On a day when 28 of the 32 World Cup finalists were in action, the biggest surprise look place at Munich’s Allianz Arena, where Diego Maradona‘s Argentinastunned Germany, 1-0, on Gonzalo Higuain‘s goal in the 45th minute.
The performance was perhaps Argentina’s best under Maradona. “We needed to showourselves we could do what we did today,” he said. “We wanted to show against a good team that we are alive and we understand the moment of the Argentine national team, which has not won the World Cupfor 24 years.”
Germany, on the other hand, played poorly. Young Mesut Oezil was ineffective and replaced by Brazilian-born