England v Germany - World Cup 2010 - BBC Build-Up

Struggling to get this to record in 16:9 atm so you'll have to enjoy in 4:3

[@kidkieran77]

It's laughable how much better the German team was to the English one yet Alan Hansen seemed to think it would be a walkover for England. Anybody who at that point wasn't scared of Oezil hadn't been watching him play. From 2009-2013 he was one of the best players in the world.

[@keithwellerlounge74]

I remember thinking it was a ridiculous comment even before the match. I knew we would lose.

[@paulchristopher8634]

The golden generation who achieved nothing

[@AB-sg5wn]

You had a 29 year old Ashley Cole running back with a cigarette in his mouth ​@paulchristopher8634

[@rohithraman6488]

9:37 What Gary Lineker said there just shows how far behind England were compared to Germany at the time Capello played a rigid 4-4-2, which was outdated, and Gary was trying to find a way to describe the modern 4-2-3-1 which was relatively alien in England "He's got a different sort of system he sort of plays the two holding players and three a bit further forward behind the striker of Klose" that's called a 4-2-3-1

[@guitarreilly]

As a massive England fan this was a well deserved hammering we got form Germany. Completely predictable as well. We were awful all tournament and Germany were very powerful and dynamic. It was a watershed moment as after this we never expected anything again

[@johnmenton6688]

I think the jokers in the studio did the scouting 😂

[@BeatleMark85]

Euro 2012 - We were average at best WC 2014 - Dreadful Euro 2016 - Say no more Post 2016 though things have been looking better....

[@SuperTed19021]

For Germany, a World Cup victory (which featured them thumping Brazil 7-1 at home) was soon to come. For England, Iceland's coming (featuring many of these great seasoned players).

[@SuperTed19021]

@@BeatleMark85 When you compare this to losing only on penalty kicks to win the European Championships last year, I would agree things *have* looked up.

[@rohithraman6488]

@@BeatleMark85 Euro 2012 we had one good performance against Sweden. And that was pretty much it

[@carlybishop6160]

So interesting watching this. The feel of everything is so different to now and in so many ways.

[@rohithraman6488]

Exactly, we may have lost the final but this seems like a distant memory

[@ThatBritishSnep]

"David James, yet to concede in this World Cup, of course" They really didn't know what was about to hit us xD

[@rohithraman6488]

BBC pundits and commentators jinxed us in 2010 and 2014 2010 - David James yet to concede at the world cup 2014 - Jonathan pearce jinxes England at the world cup draw

[@forhadahmed4643]

many many thanks for keeping these memory saved...

[@Onmysheet]

The ignorance from these pundits is unbelievable.

[@jamesgolightly5320]

Their defence was poor on paper

[@ThatBritishSnep]

Alan Hansen: "England have the better players" And that same team drew to the United States and Algeria!

[@Onmysheet]

@@ThatBritishSnep And didn't qualify for Euro 2008.

[@ThatBritishSnep]

@@Onmysheet bloody Scott Carson lol

[@rohithraman6488]

@@ThatBritishSnep just a question, do some people think that because Hansen is Scottish and not English, he can get away with being ignorant and dismissive of Germany before a game against England, but when English pundits say the same thing they get slammed for their arrogance

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

"England have better players, I think they'll win." This was always the problem. Pundits deluded into thinking England were better than anyone else. But I always took those kind of comments with a pinch of salt. Looking at this Germany team like i did at the time, they were a very good side but Hansen rubbished them as "average"?? England had struggled during the group stages and now they were going to beat Germany? Hansen talks about England passing the ball well against Slovenia? These are paid pundits. Unbelievable. And very strange..

[@JoshuaMSP1995]

Worth remembering that Germany had also struggled in the group stages of this one, losing to Serbia and scraping past Ghana.

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

@@JoshuaMSP1995 They were still an excellent side and I don't think they deserved quite the bashing some of the pundits gave them.

[@SuperTed19021]

A good amount of the Germany team struck 4 goals against England in the U21 final just an year prior. The only one of that English rank of 2009 that made any step up to the seniors was James Milner.

[@Nihilanth1982]

any chance for the post-match for this one please?

