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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Germany secures third place with 3-2 win

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PORT ELIZ­A­BETH–Sa­mi Khedi­ra scored a late goal yes­ter­day to give Ger­many a 3-2 vic­to­ry over Uruguay and third place for the sec­ond straight World Cup. Khedi­ra scored with a head­er in the 82nd minute af­ter the Uruguay de­fense failed to clear a cor­ner from Mesut Oezil. The goal end­ed Uruguay's hopes of beat­ing Ger­many for the first time in 82 years, while the Ger­mans fin­ished in the top three for the 11th time. Diego For­lan hit the cross­bar with the last kick of the match in in­jury time, a free kick from the edge of the area.Uruguay had come from be­hind to lead 2-1 when For­lan volleyed in Egidio Areva­lo's 51st-minute cross for his fifth goal of the tour­na­ment. Ger­many de­fend­er Mar­cell Jansen lev­eled five min­utes lat­er with a head­er af­ter goal­keep­er Fer­nan­do Muslera mis­judged a cross. Thomas Mueller gave Ger­many the lead in the 18th minute, his fifth goal at the World Cup, sweep­ing the ball home af­ter Bas­t­ian Schwe­in­steiger's swerv­ing shot had been stopped by Muslera.

Edin­son Ca­vani equalised for Uruguay in the 28th when he slid a shot past goal­keep­er Hans Jo­erg Butt. Uruguay has beat­en Ger­many on­ly once in ten match­es, in 1928. Ger­many beat Uruguay in the third-place match in 1970–the last time Uruguay reached the semi­fi­nals. Ger­many's young team was miss­ing five reg­u­lars through in­jury and ill­ness, in­clud­ing strik­er Miroslav Klose. Klose missed a chance to match or beat the World Cup scor­ing record of 15 goals, held by Brazil strik­er Ronal­do. In an ac­tion-packed match, Butt had two good saves from Luis Suarez and For­lan af­ter his team's sec­ond goal. The 36-year-old vet­er­an, who was third-choice goal­keep­er in 2002, got his World Cup de­but in­stead of reg­u­lar Manuel Neuer. In its last three World Cup tour­na­ments, Ger­many was run­ner-up in 2002 and third in 2006 at home. (AP)


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