Portugal succumb to German blitzkrieg

Final Score:

Germany: 4 - 0 :Portugal

Goal scores: Thomas Mueller (11(P), 45 and 70), Matt Hummels (31)

Yellow Card: J pereira
Red Card: Pepe

Best player of the match: Thomas Mueller
Worst Player of the match: Pepe

This German team is nothing but an engineering, a well crafted masterpiece.

Yet another sorry loss for Portugal. In normal terms, Portuguese team was completely flattened by Germany nail. Now to start off with right from the start both teams tried to attack with Germany had the pace for which Portugal had very little control. At 11th minute Patricio foolishness would have made portugal to concede a goal, but khedira shot was just steps away from the goal post. Four minutes later Gotze bought down inside the box by Jose pereira which earns Germany a penalty kick.

11th Minute: Thomas Mueller converts form the spot. Goal number one for Germany.

Post first goal Germans up the ante and pushed forward. The next blow came at 25th minute when Hugo Almeida pulled up an injury and was replaced with Defender Eder. From there on in regular intervals teh Germans regularly troubled the Portuguese defense. At 30th minute  Mario Gotze miss a chance to score which results in corner.

31st Minute: From Kroos corner Matt Hummels score a goal. The header simply went in like a lightning. Goal number 2 for Germany.

At 39th Minute there is a shocker from Pepe at first being the last defender and striker next to you, you cannot just bring the striker down adn the thing that should not have been done was done by Pepe. After that he head butt with Mueller which resulted in a Straight red card for Pepe. At this moment Portugal became 10 men.

45th Minute: Kroos shot is converted into goal by Muller, a simple yet precise goal. Goal number 3 for Germany.

In second half both teams came up with attack but for Portugal the German defense and mid field was too good. the interception in critical points of the field was very clinical that not many fouls where called but once match was killed Portuguese began to be more physical. At 53rd minute when Nani comes to shoot, contrao interrupts which results in confusion, That was probably the worst moment for the Portuguese when the collusion hampered the attack. At 65th minute Contrao badly pulls up his thigh which results in groin injury and thus bringing contrao's world cup campaign to curtains.

77th Minute: Schurrle Pass is converted to a goal by Thomas Mueller. Goal number 3 for mueller and 4 for Germany. Mueller scores the first hat trick of the tournament.

Post 4th goal Christiano Ronaldo got 3 free kicks out of which 2 didn't even cross the intial defense wall and the third one was saved by neur. So what next for both teams, 6 days from now Germany will take on Ghana and Portugal will take on USA. With pepe, contrao and Almeida ruled out for next fixture Portugal needs to work on the basics in order to beat USA. For Germany its just keeping up the tempo thats it.

Lets move on to next match today which  is Iran vs Nigeria at Arena da Baixada, Curitiba.

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Venkats