[@PAKCRICFAN1]

Yes please post match

[@cannedham8630]

Certainly wasn't an average Germany side, they'd reached the last 4, 4 years previous to that in 2006, finalists to a very strong Spain 2 years before in 2008 Euros. A lot of that starting 11 the summer before won the U21 Euros! England on the other hand were useless back then, very predicable in tournaments and spineless for a good 30 yeara prior

[@youngstars4144]

watching 41:15 in 2022 just hits differently

[@Bcfc-rv7yi]

‘Have we seen the best of frank in this tournament Harry?’ ‘ no not yet in this tournament’ That just about sums up Frank Lampards England career, he went missing every time he put on an England shirt in a major tournament. He had a quite pitiful England career in truth.

[@81chipper89]

He did very well in Euro 2004, but that was it.

[@kailashpatel1706]

Lampard, no pace, no dribbling ability ,no great skill, no acceleration..had a good strike on him though...

[@lukebullen705]

Same as Rooney. Utterly hopeless for England

[@lukei1]

Please tell me you have the halftime and post match analysis as well, this is hilarious

[@badabing8884]

I think after Capello the FA must have thought we might as well lose with an English manager. Same result, just with an Englishman in charge. This is the problem with our mentality: “we are due a win v Germany.” Eh? Since when? Just sheer entitlement! You have to earn it on the field over 90/120 mins and if you don’t it comes down to a test of nerve of penalties. England have yet to earn it at the World Cup since 1966. This match wasn’t even close despite the usual moaning of whether Lampard’s goal should have been allowed (of course it should have) but I look at what happened afterwards and there was no real reaction from the England side.

[@Abnsdllnnlosnfd]

7:19 "England will be playing 4-4-fucking-2!" (with Gerrard on the left😂)

[@LeeBeardshall]

Gerrard wasn't left winger capella was stubborn.

[@dararohan1209]

Describing this Germany as eminently beatable (containing Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Podolski, Klose etc.) is sheer arrogance.

[@SuperTed19021]

Plus at *least* 6 players who pulverized the England U21 just 12 months before.

[@davinnicode]

2010 Germany was more dominant than 2014. Of course only a team of a century like Spain prevented them to win more titles

[@megazard5249]

​@@davinnicodeTechnically Italy stopped them in 2012. 🤔

[@lfcspectre4335]

I always wondered, if they were actually at South Africa or was that green screen behind them?

[@NoName-jq7tj]

“Guess it’s going to be the same old story”. And it was.

[@jackmellor5536]

England fever 😆 watching it in 2021 you can't watch it in the same way.

[@samiyaijazprs]

Thinking the same thing 😂 gives off Covid vibes

[@adilsomtavares1256]

Gerrard 😍

[@basedelon]

I remember this live broadcast all too well. Hansen, Shearer, Harry, every one of them dismissed Germany. Germany were just a fly on the windscreen, a pushover, no threat. I had bookmarked the young Germany team of WC 2006 (who Hansen described here as 'average') to eventually win the World Cup (which they did in '14 with these same players). But what do I know about football, it's not like I won the league with Blackburn or the European Cup with Liverpool!

[@alexkrycek21]

Hmm. Germany were in the Euro 2008 final whereas England never made it to the tournament. In the 2010 World Cup they were unlucky not to make the final and then 4 years later they won it. This was a brilliant Germany side which should have won more. I remember after this game Shearer said the Germans must think we are mugs by the fact they said England had the better team. Germany are probably wishing they had an international side like this today.

[@davinnicode]

Definitely! We have been absolute rubbish since 2016. Our FA and media are still deludedly thinking we are able to compete.

[@kailashpatel1706]

I hope Alan recovers from sickness but i wonder if his comments reflected too long on a BBC channel..

[@alanchamberlain9902]

The disrespect to Germany from these biased English pundits. Germany absolutely destroyed them. Klose, Muller, Schweinsteger, Lahm, Khedira and prime Ozil etc average? This Germany team made it to the semis only losing narrowly to Spain the winners. And then they went and won the next one in 2014. England have the most arrogant media, remember Iceland in 2016 too.

[@NoName-jq7tj]

The Boris Becker segment was brilliant.

