World Cup time travel – July 6.7.1974, XNUMX: Lato is crowned top scorer

One day before the final, the game for third place was played in the Munich Olympic Stadium. Brazil and Poland stood opposite each other.

Brazil misses out on reaching the final Even though there were no real semi-final games at the time due to a second group phase, there were two quasi-semi-final games due to the order of games and results of the first group games: In Group A, Brazil and the Netherlands met, both of whom had previously won against Argentina and the GDR, in the last game, although a draw would have been enough for the Dutch to reach the final. In a game that was extremely hard fought by the Brazilians, the Dutch won 2-0. And the Brazilians had to be content with the game for third place. Poland was favorite in the duel against Germany The situation before the last game in Group B was similar: the Federal Republic of Germany had initially defeated Yugoslavia and Sweden, but the Poles had also succeeded. Thanks to the better goal difference, a draw in the last game was enough for the Germans. This game on July 3, 1974 in Frankfurt's Waldstadion went down in football history as the “Frankfurt Water Battle”. Before the game started, a cloudburst made the pitch unplayable. The fire department tried to push the water out of the area with rollers.

At the time, Poland was generally considered to be the technically better team; However, due to the adverse field conditions, they were unable to exploit their strengths, and the Federal Republic of Germany qualified for the final with a 1-0 win thanks to gold goal scorer Gerd Müller. The Poles were left with the “small final”. Solo run leads to winning goal So on July 6, 1974, the dethroned world champions Brazil and the surprise team of the World Cup, Poland, faced each other. In a game with few highlights in front of 77.500 spectators, the Polish right winger Grzegorz Lato started a solo effort in the 79th minute, passed the Brazilian Zé Maria 30 meters in front of the goal, ran from a half-right position to the penalty area and shot from 13 meters for the decisive 0: 1 a.

Lato's seventh goal of the tournament gave Poland a sensational third place. At the same time, Lato consolidated his lead in the fight for the title of World Cup top scorer, which he ultimately won because those next in the top scorer list could no longer overtake him in the final.

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World Cup time travel – July 6.7.1974, XNUMX: Lato is crowned top scorer

As always during the World Cup, SportNews is looking back today at highlights that happened on the same day at one of the previous World Cups. This time we look back 44 years to July 6, 1974 and the penultimate game at the World Cup in Germany.

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