Final of the 2014 World Cup

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The German national team at the award ceremony after the 2014 World Cup final

The 2014 World Cup final between Germany and Argentina was the final of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and took place on July 13, 2014 in the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro . In this game, Germany defeated the team from Argentina with a goal by Mario Götze 1-0 after extra time and thus won their fourth World Cup title. It was the third meeting of the two nations in a final of a soccer world championship after the Argentines had won in 1986 and the Germans in 1990, and the first title win by a European national soccer team on the American continent .

prehistory

The German (left) and Argentine national teams before the start of the game

The World Cup final was the 21st international match between the three-time world champion Germany and the two-time title holder Argentina. In the previous 20 games, Germany had won six times and Argentina nine times, five games had ended in a draw. In the record of World Cup matches between the two teams, Germany was ahead with four wins, one draw and one defeat. Argentina won the last encounter before the World Cup final in a friendly on August 15, 2012 in Frankfurt with 3-1.

Both teams had finished the group stage of the 2014 World Cup as winners of their respective groups. The German team prevailed with two wins and one draw . Argentina remained with three wins without losing points. In the second round Germany defeated Algeria with 1: 2 n. V. , Argentina defeated Switzerland with 1:. 0 aet in the quarterfinals sat between Germany and France with 1: 0 by, while Argentina Belgium also with 1: 0 defeated. In the semi-finals , the German team against the World Cup hosts reached Brazil with 7: 1 a runaway victory , while Argentina, the Netherlands after a goalless 120 minutes of play in the penalty shoot-out with 4: 2 defeated.

Germany made it into the final of a World Cup for the eighth time in its 18th finals, and it was the fifth final in 16 finals for Argentina. Germany was last in a World Cup final in 2002 , Argentina in 1990 . After 1986 and 1990, the two teams met each other for the third time in a World Cup final, more often than any other at soccer world championships.

Before the game, national coach Joachim Löw spoke of a “duel at eye level”, but was nevertheless optimistic about the prospects of success: “If we can bring our quality through, then we will win this game.” Argentina national coach Alejandro Sabella warned in advance of a “ mighty rivals ”and demanded“ humility and sacrifice ”from his players.

In Argentina, Ángel Di María was only on the bench due to a muscle injury sustained in the quarter-finals against Belgium. Apart from that, the entire World Cup squad was available to the Argentine team. For the German team, Sami Khedira sustained a calf injury in the warm-up phase before the start of the game and was therefore replaced in the starting line-up by Christoph Kramer . In addition to Khedira, Shkodran Mustafi , who was injured in the round of 16 against Algeria, also fell out.

Course of the game

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Lionel Messi (blue jersey, No. 10) has a 40th minute scoring chance for Argentina
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Benedikt Höwedes (second from left) with a header to hit the post in the 45th minute of the game
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Rodrigo Palacio (left) trying to overcome Manuel Neuer (right) with a lob in the 97th minute of the game


The game was a balanced, not always high-class and sometimes tough exchange of blows. Germany's style of play was geared towards possession and control of the game, while Argentina mostly presented their attacks in quick counterattacks and thus initially had better scoring opportunities. Gonzalo Higuaín alone missed three opportunities to take the lead in the first half hour of the game. The first in the fourth minute he twisted it from an acute angle. In the 21st minute he intercepted a return header from Toni Kroos , but shot the ball to the left of the German goal , undisturbed and only goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in front of him. In the 30th minute, Higuaín hit from close range after a pass from Ezequiel Lavezzi . However, this hit was not counted due to the shooter's offside position . Christoph Kramer had previously collided with Ezequiel Garay in the Argentine penalty area in the 17th minute . That he had suffered a concussion including memory loss became clear when he asked referee Nicola Rizzoli whether he was in the World Cup final. He was then replaced by André Schürrle in the 31st minute . In the 36th minute, Schürrle shot on goal after a pass from Thomas Müller . The Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Romero was able to parry the shot; a goal would not have counted because of Mesut Özil's offside position , who blocked Romero's view. In return, Lionel Messi had already overcome Neuer in the 40th minute, but Jérôme Boateng was able to clear the back pass to Lavezzi. At the end of the first half, Benedikt Höwedes missed the best German chance to date when he hit the right post with a header from a Kroos corner.

