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Germany vs Turkey Live Streams and TV Channels
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| International | UEFA Match Centre »live stream |
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| Argentina | ESPN Cono Sur |
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| British Virgin Islands | ESPN Caribbean |
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| Colombia | ESPN Cono Norte |
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| Spain | GOL T |
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| Uruguay | ESPN Cono Sur |
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Germany vs Turkey Delayed and Repeat Broadcasts
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| United States | Fri, Oct 08 18:00pm | ESPN Deportes |
| Argentina | Sat, Oct 09 10:55am | ESPN Cono Sur |
| Australia | Fri, Oct 08 22:45pm | Setanta Sports Australia |
| Sun, Oct 10 19:00pm | Setanta Sports Australia | |
| Tue, Oct 12 8:45am | Setanta Sports Australia | |
| Fri, Oct 08 20:30pm | ESPN 2 Caribbean | |
| Bolivia | Sat, Oct 09 10:55am | ESPN Latin America Andina |
| Caribbean | Fri, Oct 08 20:30pm | ESPN 2 Caribbean |
| Chile | Sat, Oct 09 10:55am | ESPN Latin America Andina |
| Ecuador | Sat, Oct 09 19:00pm | ESPN Cono Norte |
| United Kingdom | Fri, Oct 08 17:00pm | ESPN UK / HD |
| Sat, Oct 09 5:30am | ESPN UK / HD | |
| Sat, Oct 09 12:45pm | ESPN UK / HD | |
| Uruguay | Sat, Oct 09 10:55am | ESPN Cono Sur |
| Venezuela | Sat, Oct 09 19:00pm | ESPN Venezuela |
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Germany vs Turkey Match Preview
Germany takes on Turkey but is definitely not the clear favourite.
Germany will take on Turkey as their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign resumes. The game promises to be tough.
Plenty of Turkish immigrants live in Germany; plenty of them support both the German and Turkish national team. Apparently, a large number of home fans will be rooting for the Turks if some recent reports arriving out of Germany are to be believed.
The Altintop brothers know very little football outside the world of the Bundesliga; they both grew up in Germany’s industrial Ruhr Area and currently, Halil plays for Frankfurt and Hamit for Bayern. Yet, they opted to play for Turkey. Nuri Sahin also decided to represent Turkey rather than Germany. Mesut Oezil, who has Turkish roots grew up in Germany and decided to play for the country where he learnt his football.
Germany was dealt a major blow with news that Bastian Schweinsteiger, their defensive midfielder will have to sit out both the qualifiers against Turkey and Kazakhstan with injury. Joachim Loew has said that Basti’s replacement is most likely one of the three: Thomas Mueller, Toni Kroos and Christian Träsch.
Mueller has no experience of playing in that position whatsoever while Träsch is the only one to have experience in that role. Kroos can also play there but does not regularly play in defensive midfield. Another notable exception for Germany is Marcell Jansen, who as usual is unwell. One has to feel sorry for Jansen due to the innumerous niggling problems he has to deal with.
Despite the fact that Loew said that he will use Jerome Boateng and Heiko Westermann primarily in central defence, reports suggest that he will start Holger Badstuber who he praised recently.
Turkey will be without Arda Turan due to a groin injury he picked up in a training session.
Turkey Squad:
Goalkeepers: Volkan Demirel, Hakan Arikan, Onur Recep Kivrak, Cenk Gonen
Defenders: Gokhan Gonul, Sabri Sarioglu, Omer Endrogan, Ibrahim Toraman, Servet Cetin, Ceyhun Gulselam, Ismail Koybasi, Hakan Kadir Balta.
Midfielders: Hamit Altintop, Mehmet Aurelio, Necip Uysal, Emre Belozoglu, Nuri Sahin, Selcuk Inan, Ozer Hurmaci.
Forwards: Tuncay Sanli, Halil Altintop, Semih Senturk, Mevlut Erdinc, Nihat Kahveci, Sercan Yildirim.
Germany Squad:
Goalkeepers: Rene Adler, Manuel Neuer, Tim Wiese
Defenders: Holger Badstuber, Jerome Boateng, Philipp Lahm, Per Mertesacker, Sascha Riether Heiko Westermann
Midfielders: Kevin Grosskreutz , Sami Khedira, Toni Kroos, Marko Marin, Thomas Mueller, Mesut Özil , Lukas Podolski , Christian Träsch
Strikers: Cacau, Mario Gomez, Miroslav Klose
The last time these two sides met happened to be an absolutely nerve-wrecking European Championship semifinal in 2008 where the world momentarily lost the pictures in their screens. Miroslav Klose’s goal was announced but couldn’t be seen live because of the “black-out”. Germany won the tie 3-2 despite having only three shots on target compared to Turkey’s eleven. Turkey dominated the Germans for most of the match but Lahm ended the Turkish hopes by scoring at the death when Turkey virtually had no time to reply.
The game promises to be a very entertaining affair as both sides will attack each other and try to break each other down. After all, this clash is much more than just a qualifier.
Prediction: Germany will need some luck to win but they will come through at the end.
Final Score: Germany 1-0 Turkey.
Germany vs Turkey Match Report
The last time these two sides met resulted in a five-goal thriller with efficiency being the cause behind the victory; but this time there was to be no such thriller. Germany brushed Turkey aside, 3-0, in Berlin to maintain their perfect record of three wins in three qualifiers. The Germans have scored ten goals and conceded just one.
Klose celebrates one of his two goals.
First Half
Germany was the better side in the first half. Miroslav Klose, the man who has scored five of Germany’s ten goals, sent an early header wide. Sami Khedira and Toni Kroos, the replacement for Bastian Schweinsteiger, agonizingly saw their efforts fail to find the back of the net. In the 24th minute, Turkey lost one of their most important players, Mehmet Aurelio to injury. He had to be substituted.
Turkey held their own but Germany finally broke the deadlocking in the 43rd minute. Philipp Lahm, who put in a brilliant performance on the night, sent a lovely cross into the box. Thomas Mueller rose to head the ball between two defenders. Volkan Demirel, with the help of the bar and the post, kept the ball out. However, Klose was on hand to head in the rebound. Per Mertesacker missed a very good chance before the half came to an end as he sent his header wide.
Second Half:
Germany was dominant; but things might have been different had Halil Altintop not missed a golden chance to equalize. The German central defence went to sleep leaving Altintop in a one-on-one situation with Manuel Neuer. Neuer saved superbly. Germany found their second when on a counter-attack, Lahm found Mesut Özil with a delightful ball. The German, who has Turkish roots, put the ball into the back of the net but did not celebrate.
Turkey really could not find a way back despite the fact that they put the German defence under pressure. The defence had Heiko Westermann at left-back and Holger Badstuber pairing Per Mertesacker in central defence. The Germans put the icing on the cake in the 87th minute. A Demirel pass was intercepted by Miroslav Klose who raced towards goal and calmly sent the ball in between Demirel’s legs into the back of the net.
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