Group D (Australia, Germany, Ghana, Serbia)

[Fernandinho]

german team have so many senior players in bad form and young kids in good form, it will be interesting to see what happens because quite regularly the players wont turn up all season from their club and all of a sudden then play for Germany and they score for fun... lets not forget German still have some players who are one of the finest in the world for their position.. Phllip Lahm, to an extent Bastian Schweinsteiger, Mezut Ozil will one day be one of the best in the world...

[Mostar]

Sorry fernandinho but my money is on Germany against Ozzies. Balack is big loss for them in terms of leadership but Bastian, Gomes, Podolski and Ozil are imo good enough to defeat down under. I don't think they are good enough to good all the way though.

[Fernandinho]

haha yeah I know, as soon as the draw was taken all i could say was "i cant wait till 2014"... but we do prosper as underdogs, we got through a group with brazil and croatia last world cup, but we had a better team back then as well.. this years team is last world cup four years older.... average age of the starting 11 is probably 31

edit:the average age is 31.45.... and if u exclude one player who is 28 then the average age is nearly 32... far too old for a world cup team especially without the quality of most others

[Mostar]

Never say never. You did make valid point about their success on the last WC (They should have reached the quarter-finals. It was non-existant penalty for Azzurri). If they do somehow draw against Germany they may be in the mix.

[Fernandinho]

yeah and interestingly about the last world cup, we would have had to play the Ukraine after Italy, and it is pure speculation, but I would have thought we could get passed the Ukraine and into the semis at Germany... what could have been lol

[MrsB]

[Fernandinho]

cool pic!

[Fernandinho]

so worried about the aussie game lol, mind you seeing all the other games have been low scoring borefests Austalia might have a chance, we are so good at playing negative football and somehow coming away with a result.. COME ON AUSTRALIA

[Kinell]

Germany 3 - 0 Ausfailia.

[Fernandinho]

Im so keen to feed you humble pie

[-V-]

Yeah as much as I don't rate Germany I still expect them to win this game.
Serbia should probably narrowly beat Ghana and the Slovenia game has draw written all over it surely.

[Darkon]

I have a bet down on serbia beating ghana with 1 goal and germany to beat australia with more than 1 goal, at 10x the money. I really feel that they will be the two teams coming through today.

[-V-]

Good luck

[Pablo]

Teams:

Serbia: Stojkovic, Ivanovic, Lukovic, Vidic, Kolarov, Krasic, Milijas, Stankovic, Jovanovic, Pantelic, Zigic.
Subs: Isailovic, Rukavina, Kacar, Tosic, Lazovic, Obradovic, Ninkovic, Petrovic, Subotic, Mrdja, Kuzmanovic, Djuricic.

Ghana: Kingson, Pantsil, Vorsah, John Mensah, Sarpei, Tagoe, Annan, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Andre Ayew, Asamoah, Gyan.
Subs: Adjei, Inkoom, Jonathan Mensah, Ken Smedley, Appiah, Muntari, Amoah, Rahim Ayew, Adiyah, Addy, Owusu-Abeyie, Ahorlu.

Will be interesting to see how Jovanovic does.

[Mostar]

Stojkovic is a very weak spot. If tested he may just be as good as Green.