At the beginning of the second half Sergio Agüero came into play for Lavezzi to reinforce the Argentine offensive , while the German team initially waived further changes. Messi missed the German goal in the 47th minute when his shot just missed the right post. A hard entry by Neuer in the 56th minute against Higuaín on the German penalty area border was not punished by the referee Rizzoli. After that, the game was mostly characterized by playful inaccuracies and ball losses on both sides. In the 80th minute, Kroos moved the ball to the right of the Argentine goal after a back pass from Mesut Özil . Miroslav Klose , who had advanced to become the top scorer in the World Cup , was substituted in the 88th minute. For him came Mario Götze , who failed to hit the ball properly in stoppage time when attempting a shot from a central position around 20 meters away from the goal, so Romero could pick it up without any problems. This left the goalless draw at the end of regular time.

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Sequence ( from left to right ) of the 1-0 winning goal for Germany by Mario Götze (white jersey) in the 113th minute of the game

In the first minute of extra time, Romero parried a Schürrle shot from close range. Six minutes later, the substitute for Higuaín Rodrigo Palacio placed a ball that Mats Hummels had undermined in front of Neuer as a lob left of the German goal. In the second half of extra time, Bastian Schweinsteiger suffered a bleeding laceration under his right eye in a duel with Agüero in the 108th minute of the game . The Argentine, who had been charged with a yellow card since the 65th minute , escaped dismissal ; Schweinsteiger continued the game after team doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt clamped the wound on the edge of the field .

In the 113th minute, the German team took the lead. After a pass from Toni Kroos from the center line, André Schürrle started a push to the baseline of the Argentine half of the pitch on the left German side at the height of the center circle. Pressed by Javier Mascherano and Pablo Zabaleta , he hit a cross to the side of the Argentine penalty area over Martín Demichelis to the left corner of the five-meter area , where Mario Götze had run free. Götze jumped towards the ball, took it with his chest and shot it with a twisting shot with his left foot into the long corner of the Argentine goal. Sergio Romero had speculated on a shot in the near corner.

After the 1-0 win, Argentina increased the pressure on the German goal, but could no longer equalize. The last good scoring opportunity missed Messi in the third minute of stoppage time of extra time when the score with a free kick from about 25 meters over the German goal curled . Rizzoli whistled the game about a minute later after a foul by Zabaleta on Schweinsteiger.

Germany Argentina Lineup
GermanyGermany
final
July 13, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST ) in Rio de Janeiro ( Maracanã )
Result: 1: 0 n.V.
Spectators: 74,738 (sold out)
Referee: Nicola Rizzoli ( Italy ) ItalyItaly 
Match report
ArgentinaArgentina
Line up Germany against Argentina
Manuel Neuer - Philipp Lahm , Jérôme Boateng , Mats Hummels , Benedikt Höwedes - Christoph Kramer (31st André Schürrle ), Bastian Schweinsteiger - Thomas Müller , Toni Kroos , Mesut Özil (120th Per Mertesacker ) - Miroslav Klose (88th Mario Götze ) Trainer: Joachim Loew(C)Captain of the crew
 Sergio Romero - Pablo Zabaleta , Martín Demichelis , Ezequiel Garay , Marcos Rojo - Enzo Pérez (86th Fernando Gago ), Javier Mascherano , Lucas Biglia , Ezequiel Lavezzi (46th Sergio Agüero ) - Lionel Messi , Gonzalo Higuaín (78th Rodrigo Palacio ) Coach: Alejandro Sabella(C)Captain of the crew
goal 1: 0 Götze (113.)
yellow cards Schweinsteiger (29th), Höwedes (34th) yellow cards Mascherano (64th), Agüero (65th)
Player of the Match: Götze (Germany)

The game in numbers

Garay, Demichelis, Zabaleta and Messi ( from left to right ) in the midst of cheering German players after the final whistle

With the victory, the DFB-Elf won their first World Cup title outside of Europe and as the first European national soccer team a title on the American continent. For Germany it was the first World Cup title win since reunification , the first in extra time to a World Cup final and, after losing to England in 1966, the second World Cup final that was decided in extra time. The German team was the first to win the FIFA World Cup trophy, which has been awarded since 1974, for the third time . After the victories in the 1990 World Cup final and in the two quarter-finals at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, it was the fourth German tournament victory in a row against Argentina. By winning the final, the German team took the lead in the FIFA world rankings with 1724 points, ahead of Argentina (1606 points) and the Netherlands (1496 points). In the alternative ranking of the World Football Elo Ratings , the final victory ensured that Germany achieved the highest number of points ever recorded there with 2223 points.

