Both the teams had a controversial route to this match benefiting from the referee decisions. But the margin of win masks the controversy.
Argentina and Germany are facing each other on 3 July at Green Point Stadium, Capetown which is going to be a mouth-watering tale.
Argentina so far:
Argentina stormed to three wins and maximum points in their group games and did it with a flair and style that cannot have failed to impress. Their most cautious game was the opener against Nigeria, which they won through an early goal by Gabriel Heinze. But Argentina ran riot against South Korea, with Gonzalo Higuain scoring a hat-trick in the 4-1 victory. In the final group match against Greece, Martin Demichelis and Martin Palmero gave Argentina a 2-0 victory.
Not to forget Messi and his creation of chances for goals. The opposition teams are bringing him down whenever he gets the ball, which was a concern for Maradonna.
The pre-quarter bash started with the controversial goal by Carlos Tevez that should not have stood on twenty-six minutes. The Mexican players were still reeling from the decision when Argentina added a second through Gonzalo Higuain just five minutes later. Carlos Tevez scored with an indisputable wonder strike early in the second half and Manchester United’s new signing Javier Hernandez pulled one back for the Mexicans, but it was too little too late.
Germany so far:
Germany have scored four goals beating Australia 4-0 in the first group game before losing 1-0 to Serbia and then beating Ghana by the same score.
Klose’s exit against Serbia facing red card was a turnover. Two minutes later Serbia registered its first goal. Adding to the woos was Podolski’s bizarre form who missed a Penalty-Kick. After an impressive start over Australia this was never expected.
Ozil’s blinder against Ghana made them to enter round 16.
Germany outplayed England 4-1 but the first half was clouded in the controversy over England’s goal that was not allowed.
Betting odds:
The bookmakers have Argentina as favorites to progress, but fifa 2006 quarter-finals should be remembered when both sides ended with penalty shootout. Germany won the penalty shooutout.
The Paulo(Octopus) picked Germany as the winners for the match so lets wait for the result. It predicted correctly all the Germany matches so this pick is very interesting.
Players views :
Mueller said “Beating Argentina would be a great job certainly. Who doesn’t want to win against a team that has Maradona as coach and Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez as forwards?”
“The Argentine coach, I believe, is criticising the referees for not being able to pull up the defenders for fouling Messi. That’s unfair on the defenders. Messi keeps the ball for long periods. So, what are the defenders supposed to do? You can’t ask them to stop tackling Messi,” said the lanky midfielder, Schweinsteiger.
“We are in the quarterfinal but also know that Germany is a different team than Mexico. It’s stronger but we’ll field the right players in order to beat Germany,” Maradona said.
"I was more afraid of Mexico than Germany, Because the Mexicans play better football. They took the ball from us in the first minutes of the first half and at the start of the second. We would have suffered more if we hadn't struck at the right moments.", Tevez said.
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