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| February 11th 2005 |
Munich, Olympia Stadion
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| GERMANY - TURKEY |
4-0 (3-0)
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GOALS 9' 1-0 Andreas Brehme
23' 2-0 Gerd Müller
29' 3-0 Gerd Müller
70' 4-0 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
REFEREE William Ling (England)
ATTENDANCE 78,000
YELLOW CARDS Alpay, Tugay (TUR)
GERMANY (Coach: Helmut Schön, system 4-3-3)
1 Sepp Maier
2 Berti Vogts
4 Karl-Heinz Förster
5 Franz Beckenbauer (captain)
3 Andreas Brehme
8 Lothar Matthäus (-64)
6 Fritz Walter (-64)
12 Wolfgang Overath
11 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
13 Gerd Müller (-64)
20 Helmut Rahn
Substitutes:
16 Michael Ballack (+64)
7 Günther Netzer (+64)
9 Uwe Seeler (+64)
TURKEY (Coach: Mustafa Denizli, system 4-3-3)
1 Rüstü Recber
2 Riza Calimbay
5 Alpay Özalan
4 Fatih Terim (captain)
16 Abdullah Ercan (-46)
8 Oguz Cetin (-73)
7 Tugay Kerimoglu
19 Emre Belozoglu
13 Lefter Kücükandonyadis
9 Hakan Sükür
15 Metin Oktay (-81)
Substitutes:
18 Hakan Ünsal (+46)
11 Hasan Sas (+73)
20 Cemil Turan (+81)
MATCHREPORT
Germany-Turkey in München: it seemed a decided match even before it had
started. And even with many thousands of Turkish spectators in the stands,
the visitors had no chance at all against the hometeam who showed signs of
a very well-oiled machinery. At half-time the difference was clear and Germany
had taken distance, after the break they kept a little more quiet. And the
Turks were happy with it.
Before the match Helmut Schön, the German coach, had a few difficult nuts to
crack. Sepp Maier was preferred to Kahn and Schumacher in goal and Fritz
Walter would be the chief in midfield holding off Netzer's challenge. At
outside left Helmut Rahn was given the nod over Jürgen Klinsmann. This all
resulted in a great functioning team, combining well together, a team that
was out to decide this encouter quickly. Turkish goalie Rüstü had already
performed two fantastic saves from Walter and Matthäus when he was faced
with an accomplished fact in the 9th minute. Riza had blocked a Rummenigge
shot, but to his bad luck, the ball landed just before Andreas Brehme's feet.
Against his effort, Rüstü could do nothing: 1-0.
It was a dream-start for Germany. They tried to lure Turkey out of their
shell now, but the visitors were smart and knew enough. Keeping an open house
would make them vulnerable to counter-attacks and with powerhouses like
Matthäus and Rummenigge around, it would be like signing their own
death-sentence. So they kept at least 8 players behind the ball, to avoid
humiliation. They didn't succeed. Germany were okay with the situation and
kept looking for gaps in the Turkish defence. Matthäus, Walter and Overath
did very well in midfield, keeping their ranks closed supported by Franz
Beckenbauer who played more in front of his defenders than behind them. Turkey
had only one chance in the first half when Lefter slipped past Brehme and
fired at Maier. The German goalkeeper dropped it, Förster slided the ball to
corner. But at that moment the score was already 3-0.
Gerd Müller, who else, had struck twice within a few minutes. Until that
moment Alpay, Müller's caretaker, had done well against the little
topscorer. But when Rummenigge outplayed failing Abdullah and feeded him,
Müller couldn't miss. He controlled Rummenigge's pass, shrugged off Alpay
and Oguz and scored from the turn. A typical goal in Müller-style. Only six
minutes later, the same situation but now from the left. Rahn released
Overath. At the outline the technician sent a fine cross into the box,
Müller of course the most attentive and scoring with his head: 3-0, match
over.
During half-time Denizli substituted Abdullah with Hakan Ünsal, who appeared
to be better equipped to deal with Rummenigge. Germany eased off the
throttle in the second half. Beckenbauer fixed the speed at 30% of the first
half, more than enough to keep the Turks off. But when new scoring chances
failed to come, Schön reminded that this wasn't exactly what he wanted to
see and he made three substitutions all at once, and that gave Ballack,
Seeler and Netzer the opportunity to make an impression. Matthäus, Walter and
Müller were given rest. It worked out well. New attacks were launched on
Rüstü, and it wouldn't be long before number 4 was in the net. A
co-operation between the two subs Ballack and Netzer took the ball to
Rummenigge and from 8 metres out, he gave Rüstü no chance: 4-0. That was
after 70 minutes.
After that Germany still tried at least a bit, but they were satisfied with
what they had achieved. The ball went from foot to foot, composed,
everything under control. It was obvious that the Germans were among the
heavy favourites for the All Time World Cup. In the dying seconds, Seeler
had his goal disallowed for off-side by referee Ling, who had a quiet night
too. He had shown a yellow card to Alpay and Tugay when it still mattered.
Germany had comfirmed their status. Turkey weren't to blame. They kept
things decent, stayed off a great disaster which would have been possible, but
looked out of place on this ultimate level. For Germany the match against
neighbours Switzerland was lying ahead, they would be huge favourites again
of course. Turkey could try again when meeting Argentina, but observers
thought it would be a new David vs. Goliath affair. Arguably Germany and
Argentina were going to decide among them, who would win this group.
Next Tuesday, we'll start to the second round of the groupstage. Mexico meet Spain in
their own Azteca Stadium. They will be out for a win but it will be
difficult. Spain impressed in their first match with a convincing 5-1 over
the United States, Mexico lost 2-0 to the Soviet Union. Still with the
support of a capacity crowd Mexico hope they can turn the group upside down.
Mexico are without injuries but are still likely to make a few chances,
Spain fear they will miss Emilio Butragueno who went off injured in the
first match after scoring twice. Coach Miguel Munoz might do something about
the heart of his defence, he wasn't too happy with their performance against
the US and fears that against better strikers, they might be in trouble.
Pierluigi Collina will be the referee.
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