast
Argentina 6 - 0 S & M
Argentina 0 - 0 Holland

Round 2:
Argentina 2 - 1 Mexico (AET)

Analysis:-
Argentina came through the group of Death unbeaten conceding only 1 goal and impressed the whole world with their brand of soccer in their 6-0 demolition of S & M... their solid defence impressive teamwork and build up play has made them strong favorites to lift the cup for the fourth time in the history...

Many members of the squad have played with one another since the U-21 youth World Cup days and are very familiar with each other's playing style... The slow but highly talented Riquelme has matured and has emerged as the country's new no.10 spraying through passes effortlessly and his vision has created many goals in this competition so far The midfielders have been scoring goals too such as Maxi Rodrigues with 3 goals including the wonder stirke that sent Mexico packing and of coz Cambiasso with one of the goals of the WC...

The bench is very strong, Tevez, Messi, Aimar just to name a few are filled with world class players that can easily walk into many of the national teams and start as the XI...However they are not unbeatable and they show that they are quite vulnerable @ defending setpieces especially high balls as they are not really dat good @ headings...










Prediction:-

It will be a tough match for both sides and despite the strong home support argentina has too much fire power for the german wall to cope with even though the germans should be able to nick a goal through a header somewhere in the game...

Final Score:
2-1

Enuff said dats all for now...