England vs Germany 2007 Preview

On 22 August 2007, England is going to play against Germany in an international friendly match in Wembley stadium. The fans are excited about the match and the media of both the countries are highlighting the match even from one week ago. The bad news is that because of injuries, the fans will miss some key players and that will make the two teams weak. However, that will not take away the excitement from the fans. They will want their teams to triumph in the match. Here, is a detailed preview of the match.

German Squad

Squad: T Hildebrand (Valencia), J Lehmann (Arsenal); A Friedrich (Hertha Berlin), C Fritz (Werder Bremen), M Jansen (Bayern Munich), P Lahm (Bayern Munich), P Mertesacker (Werder Bremen), C Metzelder (Real Madrid), S Tasci (Stuttgart); R Hilbert (Stuttgart), T Hitzlsperger (Stuttgart), S Khedira (Stuttgart), S Rolfes (Bayer Leverkusen), B Schneider (Bayer Leverkusen), B Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), P Trochowski (Hamburg); P Helmes (Cologne), S Kiessling (Bayer Leverkusen), M Klose (Bayern Munich), K Kuranyi (Schalke)

England Squad

Goalkeepers: Paul Robinson (Tottenham), David James (Portsmouth), Scott Carson (Aston Villa).

Defenders: Micah Richards (Manchester City), Wes Brown (Manchester United), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), John Terry (Chelsea), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Sol Campbell (Portsmouth), Steven Taylor (Newcastle), Phil Neville (Everton), Nicky Shorey (Reading).

Midfielders: David Beckham (Los Angeles Galaxy), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Joe Cole (Chelsea), Shaun Wright-Phillips (Chelsea), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Gareth Barry (Aston Villa), Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough), Kieron Dyer (West Ham), Owen Hargreaves (Manchester United).

Strikers: Alan Smith (Newcastle), Michael Owen (Newcastle), Peter Crouch (Liverpool), Darren Bent (Tottenham), Andrew Johnson (Everton), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham).

Live in ESPN for Asian Viewers

Fortunately, for the people living in Asia, there is a good news. England vs Germany match of 22 August will be broadcast live in ESPN channel on that day. The match will take place at 2 am of 23^rd August of India time and 2:30 am of 23^rd August 2007 Bangladesh time. For your timing, you should visit Espnstar website and then find your schedule.

I am very happy that ESPN is going to broadcast this match live. The good news is that if you can not remain awake so late then you can watch the match later on 23^rd August day time. So, be with ESPN on that day and watch live England vs Germany match.

http://www.espnstar.com/tvtimes/tvtimes_index.jsp

This is the link you should visit.

England vs Germany 2007 without Michael Ballack

The bad news for Germany is that German Captain Michael Ballack will not be able to play the match because of injury. You know that Michael Ballack is a player of English club Chelsea and he is experienced about English league. His experience would help the German team a lot. Unfortunately, he has been suffering from ankle injury and he has not sill become ok. So, it will be bad for the German team to miss one of their key players in the match.

Online Live Scores

I know that though many of you are keen to watch the match, some of you will not be able to watch the match on television because your personal or professional business. Thinking of the passionate supporters, I am now giving some website links that provide online live scores of international and major league matches below:
Goal.com
Live-football-scores
Sportpress
Footie Scorez
Live Score
Goalzz

It is true that some notable players are injured and that will take away some of the beauty of the match. However, this match is important for both the countries as we have just less than one year before Euro 2008 and both England and Germany would want to win that tournament. So, both the countries want to win this match and feel good about their position in European football.