[@jmenceladus1332]

That England team really lacked confidence

[@Onmysheet]

They didn't seem to care.

[@pcozzy]

Great watching this back 👍🏻 do u have post match analysis 😀

[@rohithraman6488]

Oh please no 😆

[@johncambridge7339]

Nice to know Germany also give out beatings as well gary remember 2010

[@MrDekkert]

The criticism is too harsh. Before England and Germany met, both were just average. Germany had a good game against Australia, but then a defeat against Serbia and a shock win against Ghana. However, I don't understand the commentators' praise for the English team because they didn't show anything either

[@Onmysheet]

They couldn't score against Algeria.

[@ottoballermann9092]

Hansens opening words … so far off reality, he really wasnt well prepared. Our team (Germany) was absolute worldclass in that tournament, it had massive potential, more than other german nationalteams who still reached the final like the ones in 1982, 1986 or 2002. We fans knew that exactly and i remember today, in 2022, that as a fan i faced that match against England in Southafrica 2010 completely calm and superoptimistic.

[@MrDekkert]

To be honest, we (Germany) had had very different performances up until this game. England, in my view, had been average at best. I put the odds before this game at 50/50. I was smarter afterwards too.

[@81chipper89]

I was sure they played Eye of the Tiger at the start of the build up to this game, anyone else remember that?

[@rohithraman6488]

We lost 4-1 yet before the game we were talking about penalties 😂

[@donaldduck5553]

No eluko, no jill Scott, no Alex Scott and no Laura bore off woods! Proper coverage

[@johnmenton6688]

No Micah Richards, no Jermaine Jenas ... glorious!

[@donaldduck5553]

@@johnmenton6688 spot on haha

[@rohithraman6488]

So has Boris not watched a world cup game for 9 years then

[@SuperTed19021]

Trevor Brooking=a *fine* reason into why England's youth/players are/were *so* technically inferior. Not to mention the *upmost* amount of ignorance on show all round by the British media. Germany got to the Euro 2008 final, and England *failed* to qualify for even that, featuring most of "The Golden Generation". Along with a handful of the German players at that World Cup also winning the U21 European Championship the year prior, beating England 4-0 in that final by chance. Most of them would go on to become World Cup Champions at the next World Cup (2014), whilst England prattled down to getting beat by Iceland in Euro 2016.

[@EDFilmsUK]

*utmost

[@jontineal907]

I swear to God we actually never learn 😂 Why did we play Gerrard on the left when we played Scholes on the left in 2006 and it didn't work. PLAY PLAYERS IN THEIR ACTUAL POSITION WHERE THEY PERFORM AT CLUB LEVEL

[@silversteel6312]

Real life example of how dangerous and misleading echo chambers can be……..

[@goldeneye2140]

Funny thing is if England got another goal and didn't scrape a 1-0 vs Slovenia they would have actually faced Ghana instead. The over confidence here is something else 🤣

[@jackmellor5536]

Watching this back is absolutely hilarious. I remember laughing at them even back then. This "Average" Germany team finished 3rd in the 2005 confederations cup and in the 2006 World Cup. They were also runners up in Euro 2008 as well a tournament England failed to qualify for. Germany went on to finish 3rd losing 1-0 to that great Spain team. I wonder what would had happened if that England team played Spain. What would the scoreline be?

[@rohithraman6488]

I wonder what the score would be if the current England team played the current Spain team

[@jackmellor5536]

@@rohithraman6488 Spain would win

[@rohithraman6488]

@@jackmellor5536 I reckon it will be close

[@SuperTed19021]

*Bang on, Jack!*

[@SuperTed19021]

@@jackmellor5536 Both England and Spain fell to Italy on penalties at Euro 2020. Might be interesting. If you are talking about 2010, Spain would have *demolished* England.

[@brianbale9511]

This game capello was clueless his communication was awful ..the lampard shot bobbled on the line it changed history as today the ball tells the referee

[@fraser_mr2009]

Alan Hansen writing off Germany and overrating the English players. Germany are not Algeria.

[@mosmit8648]

If you lose 1:4 to an "average side", what does that make you, Mr. Hansen?