Apart from the result, Germany also had statistical advantages over Argentina. According to FIFA information, the DFB-Elf were ahead with shots on goal (7: 2) and corners (5: 3) and had 60% more possession than the Albiceleste . In contrast, the BBC recorded a ratio of 5: 0 shots on goal and a possession ratio of 64: 36% for Germany.

Miroslav Klose for Germany and Lucas Biglia for Argentina were the only players from the opposing national teams playing in the final who were working for the same club, specifically for Lazio , at club level at the time of the final . In Germany, Bayern Munich had the largest contingent of players with seven players (Neuer, Lahm, Boateng, Schweinsteiger, Müller, Kroos and Götze) and in Argentina, Manchester City with three players (Demichelis, Zabaleta, Agüero). In Germany the players used came from a total of seven (Bayern Munich, Lazio Rome, Borussia Dortmund , Schalke 04 , Borussia Mönchengladbach , FC Chelsea and FC Arsenal ), in Argentina from ten clubs (Manchester City, Lazio Rome, FC Barcelona , AS Monaco , Benfica Lisbon , Sporting Lisbon , Paris Saint-Germain , SSC Napoli , Inter Milan and CA Boca Juniors ).

Mario Götze was the first substitute to score the winning goal in a World Cup final.

Reactions

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German (left) and Argentinian fans in Maracanã during the World Cup final

The broadcast of the game on the station Das Erste with the commentary by Tom Bartels followed 34.65 million television viewers in Germany, breaking the record of 32.57 million viewers on German television five days earlier in the semifinals between Brazil and Germany .

280 million interactions from 88 million members worldwide represent a new record on Facebook . The previous record in the field of sports of 245 million actions at the 2013 Super Bowl was exceeded. On Twitter , a new record was set at the final whistle with 618,725 tweets per minute, although the absolute number of tweets submitted of 32.1 million was below the result of the semi-final between Brazil and Germany with 35.6 million.

After the game, national coach Löw was convinced: “Nobody deserves it as much as we do. We were a sworn unit that fought for this title. "Argentina coach Sabella said:" It was an even game. We had very good chances, but were not effective enough. "

The FIFA has named after the game Lionel Messi the best player and Manuel Neuer best goalkeeper of the World Cup and recorded with the Golden Ball and the Golden Glove from.

Goalscorer Mario Götze and Shkodran Mustafi demonstrated during the award ceremony the national team jersey of Marco Reus , who had been part of the original World Cup squad, but had to be replaced by Mustafi after an injury in the last friendly before the World Cup against Armenia .

In a variation of his most famous quote, Gary Lineker drew the following conclusion about the 2014 World Cup: "64 games, 171 goals, around 20 men kicked a ball around for 120 minutes and in the end - I really have to tell you - the Germans won."

aftermath

Bastian Schweinsteiger with the World Cup trophy after the award ceremony

An incident, stylized as a scandal by numerous media outlets , occurred two days after the final at the reception celebrations for the German team at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin : some of the national players performed a so-called "gaucho dance" with a singing interlude, which in parts of the The public was interpreted as a tasteless to racist mockery of the Argentines who lost in the final. DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach and the players involved, Toni Kroos and Shkodran Mustafi, contradicted this interpretation.

Five days after the final, team captain Philipp Lahm announced his resignation from the German national team. He was followed a few weeks later by Miroslav Klose and Per Mertesacker . Manuel Neuer and Joachim Löw were voted Footballer of the Year and Coach of the Year in Germany in August 2014 . Joachim Löw was also named FIFA Coach of the Year 2014.

Both teams met again in their first international match after the World Cup final. In the match on September 3, 2014 in Düsseldorf , in which numerous players from the final were not or no longer there, Argentina won 4-2 goals.

Mario Götze's winning goal was named Goal of the Month for July 2014, Goal of the Year 2014 and finally Goal of the Decade of the 2010s.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Soccer World Cup Final Germany - Argentina 2014  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

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