re: Excellent article on Germany

He said that the 4-2-3-1 is way too defensive for his tastes. I would imagine he would prefer a full time defensive mid at that spot and let Basti play ahead, since he's always the smartest player on the field.

I would love to see it succeed but there are so many question marks. If you want to get Kroos on the field, Basti would have to play the defensive mid and you can pair Ozil and Kroos up, which would be pretty sick.

Your two outside mids in that formation would probably drift inside a whole lot, I'm guessing it would be a combination of Poldi, Muller, Reus, Gotze. Which would mean you'd need solid contributions from your fullbacks... you know you're getting it from Lahm, but what about the other side.. Schmelzer? Maybe.

Then you'd have Klose and Gomez to play striker.


It would be a very attacking lineup, that's for sure.