The Defending Champion Germany Looking Forward To Their First Victory Against Mexico - Googly Mania

		
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
								
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
							
					
				
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
				
		
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        

	
        

        
        

        
        

	
        

        
        
		














		

    

    
        
        
        

The Defending Champion Germany Looking Forward To Their First Victory Against Mexico

All eyes will be on Germany as they start their journey to retain the world cup and in their first match, they will be facing Mexico. Germany travels to Russia 2018 aiming to become the first squad to win consecutive World Cup titles since Brazil accomplished the feat in 1962. Germany dominated during UEFA World Cup qualifying, going 10-0-0 to finish atop the Group C table while outgunning opponents by a stunning 43-4 margin. However, Die Mannschaft have struggled to maintain momentum in pre-tournament friendlies, settling for draws with England, France and Spain before dropping a pair of one-goal matches to Brazil and Austria. However, the squad rebounded to post a 2-1 win over Saudi Arabia as -5000 chalk last Friday. Germany has earned the win in each of their past six World Cup group-stage openers, but it will likely face a stiff challenge from a Mexican side that proved equally dominant during qualifying.

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El Tri surrendered just one goal while going 5-1-0 in qualifying and followed up with a trio of clean-sheet wins in pre-tournament friendly competition before enduring their current offensive slide, capped by a 2-0 loss to Denmark as +265 underdogs last Saturday.

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Mexico must now find a speedy remedy for their goalscoring drought if they are to tally the first-ever victory against Germany. El Tri has lost three straight to the Germans, including a 2-1 round-of-16 defeat in their lone previous World Cup clash in 1998. Germany manager Joachim Low says Germany is ready and looking forward to the match. Germany‘s warm-up friendlies against Austria and Saudi Arabia didn't quite showcase the true calibre of the squad overall, but rather they gave Löw and his coaching staff an opportunity to see where he can utilize different players in different situations. Despite the underwhelming results in both of the friendlies, Löw is confident that the preparations in camp for the Mexico match have been on point thus far.

Mexico is a fast and technically strong opponent. They can create tremendous pressure on the other side. Hence we can expect a great competitive match between the two sides and just pray for the best one to win.  So let's just look forward at today's match at 8:30.

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