[@MegaDeansy]

48:45 - the infamous 'Uncle Tam', Alan Hanser, toadying-up to his English pay-lords with his - 'It might as well end here !' - line - it made the final result sooooooo much sweeter !

[@tomboz777]

World cuo winners in 4 years time. lol.

[@jackmurphy6864]

10:46 - 10:55 Not, quite, Alan ... not quite.

[@bodhid]

Germany: 8 Finals, 4 Wins. Phenomenal. When you contrast that with England then it should be expected they go in as favourites as they have pedigree, whatever the merits of the side at the time.

[@colmd7680]

No point in being a hindsight hero and point to the 4-1 result. Just look at Englands performances in the group stages to understand the incredible arrogance on show here

[@wildernessuk]

Hansen: this team is average. 😂😂😂 what does that say about England

[@seanmcgonigle7610]

Germany vs Turkey this evening my prediction 0-4 Turkey I'm a turkey fan this evening

[@ottoballermann9092]

Redknapp doesnt even know the german players names … great pundit…lol

[@johnmenton6688]

Schweinsteiger on a dodgy hamstring ran that midfield!

[@simondelaney2734]

These pundits were deluded. England had been terrible all tournament and all they could do was slag off the German team.

[@berrlett]

Ohhh I remember this game Germany vs the Galactic British Media hyped team.

[@andrewjoyce9038]

English media

[@billkent6037]

It's a shame the match was ruined by one of the biggest refereeing howlers of all time. Germany would probably have won anyway but it's disgraceful to have such a big match effected by such atrocious officiating. We will never know what would have happened if the goal had been given...

[@seanmcgonigle7610]

breaking news Germany lost 2-3 have some off that

[@circle2867]

ozil , muller , khedira , neuer, lahm. alan hansen "average squad" lmao

[@ashleythomas4112]

Schweinsteiger as well.

[@lodersracing]

7:51 That is an awful England first 11.

[@megazard5249]

The England players talking about how they would will be taking pens is sooooo cute. 😂😂

[@kw2142]

thiis is hilarious, English exceptionalism at its finest

[@methanbreather]

this shows a big difference between England and Germany. For England playing Germany is a big thing. They have to dig up all the history. Be a bit racist. Be more than a bit condescending. For Germany playing England it is just another game. Sure the English media is a bit more obnoxious and Bild gets baited every time. But overall, just another team. Now the Dutch... that is a different level. Or Italy. Or Spain. But England? Also, I was always astonished by english media thinking that their players were any good. They weren't. The EPL was a good league. Sure. But it was also almost devoid of english players. Some were there. As token english Player to calm the fanbase.

[@jgmcfc]

The arrogance looking back makes the final result even funnier.

[@bighas96]

England blew their chances in 90 WC & 96 euro's then blew even bigger chances of success by losing b2b euro finals proper bottling football nation

[@aj478]

BOTANG

[@elzorro7of9]

If only the english team had the athletic ability of their troops in their amazing cowardice in Dunkirk. So fast. So much energy. Dropping all weapons and drowning in the sea. Amazing.

[@Mike-pd3rd]

Embarrassing comment. The bravery of the men of our country and many other countries is the reason you get to live your life in peace and speak freely like you do. Get off the internet you wasteman.

[@elzorro7of9]

@@Mike-pd3rd Haha, they dropped everything bar their trousers and ran. Fact. Only the British could spin that as some kind of heroism.

[@ALI_FA17]

2022 anyone? :)

[@neilfleck4178]

I'd of rather been watching ghana or some other african team..

[@adilsomtavares1256]

Messi, campeon del mundo 2022👏

[@thomasstandish8738]

Alan hansen is so arrogant

[@SuperTed19021]

He *must* of been having the time of his life though here, being an Scot. The amounts of occasions during this time period he must have tried to prevent his smirks.

[@Bcfc-rv7yi]

I think Alan Hansen as a Scot was always on a bit of a wind up when he was a pundit during this era of England team. I think he knew full well the England team wasn’t good enough but was almost winding the English public up by saying how good we were.

[@heskeylator]

Shame his own side couldn't make it there. They always feel like they deserve to qualify too, that's what makes it funny when they don't.