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GERMANY vs SAUDI ARABIA

Match Report below

Match Stats: -

GROUP E

MAN OF THE MATCH: Miroslav Klose (Germany)

Teams:

Germany: 1-Oliver Kahn
                 21-Christoph Metzelder
                   5-Carsten Ramelow (16-Jens Jeremies 46)
                   2-Thomas Linke
                 22-Torsten Frings
                   8-Dietmar Hamann
                 19-Bernd Schneider
                 13-Michael Ballack
                   6-Christian Ziege
                 11-Miroslav Klose (7-Oliver Neuville 77)
                   9-Carsten Jancker (20-Oliver Bierhoff 67).

Saudi Arabia:  1-Mohammed Al-Deayea
                         3-Redha Tukar
                       13-Hussein Sulimani
                         4-Abdullah Sulaiman
                       12-Ahmed Dokhi
                       16-Khamis Al-Owairan (7-Ibrahim Al-Shahrani 46) 
                         8-Mohammed Noor
                       18-Nawaf Al-Temyat (14-Abdulaziz Al-Khathran 46)
                       17-Abdallah Al-Waked
                         9-Sami Al-Jaber
                       20-Al-Hassan Al-Yami (15-Abdullah Jumaan 77)

Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
Linesmen: Miguel Giacomuzzi (Paraguay) and Michael Ragoonath (Trinidad)

Match Report: - 

No shock win was accomplished here, but a shocking win from Germany as they absolutely hammered Saudi Arabia 8-0. The match was dominated by Germany and Saudi Arabia could only welcome the final whistle to spare further embarrassment as the score could so easily have been in double figures. Former 24 year old roof tiler Miroslav Klose stole the show with a hatrick after 70 minutes, in his first World Cup International 18 months after becoming a professional footballer. The victory completely unsurprisingly sent Germany to the head of Group E.