guy07 wrote:Germany VS Spain, i never would have guessed that ... i'm voting for German. My German blood made me do it.

I'm "voting" for Spain for much more logical reasons. If you notice, Germany have put on a very cautious game, to put it mildly - they only won their first game against Poland with a lead of more than 1. Otherwise they never got to penalties and all through, they pretty much played an annoyingly cautious game where they'd score and then hang on to their lead instead of continuing attack, wearing down the other team gradually through relatively organized defense.
The problem is that as we saw - especially in this last game - Spain can put on offensive pressure and keep it. They managed to wear down the Russians even though the game was constantly in their (Russians') own zone - and I'm afraid the same thing will happen to Germany unless they realize this.
One thing for sure, they won't be able to win against Spain the way they've been playing up to now.
I'll be going for Germany too, but as with Russia, I'm skeptical. Russia just fell apart against Spain's game. Not shamefully, but in a way that was completely obvious and showed their team's lack of organized offensive cooperation. They were counting on "Arshavin magic" and other individual talents on their team, and it didn't work at all. They weren't playing well together on the attack - and Spain's goal-scoring attacks were all brilliantly set up by comparison. The Russians did admirably on defense and the goalkeeping was top-notch. Just that if one team is completely dominating the ball in the opponent's zone, probability will eventually do its job.