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Ukraine vs Germany Match Preview

Joachim Loew had wished to try out a two striker system in one of the two friendlies. However, he might be unable to do so against Ukraine as one of his forwards, Miroslav Klose is out injured. He will seemingly recover in time to play the Dutch though. Another player who has been unable to feature for the national side regularly due to his knack of getting injured or falling ill right after a call-up is Marco Reus.

Unsurprisingly, Reus has the flu. He confirmed that he will not take part in the friendly against Ukraine. He might return for the friendly against the Dutch.

Bayern and Germany captain Philipp Lahm has been given a break for Germany and will not feature in either of the friendlies. Manuel Neuer has been given a break for the match against Ukraine. Bastian Schweinsteiger is out of both friendlies due to the injury he picked in the Champions League against Napoli.

The highly rated Ron Robert-Zieler is on his way to a debut for his country. Tim Wiese might feature as well. In Schweinsteiger’s absence, Toni Kroos is the most likely candidate to take over. Loew did use Simon Rolfes not too long ago. With the ongoing problems at Leverkusen and with him not starting regularly, Kroos will perhaps get the nod over the Bayer 04 captain.

With Lahm absent, Marcel Schmelzer should be a shoe-in to start. The usual question about the right-back spot is set to resume again. Who Loew will try out this time is anyone’s guess. Mario Götze and Mesut Özil are set to play together against Ukraine.

This is what Loew has had to say about the friendlies: “There's still a fairly long time to go until the intensive preparations for the (Euro) finals begin, but we only have three games in that period. We'll certainly be experimenting a bit with the line-up and tactics, although some aspects of our game are already pretty fine-tuned.”

This is what Kroos had to say: “There's no such thing as a friendly for us, so want to win these two games as well. Just because we've qualified for the finals doesn't mean we're going to ease off now.”

Ukraine is hosting the Euro in 2012. As they automatically qualified, they have had to use friendlies to test themselves. This game will be one of the best tests so far even though it comes against a weakened German side.

Here are the squads:

Germany:

Goalkeepers: Tim Wiese (Werder Bremen) Ron-Robert Zieler (Hanover)

Defenders: Dennis Aogo (Hamburg) Holger Badstuber (Bayern München) Jerome Boateng (Bayern München) Benedikt Höwedes (Schalke) Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund) Per Mertesacker (Arsenal) Marcel Schmelzer (Borussia Dortmund) Christian Träsch (Wolfsburg)

Midfielders: Lars Bender (Bayer Leverkusen) Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund) Sami Khedira (Real Madrid) Toni Kroos (Bayern München) Thomas Muller (Bayern München) Mesut Özil (Real Madrid) Simon Rolfes (Bayer Leverkusen)

Forwards: Cacau (Stuttgart) Mario Gomez (Bayern München) Lukas Podolski (Köln) Andre Schürrle (Bayer Leverkusen)

Ukraine:

Goalkeepers: Andrei Dykan (Spartak Moscow/RUS), Alexander Rybka (Shakhtar Donetsk)

Defenders: Bogdan Butko (Mariupol), Alexander Kucher, Yaroslav Rakitsky (both Shakhtar Donetsk), Vitaly Mandzyuk (Dnepropetrovsk), Yevgeny Selin (Vorskla Poltava), Artem Fedetsky (Karpaty Lviv), Yevgeny Khacheridi (Dynamo Kiev)

Midfielders: Alexander Aliev, Denis Garmash, Oleg Gusev, Andrei Yarmolenko (all Dynamo Kiev), Alexei Gai (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yevgeny Konoplyanka, Ruslan Rotan (both Dnepropetrovsk), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Bayern München), Sergei Nazarenko (Tavria Simferopol)

Forwards: Roman Bezus (Vorskla Poltava), Andrei Voronin (Dynamo Moscow), Marko Devic (Metalist Kharkiv), Artem Milevsky, Andrei Shevchenko (both Dynamo Kiev)

Ukraine vs Germany Match Report

Thus the Germany line-up looked unusual. The captain of the night was Mario Gomez for Germany. Ukraine came in with a plan to counter-attack and mostly executed good ones. Germany’s game as usual was based on possession. Unfortunately, due to the tendency of the back four to come forward, they were often caught out in the match.

A bit of experience was injected into the team in the second half and Germany came out with a 3-3 draw in a game which was highly entertaining and which either side could have won. Germany had more chances to do so but Ukraine had the better chances to come out on top.

The first half saw the Germans dominate mostly only to be caught out by ruthless counter-attacks. The first goal came when Artem Milevsky received a pass from Andrey Shevchenko, raced down the left flank and cut back for Andrey Yarmolenko. Mats Hummels tried to stop the pass from Milevsky but was unable to do so. Ron-Robert Zieler was left exposed and futilely tried to crawl back to stop Yarmolenko’s shot from close range.

Ukraine’s second also came due to the Germans over-committing to the attack. With Toni Kroos and Sami Khedira as well as most of the back-line well in Ukraine’s half, a counter-attack was bound to catch the Germans out. Hummels tried to pass to Kroos in the penalty area. His pass was intercepted. The ball was played to Yevgeny Konoplyanka who raced more than two-thirds of the pitch unchallenged and beat Zieler easily.

Two minutes later, Germany halved the deficit when Kroos, one of the brighter spots for Germany on the night, took matters into his own hands. When his pass was deflected by a Ukrainian back to him, he sent in a ferocious shot from outside the penalty area past the helpless Alexander Rybka. The distance the ball travelled was some 25 yards.

Shortly afterwards, a Mario Gomez header was mishandled by Rybka and almost crossed the line. The keeper managed to just gather at the last moment and save his blushes.

Germany’s thought of going into the break at 2-1 was taken away by Sergey Nazarenko. Nazarenko was subbed into the match just about three minutes earlier in place of Roman Bezus. His shot from about 30 yards out behind Zieler much more easily than it should have.

The second half was dominated by Germany just as the first. Loew brought in Simon Rolfes for Khedira to bring more defensive stability to the pitch. The experienced Leverkusen captain did just that. For good measure, he also scored a goal. Following a shot from Hummels, the ball came to him and he bundled it into the net from close range. Andre Schürrle was introduced in place of Träsch at the beginning of the half as well.

With the clock ticking down, Loew introduced the ‘veteran’ Lukas Podolski and Thomas Mueller. Mueller duly scored the equalizer when he took the ball past two defenders and shot at goal. Rybka’s outstretched leg could not deny the Germans a well deserved equalizer.

Lars Bender came on for Kroos in the 87th minute. In the 88th minute, Cacau, who had replaced Gomez earlier, hit a good shot towards goal but was just about denied by Rybka. In two furious minutes of injury time, both sides went searching for the winner. Ukraine was denied by the fantastic Hummels.

Germany next plays the Netherlands on the 15th of November.

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