Germany will welcome Belgium to the ESPRIT arena in Dusseldorf tomorrow evening as the hosts look the make history.
It will be a special night in Germany, if they win this game they will be the first German team of all time to finish qualifying with a 100% record.
Whilst this may not be the most incredible feat in History, knowing the Germans they will treat this game as a cup final, the crowd will be fired up and if current form is anything to go by, they will put on show for sure.
Germany have been one of the nations that have impressed me the most in the past couple of years, everyone wrote the Germans off early in the last world cup, they said their players were old and the youngsters breaking through did not have the same sort of talent.
Well Germany had a great world cup, they rolled through England and in the end finished 3rd overall.
Since then they have played 9 Euro 2012 Qualifying rounds and won all 9.
Their 4 wins in Germany have been the most convincing scoring 19 goals and conceding just 3.
Last Friday they went to one of the toughest places in Europe to win games, Turkey, they won 1-3 with great ease.
The Germans looked determined to get that 100% record there, so how much more determined will they be in front of there home fans and just one win away from achieving that goal?
Whilst Klose may still be out, Ozil and Kroos will both return and Germany will be deadly going forward.
Belgium can be proud of the way they have played themselves recently.
They lost their first 2 games to Germany and Turkey but since then have been unbeaten in 7 games.
This may look good on paper but they haven't really been tested along that run, they also failed to beat Austria and Azerbaijan along the way.
This game will be a whole new level and they will have to step up massively to match the Germans in all areas of the field, something I don't see them doing.
Even worse for Belgium is the fact that Van Buyten, their best and most experienced defender will miss this game through suspension and he will be sorely missed in the backline.
Vossen, Hubert and Ogunjimi are also all missing through injury.
Germany are a best priced 1.38 to win this game, I'm convinced they will win this but these odds do not interest me, instead I am opting for one of my favourite markets again and one that is easy to find value in, Germany to Score in Both Halves.
Germany have scored in their last 16 halves of football in these qualifiers! That in itself is an amazing stat but the fact that they will be more determined to win this game then any other in this campaign so far just makes this one of my best bets for a while.
As low as 1.72 with Victor Chandler, this same bet is available at 2.1 with Ladbrokes, snap it up right now as I will be VERY surprised to see this price on offer in the lead up to tomorrows game!
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