Referee: Marco Antonio Rodriguez (Mexico)
LINEUPS:
Germany (451): Neuer, Lahm, Boateng, Friedrich, Mertesacker, Schweinsteiger, Oezil (Marin 61'), Khedira, Klose (Kiessling 87'), Podolski, Mueller (Gomez 70')
Australia (451): Schwarzer, Wilkshire, Carney, Neill, Moore (Vidosic 61'), Valeri, Holman, Cahill (Grella 81'), Kennedy, Culina, Emerton (Kewell 61')
A convincing German victory was not going to surprise many but the score does not reflect the whole match. Australia played a hard and generally fair game but this strategy brought about an early chance for Miroslav Klose when David Carney brought down the striker in the penalty area. Klose himself stepped up to take the spot kick and cooly gave Germany a 1-0 lead after only ten minutes.
The Australians then found themselves competing with their opponents and had a sudden rush of chances through some well rehearsed set pieces. After Lahm had fouled Tim Cahill, earning him a lecture from the referee, the free kick was played square to Jason Culina whose long range effort was tipped round the post by Neuer in spectacular fashion. The resulting corner ended up at the feet of Kennedy who rattled the post, and another corner soon after forced Neuer to make another stop at his near post; Holman with that chance.
After this sudden swing in momentum Germany all but won the game before half time. First Klose scored again, Boateng's excellent pass splitting the defence for him. That was followed by another great pass, this time from Podolski, finding Sami Khedira who beat his marker and stuck it into the bottom corner. Australia continued to have chances in the second half, Kennedy again beating Neuer but shooting too high. The Germans then added some icing with Khedira winning a battle with Cahill and feeding Mario Gomez for a breakaway goal.
Germany 4 - 0 Australia
Goalscorers:
GER Klose 11'
GER Klose 38'
GER Khedira 45'
GER Gomez 73'
Discipline:
AUS Carney 10'
AUS Emerton 10'
Man of the Match:
GER Miroslav Klose
| GROUP D | ||||||||
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 3 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 3 |
| Serbia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
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