and now Germany

Possibly the biggest news on the injury front of both squads is Germany’s loss of number one ‘keeper Robert Enke who broke his hand in practice and will be replaced by Bayer Leverkusen man, Rene Adler. With Germany being disappointed against Finland, coming out with only a draw this match takes a massive importance and Guus Hiddink intends on going the attack for goals.

However the injury woes is certainly not only Germany’s as Russia will be without Roman Pavlyuchenko, Dmitri Torbinski and Denis Kolodin. Diniar Bilyaletdinov is equally questionable and if unable to play CSKA Moscow eighteen year-old phenom Alan Dzagoev will step-up. Joachim Low’s attacking trident f Miroslav Klose, Mario Gomez and Lukas Podolski will be up against Russia’s back-line heartily supported by number one Igor Akinfeev.

Enjoy the match and I will report on it as it concludes.