World Cup journey through time – July 13.7.2014, XNUMX: Götze triggers a frenzy of joy

The 2014 World Cup final took place at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Germany beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time with a goal from Mario Götze and won their fourth World Cup title. It was the third meeting between the two nations in a World Cup final, after the Argentines won in 1986 and the Germans in 1990.

The game was an even, not always high-class and sometimes hard-fought exchange of blows. Germany's style of play was based on ball possession and control of the game, while Argentina mostly carried out their attacks in quick counterattacks and thus initially had better scoring opportunities.

Higuain missed three chances to score at the start Gonzalo Higuaín alone missed three opportunities to take the lead in the first half hour of the game. He missed the first one in the fourth minute from a tight angle. In the 21st minute he intercepted a header returned by Toni Kroos, but, unchallenged and with only goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in front of him, he shot the ball past the German goal to the left. In the 30th minute, Higuaín scored from close range after a pass from Ezequiel Lavezzi. However, this goal was disallowed due to the shooter's offside position.

Christoph Kramer had previously collided with Ezequiel Garay in the Argentine penalty area in the 17th minute and was finally replaced by André Schürrle in the 31st minute due to a concussion he suffered. Schürrle was immediately dangerous after being substituted on In the 36th minute, Schürrle shot on goal with a direct pass following a pass from Thomas Müller. The Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Romero was able to save the shot; Furthermore, a goal would not have counted because of Mesut Özil's offside position, which obscured 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 Germany's best chance to date when he hit the right post with a header after a corner from Kroos.

At the beginning of the second half, Sergio Agüero came on in place of Lavezzi to strengthen the Argentine offensive, while the German team initially refrained from making any further changes. Messi missed Germany's goal in the 47th minute when his shot just missed the right post. Neuer spared by the referee A hard tackle by Neuer in the 56th minute against Higuaín on the edge of the German penalty area was not punished by referee Nicola Rizzoli. After that, the game was largely characterized by inaccuracies and ball losses on both sides. In the 80th minute, Kroos deflected the ball to the right of the Argentina goal after a back pass from Mesut Özil.

Miroslav Klose, who became the World Cup record goalscorer in the semi-finals, was substituted in the 88th minute. He was replaced by Mario Götze, who failed to hit the ball properly when attempting a shot from a central position around 20 meters from the goal in stoppage time, so that Romero was able to pick it up without any problems. This left the game with a goalless draw at the end of regular time. Agüero's punch not punished In the first minute of extra time, Romero parried a shot from Schürrle from close range. Six minutes later, Rodrigo Palacio, who came on for Higuaín, placed a ball undercut by Mats Hummels in front of Neuer as a lob to the left of the German goal. In the second half of extra time, Bastian Schweinsteiger suffered a bleeding laceration under his right eye from an unpunished punch in the 108th minute of a duel with Aguero. Götze's golden goal in the 113th minute The German team took the lead in the 113th minute. After a pass from Toni Kroos from the halfway line, André Schürrle started an advance towards the baseline of the Argentine half of the pitch on the German left side at the level of the center circle. Pressed by Javier Mascherano and Pablo Zabaleta, he hit a cross from the side of the Argentine penalty area past 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 his left foot into the far corner of the Argentine goal. Sergio Romero had speculated on a shot into the near corner.

After the 1-0 win, Argentina increased the pressure on the German goal, but were unable to equalize. Messi missed the last good opportunity to score in the third minute of extra time when he shot the ball over the German goal from a free kick from around 25 meters.

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World Cup journey through time – July 13.7.2014, XNUMX: Götze triggers a frenzy of joy

As always during the World Cup, SportNews is looking back today at highlights that happened on the same day at a previous World Cup. This time we're just looking back four years to July 13, 2014, at the final of the World Cup in Brazil between Germany and Argentina.

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