Cameroon v Germany: Predicted line-ups & essential facts and stats

Coach Volker Finke still has a series of injury to deal with, Samuel Eto’o, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Pierre Webo, Stephane M’Bia, Aurelien Chedjou, Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik, Alex Song and Jean II Makoun all injury doubts and likely not to play against the German team.

Potential lineup will be: Itandje, Bong, N’Koulou, Nyom, Matip, Enoh, Loe, Idrissou, Moukandjo, Aboubakar, Choupo-Moting.

Besides the injuries, the Indomitable Lions lost their last match against Paraguay last week,and were severely beaten 5-1 by Portugal in their few month ago in their last match against a serious team.

On the German side Joachim Loew has confirmed that Philipp Lahm and Manuel Neuer will be miss the Cameroon match as a precaution.

With Manuel Neuer carrying a knock, Roman Weidenfeller will get the opportunity to reassure German fans that he can step in between the sticks for the Mannschaft, whikle at the pther end of the pitch Miroslav Klose will be aiming to show that at 35-years-old, he can still cut it at the highest level of the international game.

Potential lineup will be: Weidenfeller, Grosskreutz, Mertesacker, Boateng, Durm, Kramer, Khedira, Ozil, Reus, Muller, Klose.

Undoubtedly, Germany’s major strength comes in midfield, where the Europeans seem blessed with an abundance of talent.

Marco Reus, Mesut Ozil and Thomas Muller will all be on the plane for Brazil this summer, whilst the likes of Julian Draxler, Andre Schurrle, Lukas Podolski will all be hoping to be selected in the the 23-man squad.

Germany outscored every other European team in World Cup qualification, bagging 36 goals in 10 games.

Germany is one of the favorites to win the World Cup in Brazil and will be seeking to open their World Cup warm-up matches with a win over the Indomitable Lions.

Cameroon have won just two of their last five matches while Germany have drawn three of their last five friendlies.