Euro Duo Take The Spoils

After a superb month of football which has been the highest scoring and most unpredictable World Cup of all time, the tournament came to a end with two final games.

The third/fourth play off saw the host nation Brazil humbled for a second successive game as they fell to a 3-0 defeat to Holland and the Dutch joy began early on as Van Persie converted from the penalty spot after only three minutes.

The lead was increased just 13 minutes later as Blind continued his fine form in the competition with a superb goal but there was no real response from Brazil and their woeful end to the tournament continued as Wijnaldum made it 3-0 in the final minute to claim third place for Holland.

Sunday night saw the culmination of the entire tournament come to a head as Germany and Argentina contested the World Cup Final and a tight first 90 minutes saw the sides unable to be separated on the scoreboard and even with extra time ticking on it looked like penalties would be the likely divider.

However, Germany had other ideas and in the 113th minute a superb passage of play saw a superb cross find Gotze on the chest before unleashed a spectacular volley that sailed past Romero and had the German crowd in ecstasy. The roar from the German crowd continued until the final whistle where they celebrated a first World Cup title since 1990.