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World Cup 2010 Photo Gallery : Australia vs. Germany
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Jun 14 2010, 12:36 pm - by Dipto
Private Message	Germany seem to have a have the bit between their teeth and are running rings round Australia ... Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP It's Germany's time to shine now and they have stepped their game up a gear. Just after the half-hour mark, Mesut Ozil chips the ball over the the top of the onushing Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer but it's cleared before it crosses the line Photograph: Tony Marshall/Empics Sport The young and now attack-minded German side double their lead 18 minutes later when Schwarzer hares out of the Aussie goal to flap at a cross but is too slow and Miroslav Klose rises high to head into an empty net. 2-0... Photograph: Jamie McDonald/Getty Images The whistle goes to start the match and it looks like the ageing Socceroos have been necking Red Bull rather than Horlicks as they come straight out of the blocks and dominate the first seven minutes creating a couple of chances and almost scoring in the third minute. Then, in the seventh minute, like a teenager who eventually gets out of bed ages after the alarm goes off, the Germans eventually seem to wake up and create their first chance with a shot that Aussie keeper Schwarzer comfortably deals with. Just a minute later, youthful exuberance wins over older conservativism when Muller is released down the inside-right channel. Once in the area, he cuts a low diagonal ball back towards the left-hand corner of the area, where Lukas Podolski races in to hammer high into the net. 1-0 Photograph: Jamie McDonald/Getty Images Then things gets even worse for the Socceroos just before the hour mark when Tim Cahill is shown a red card by Marco Antonio Rodriguez after a challenge on Bastian Schweinsteiger. It was a clumsy foul rather than a malicious one as the Aussie striker bundled into the German but for some reason the referee produced a straight red, showed it to the shocked striker and wreck Cahill's, and possibly, Australia's World Cup Photograph: Tony O'Brien/Action Images Now with the numerical advantage, Germany continue to surge foward and pepper the Australian goal with shots. Then in the 68th minute Thomas Mueller definitely puts the game beyond doubt when he drops a shoulder on the edge of the Aussie area to confuse Neill and give himself a smidgen of space to stroke a shot off the post at the bottom-left corner and into the net. 3-0 Photograph: Ali Haider/EPA
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