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Keeper takes Klinsmann credit
31/05/2006: Germany coach Jurgen Klinsmann was quick to praise goalkeeper Jens Lehmann following his performance in the 2-2 draw against Japan.
The Arsenal number one reproduced his domestic form to pull off a number of top-class saves as the World Cup hosts drew 2-2 in their World Cup warm-up clash.
The hosts of football's World Cup 2006 trailed by two strikes from the German-based Naohiro Takahara before late goals from Bastian Schweinsteiger and Miroslav Klose spared the German blushes.
Coach Jurgen Klinsman singled out the Arsenal goalkeeper for special praise.
He said: "Jens played an excellent match. Thanks to him we came out of this with a draw. He played a fantastic game."
The miuch maligned Klinsmann knows that the keeper brings an enormous amount of experience to the squad.
He added: "We're fortunate he's here and we're all happy he's here."
Looking at the overall performance against Japan, Klinsmann felt there was plenty of room for improvement adding that his side gave their opponents far too many chances.
Germany starting XI v Japan and shirt numbers (substitutions in brackets):
Goalkeeper
1 Jens Lehmann
Defenders
19 Bernd Schneider
17 Per Mertesacker
21 Christoph Metzelder (Jens Nowotny, 55)
2 Marcell Jansen
Midfield
8 Torsten Frings,
13 Michael Ballack,
18 Tim Borowski (David Odonkor, 62),
7 Bastian Schweinsteiger,
Strikers
11 Miroslav Klose,
20 Lukas Podolski (Oliver Neuville, 70).
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