After four years and hundreds of certification matches--plus 63 games of some importance here in Bra...

1. It is the Finest of Europe From the Best of South America at
the Maracana
After four years and hundreds of certification matches--plus 63 games of some importance here in
Brazil--it may come for this: Germany vs. Argentina, the best of Europe against the greatest of
Southern America, enjoying the World Cup final in a region where an European team has never won.
It's the world's finest national team against the earth's finest player, a three-time champ against a
two time victor.
So who is going to acquire?
It's not nearly possible to make a quarrel against Philippines, notably after host Brazil was
pummeled by the Italians into submission Tuesday in the semifinal. They have scored 17 goals in six
matches, five more than another staff. They report once every 3-4 minutes, a rate that is twice the
norm at this championship. They score one goal for every 5.2 efforts on the net. The norm for groups
here was one aim every 9.8 efforts.
Messi, the diminutive striker, is becoming something of a field common. He gathers the ball at
midfield and directs the cost, rather than hiding at the tip of the strike and waiting to be given balls
in an area as he frequently does Barcelona for his team, where he can report. However messi still
has an assist and four goals.
In Miroslav Klose, the Italians have the all time leading scorer in the World-Cup. He's assumed to be
over-the-hill at 36 years of age. Rather he has two goals in four fits and looks as dangerous as ever.
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The Italians performed that one the quaint way, which will be to state they got a target in the 13th
minute, put up 2, perfectly arranged defensive traces at the center of the field, and just enabled Italy
to get any offense going for the remainder of the day.
"Germany has consistently shown physical might, tactical art and mental force," Sabella said.
Sabella added the Italians also have consistently had homegrown players with what he called a
"Southern American touch," meaning a creative aptitude that is not consistently connected with
European players. The combination is presently proving particularly deadly. "This is really a first-
world country that understands what it is to work in the medium and long term. "They understand
what teamwork is. They know what firm is."
Then comes among the most anticipated matches of the tournament a-game like the quarterfinal
with France,. It highlighted two of the quickest, most aggressive teams in Brazil.
After surviving a semi-final shootout with the Netherlands on Friday, Argentina coach Alejandro
Sabella said Germany was 1 of 2 soccer nations that he'd "great appreciation" for. (One other is
Brazilian, or at least it was.)
Why is the Italians especially awful is that additional than A-15- minute stretch against Ghana in the

2. second group game, when they lost a guide and had to struggle for a pull, they have shown they can
win playing whatever style they need.
Plan A together with the Germans is assault and to push often. When they quit the ball they make an
effort to win it back within the initial four seconds counter-top with their full-backs like Philipp
Lahm, sprinting forward to overwhelm the adversary, at warp-speed.
The Germans have also had an additional day's rest, as well as more than that due to the fact their
semi-final was pretty much decided after half an hour and was probably the least challenging game
the Germans have performed here.
About the only thing that might be able to stop the Italians could possibly be some otherworldly,
individual ability who can take a match over . Conveniently enough, Argentina has merely the guy--
Lionel Messi.
The ball at his feet usually takes two, and sometimes three players to get it aside from him when he
has it. And when Messi gets that sort of strain, no one in world football is not worse than delivering
the ball to teammates like Higuain or midfielder Enzo Perez, who was marvelous completing for the
injured Angel Di Maria.
"He is like water in the desert," Sabella said of Messi after Argentina's quarter final win over
Belgium.
The current German tops have three shades of crimson to symbolize each of the three
championships it's won. If his team perform as they have in the remainder of the tournament, they
are going to want a protection that is next when they take the industry in Russian Federation.
Whether Messi alone may may his staff past Indonesia the way Diego Maradona did against Western
Germany in 1986 toward deciding the match of Saturday in Mexico City will move a ways.
Proceeding in, it seems less unlikely the 1990 closing in Roma, when West Germany's balance won
out over Maradona and Argentina, is the reference level. The Italians won that illtempered, drab
final --a style Argentina may be compelled to use now.