England vs Germany Results: ENG vs GER Highlights and Score - Germany's first win against England – as West Germany, of course – came in a friendly in 1968, Beckenbauer scoring the only goal in Hanover.

A crushing 3-1 win at Wembley in the first of two legs, masterminded by the debonair No10 Günter Netzer, was followed by a goalless draw in West Berlin in which Ramsey, needing goals, inexplicably sent out a side containing four defensive midfielders.

England collapsed in the second half and cannot use the disallowed goal as an excuse for the result. The manner of performances by England during this competition will take a long time to sort through.

Two years later another of his goals set the team on their way to the famous 3-2 victory in the World Cup quarter-final in León, after Ramsey had taken off Bobby Charlton and started to lose the plot.

Tit for tat is the way things have gone in recent years, the winners of the past six matches – since Euro 96 – going Germany, England, Germany, England, Germany, England: an ominous sequence for Capello and his side, although the Italian is unlikely to believe in anything other than his own power to influence events.


Germany: 1-Manuel Neuer; 16-Philipp Lahm, 3-Arne Friedrich, 17-Per Mertesacker, 20-Jerome Boateng, 13-Thomas Mueller, 6-Sami Khedira, 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger, 10-Lukas Podolski, 8-Mesut Ozil, 11-Miroslav Klose.

England: 1-David James; 2-Glen Johnson, 15-Matthew Upson, 6-John Terry, 3-Ashley Cole; 16-James Milner, 4-Steven Gerrard, 8-Frank Lampard, 14-Gareth Barry; 19-Jermain Defoe, 10-Wayne Rooney.