they can and should beat the Germans.

Germany, without FBs, can cope with the lumbering French forwards.
Despite losing, Algeria provided a blueprint of how to nullify and beat them as Neuer rode his luck quite a bit.

France will beat them unless Loew changes it around or if they manage to somehow find another gear.

Germany are going to win this.

Germany has the better players, but if Löw continues to make poor team selections, France will be within a good chance of going through.

Looking forward to this. Will be a cracker.

Play Lahm at the FB position....
Germany should take this....
One thing going for France: Kos....That's what Germany is missing an athletic, pacy CB....Giroo comes off the bench...

Fully behind France for this.

Unless Loew plays Lahm as a full back, Germany have no chance.

The French look very strong at the back and very stable in midfield. Germany will struggle to break them down and they looked so open against the counter yesterday.

Hope Germany beat them well, it would so bug them.
I haven't seen France face a really strong side for a while now, it'll be interesting to see how they cope.
In their favour a lot of the German players looked wiped out after the Algeria game.

France are overrated. Looked every bit as bad against Nigeria as Germany did against Algeria.

Yeah, France may be considered well balanced with Kos anchoring the back, but the up front combo of Benzema/Giroud doesn't excite me at all....Pogba and pesky Valbuena are big assets, would like to see more of Griezmann...And I would give the nod to Deschamps over Lowe...Muller's stamina and end of game enthusiasm is huge...German midfield has to step it up, and put Lahm back where he belongs...Klose coming on in the 2nd half is something else to watch for....I guess I'm disappointed with Lowe with that amount of talent....As it's been mentioned (Clnc), his reputation has gradually diminished over the last couple of years....

Low is botching his tactics while he talent is bailing him out.

BFG, Özil and Poldi vs Kos, Giroud (and Debuchy?)

This will be very boring. I guarantee it

Germany will take a hammering if they use 4 CBs imo.

France playing Sakho ahead of Kos is worse than Germany playing Howedes (sp) at LB.

Bold Tone wrote:

France playing Sakho ahead of Kos is worse than Germany playing Howedes (sp) at LB.

Not really. Howedes is just not good enough.

I feel a shit CB against Muller/Klose is worse than a shit LB against whoever France play on the right.