BTW I do watch german league but only german league. i`ve seen Gomez as i`ve seen Guitha Benzema BenArfa (few examples). I can`t say he is better than any of them. Bundesliga is the league where Gekas and Amanatidis are considered good strikers !!!
I´m german, and a Kaiserslautern fan(Amanatidis` old team), and I live in Bochum(the team Gekas made 20 goals for). I can assure you, they are not considered good strikers. Not bad, but definitly not good. Bochum had noone else on offense, so they used Gekas as their focal point in their conter tactic(like Christiansen or Hashemian before him). And there´s a reason why Amanatidis played for 4 teams in 6 years.
And we don´t play bad. In fact, in the last 2-3 years, our national team played the best ball I´ve ever seen them play. Our slump began right before the euro with our 2-2 against Belarus, and it has a lot to do with Klose´s injury. He´s just too important for us. I never saw a smarter striker than him. He also started his careeer for my team, and watching him play was almost as if I played a computer game, seriously.
I´m not the biggest Gomez fan, but he´s definitly extraordinarily talented. He was player of the year 2007, led a mediocre and very young Stuttgart team to the title and made the most goals in that season...at age 21! As maestro said, it´s a very bad timing for him (at least I hope so).
As a german, I would love to see Ronaldo against Lahm. If you think he could slow Lahm down on offense, you´re in for a surprise. Lahm has no respect whatsoever in that regard, I have no doubt he would play the way he always does. In fact, to me, Lahm is our best player, better than Ballack or Klose.
That said, I don´t think we can beat Portugal. It will all depend on Klose. If he can dig himself out of his slump, we´ll win. My biggest concerns are Schweinsteiger, whom I consider to be a subpar player(tbh, I have no idea why he´s a player on the national team. Lazy, low ball IQ, selfish, weak technic, imo. His only Strengths are his game off the ball and his funny name), and that our coach has to sit in the viewers ranks(ridiculous decision, btw. Both coaches said they didn´t do anything other than to tell the fourth official they want to do their job). Oh, and of course that Frings is injured. Rolfes is good, but not in Frings class.
I guess I´ll have to hope that we show our old "suck and win" mentality and prove Lineker right, once again.
