This is a match everyone likes to see - a good score, great passes, great dribbles, a great team going all out and giving an all round team. Australia is not a bad team and by no means one of the weaker ones in this world cup, but the score of 4-0 might just indicate that. The first few games had a few great teams playing safe and few ending in a draw. But Germany went all out and routed Australia 4-0.
Germany scored two goals in each half and Tim Cahill was sent off as the three-time champion surged to the top of Group D at the World Cup. Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose scored in the first 30 minutes as Australia coach Pim Verbeek's defensive tactics backfired. Podolski started the rout by ending a slick passing move in the eighth minute and Klose headed in his 11th career World Cup goal in the 26th. Thomas Mueller and Cacau also scored against an overwhelmed Australian defense in the second half after Cahill was red-carded in the 56th minute for a late tackle on Bastian Schweinsteiger. Klose missed two more good chances before Mueller made it 3-0 in the 68th minute, dragging the ball back to avoid Scott Chipperfield's lunge and firing a low shot in off the post. Cacau rounded off the scoring in the 70th, just two minutes after coming on for Klose.
"I think the way we set up our attacks is something we've been working on intensively," Germany coach Joachim Loew said. "But we've also worked on how we play off the ball – to move into unused space. We were very good on the ball tonight, and we created beautiful goals."
"It was not an easy game for us," Australian coach Verbeek said. "We tried to make it very difficult for them and use our speed, but we didn't have the ball in the first 20 minutes. The next game is a final," Verbeek said of the match with Ghana. "We have to win that game."
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