Germans want title after Brazil victory
BY Agencies11 July 2014 4:13 AM IST
Agencies11 July 2014 4:13 AM IST
Germany insist their only focus is now on winning Sunday’s World Cup final, with the euphoria of their historic 7-1 semifinal drubbing of Brazil quickly forgotten. Full Coverage: World Cup 2014 Germany will face either the Netherlands or Argentina in Sunday’s final at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium, which was their immediate concern in the wake of their stunning semifinal win in Belo Horizonte. ‘We haven’t reached our goal yet, we will put our foot to the floor once again and put our heart and souls into it to win this thing. We can’t run away with ourselves, just as it was said that we were finished after the (last 16 win over) Algeria, now we’ll be praised to the heavens. That’s really the wrong approach, we’re really just a very good team,’ said Thomas Mueller, who scored Germany’s 2000th international goal to kick-off the rout. Germany will now travel to Rio for their eighth World Cup final having avenged their 2-0 defeat to Brazil in the 2002 final in emphatic style. Toni Kroos and Andre Schuerrle both netted twice, while veteran Miroslav Klose made history of his own by scoring his 16th World Cup goal to become the competition’s all-time sole top-scorer. ‘We played an unbelievable game - respect, but another game is yet to come,’ said Toni Kroos .
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