Which Team Will Proceed to The Semis - Germany or Spain?

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Of course its gonna be Spain! Realistically... I'm going to say Germany has the greater chance for victory. They've been on a insane dominating spree lately, while Spain has difficulty beating any opponent by more than 1-0. But World Cup is all about winning games, no matter what's the scoreline. Because at the end of the day winning is all that matters, either you win 7-0 or 1-0, the fact of the matter is - that team won, and thats that, full stop.

 Having said that, of course, as a  fan, who would not want to see their team scores plenty of phenomenal goals? And to see all those goals on replay. I know I would!

  In my opinion, Vicente del Bosque has done a tremendous job of coaching Spain. Why?, because Spain is one of the favourites to win the coveted cup, and they had been on low-profile since the tournament started. To me, that is a sign of a winner. Take Italy and France in the 2006 World Cup. Nobody had ever thought that the two teams would ever meet in the Finals. One of the reason is that both teams played just well enough to proceed to the next stage, they dont show their might at the start of the tournament, but let it all out at the Final; because as I said earlier, winning the game is all that matters. For that Spain's coach has got to be credited.


Germany might have scored 4 goals in their last two games, but that does not mean that they can keep that track record. The Germans have been an extremely good team so far in the tournament and the
Spaniards have not yet played to their true potential. Fernando Torres has not scored yet,for a big game player I expect him to score in this tie.

SPAIN

Goalkeeper

1 Iker Casillas (C)

Defender

15 Sergio Ramos

3 Gerard Piqué

5 Carles Puyol

11 Joan Capdevila

Midfielder

6 Andrés Iniesta

16 Sergio Busquets

8 Xavi

14 Xabi Alonso

18 Pedro

Forward

7 David Villa

Substitutes

23 José Manuel Reina

22 Jesus Navas

21 David Silva

20 Javi Martínez

19 Fernando Llorente

17 Álvaro Arbeloa

13 Juan Mata

12 Víctor Valdés

10 Cesc Fábregas

9 Fernando Torres

4 Carlos Marchena

2 Raúl Albiol

GERMANY

Goalkeeper

1 Manuel Neuer

Defender

16 Philipp Lahm (C)

3 Arne Friedrich

17 Per Mertesacker

20 Jerome Boateng

Midfielder

15 Piotr Trochowski

6 Sami Khedira

8 Mesut Özil

7 Bastian Schweinsteiger

10 Lukas Podolski

Forward

11 Miroslav Klose

Substitutes

23 Mario Gomez

22 Hans-Jörg Butt

21 Marko Marin

19 Cacau

18 Toni Kroos

14 Holger Badstuber

12 Tim Wiese

9 Stefan Kießling

5 Serdar Tasci

4 Dennis Aogo

2 Marcell Jansen

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