Germany will win third successive title, or will it be third time lucky in Australia who is fighting for their second World Cup title? Although the chances appear quite similar, Germany is the only team in the championship has full-grown with every match, seems to produce incredible new in each outing.
The Aussies were considered favorites going into this championship, mostly because of their recent Champions Trophy achievement But the Germans have served a word of warning to remain undefeated. If the Australia goal-scoring skills were exemplified with 12-0 hammering of South Africa, Germany all round skills have come to the fore again and again.
Germany beat European champion England, 4-1 in Thursday’s semifinals, while Australia won 2-1 against the three-world champion in the Netherlands.
Germany’s young team hopes his big match nature to see the recent Australia, which has established little recompense for being among the best teams in the world in the last four decades, and won only one Olympic and one World Cup title.
“Our reliability has been an important factor in this tournament,” said the German captain Max Muller, who is in the middle of the most German players making their first outward show in the World Cup.
Matthias Witthaus Moritz Furst, Jan-Marco Montag are the only players from the 2006 champion team rear in Germany’s squad, which won the Olympic title in Beijing in 2008.
Traditional hockey powerhouses Australia have also been among the most constant in the last three decades. But with only one Olympic gold (2004) showing the taking away of the title win in London 24 years ago, it is clear that they tend to strangle in a disturbing rate.
Under Charlesworth, however, they have shown extraordinary decide in this World Cup. The only bug so far in the competition was the 3-2 defeat of England in the opening match. But they were positively better team today, creating 28 chances against only seven of England. If one factors in the umpiring errors, they were unsuccessful not to get at least one point.
