The match for the bronze medals of the World Cup will be held in Stuttgart on July 8. The German team really wants to thank their amazing fans for their support, winning at least bronze medals. Miroslav Klose hopes to get the best scorer of the championship. Now he tops the list of scorers with 5 goals scored in 6 matches. For the Portuguese, this match will be no less important. They can repeat their best achievement in the world championships. Recall that in 1966, the Portuguese national team with the legendary Eusebio won the bronze of the World Cup. Luis Figo has his own special motivation for this game. He wants to end his career on a high note by winning the World Championship medal.
Stuttgart Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadium Stadium
Germany - Portugal - 3: 1 (0: 0)
Goals: Schweinsteiger, 56 (1: 0), Petit, 61 (2: 0) - in their own goal, Schweinsteiger, 78 (3: 0), Nuno Gomes, 88 (3: 1)
Germany: Kahn, Jansen, Hut, Kael, Schweinsteiger (Hitzelsperger, 79), Frings, Klose (Neuville, 65), Lam, Schneider, Podolski (Hanke, 71), Metzelder.
Portugal: Ricardo, Ferreira, Costa, Meira, Coshtinha (Petit, 46), Pauleta (Figo, 77), Simao, Valente (Nuno Gomes, 69), Cristiano Ronaldo, Maniche, Deco.
Warnings: Frings, 7, Ricardo Costa, 24, Coshtinha, 33, Paolo Ferreira, 60, Schweinsteiger, 78.
Chief Arbiter - Tohru Kamikawa (Japan)
Duel
Miroslav Klose held a very good tournament, scoring 5 goals in the championship and has a total of 10 goals scored in two world championships. He needs to successfully complete the championship in order to be able to break the goal record in 2010 at the world championships. Pedro Pauleta, on the contrary, has not yet met Luis Filipe Scolari’s hopes, having scored only 1 goal in the tournament, and must prove to the coach in this match that he deserves a place in the starting lineup of the national team more than others.
Missing
Ricardo Carvalho will miss the match for yellow cards. The Germans have no losses before the game.
Past meetings
In the finals of the world championships, the national teams of Germany and Portugal did not meet until this moment.
Question of the day
Germany accustomed to the finals is disappointed with the participation of the national team only in the match for third place, but the German public expects the team to finish the championship with a victory.
Figures
- Germany won 64 victories in the World Cup finals,
- 40 years have passed since the Portuguese won the bronze at the World Cup in England,
- Players of the Portuguese national team received the most yellow cards in this championship - 21,
- The national teams of Germany and Portugal met each other 14 times. The Germans won 6 times, the Portuguese won 3 times and 5 meetings ended in a draw.
Day in history
On July 9, 1990, at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the German team won the Argentine national team 1-0 in the World Cup final and won gold medals for the third time in its history.
Few people know about it.
The Bundesliga will still be represented in the final of the World Cup. This will be the ninth consecutive finals in which at least one player from the German Premier League will play. This time there is only one such player - the player of the national team of France and Munich “Bavaria” Willy Sagnol.
Felix Klimov