Set the page to update automatically using the button below. Send your thoughts over to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk The game kicks off at 12.30pm but Rob will be here from midday. In the meantime you can find out who is expected to start for each team with our squad sheets , or keep up with all the latest World Cup news on Sean Ingle’s live blog . Alternatively, you could find out why David Hytner thinks Germany’s football team are reaping the rewards of the country’s liberation generation . Here’s a snippet: When Sami Khedira and his Under-21 team‑mates held aloft the European Championship trophy last summer, after humbling England 4–0 in the final, they dreamed of changing the face of German football. Little did they know that their opportunity would come so quickly. After Euro 2008, Joachim Löw, the Germany manager, accepted the need to “rejuvenate” a squad that had become too heavily seasoned in parts. He has done so in spectacular fashion. Germany have only nine survivors from that tournament here. (It is worth remembering that they were runners-up in Austria and Switzerland.) And once Löw had done with filleting his squad, the players he turned to were almost all from the next generation. World Cup 2010 Germany Serbia World Cup 2010 Group B Germany Serbia Rob Smyth guardian.co.uk
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World Cup 2010: Germany v Serbia – live!
