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<blockquote data-quote="kamosa" data-source="post: 228298" data-attributes="member: 1037">I think we will be punished by the Germans if we don't try to control the ball and keep the posession game somewhere around 55%-45%.&nbsp;&nbsp; If the US plays another game like the Mexico game, against Germany, we'll all find out how good the German's are at finishing. Two problems the Germans will exploit that the Mexican could not.&nbsp; 1) the US isn't actually that strong in the air on the back line.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; European teams that are used to scoring through long balls and headers rake us over the coals.&nbsp;&nbsp; See Poland.2)&nbsp; We are better at one on one defending then at team defense.&nbsp; We match up well with the South American teams because they like to beat you one on one.&nbsp; We are good at that.&nbsp; What we don't do well is guard off of the ball.&nbsp; Both Korea and Poland were able to get lots of men free in the box to accept crosses, freekicks and corners.&nbsp; Unfortunatly I think the strengths of Germany and the German style of soccer exploit these two weaknesses.&nbsp; I hope I'm wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kamosa, post: 228298, member: 1037"] I think we will be punished by the Germans if we don't try to control the ball and keep the posession game somewhere around 55%-45%. If the US plays another game like the Mexico game, against Germany, we'll all find out how good the German's are at finishing. Two problems the Germans will exploit that the Mexican could not. 1) the US isn't actually that strong in the air on the back line. European teams that are used to scoring through long balls and headers rake us over the coals. See Poland. 2) We are better at one on one defending then at team defense. We match up well with the South American teams because they like to beat you one on one. We are good at that. What we don't do well is guard off of the ball. Both Korea and Poland were able to get lots of men free in the box to accept crosses, freekicks and corners. Unfortunatly I think the strengths of Germany and the German style of soccer exploit these two weaknesses. I hope I'm wrong. [/QUOTE]

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