2002 FIFA World Cup (tm) Finals - Results & Fixtures - Germany vs Saudi Arabia

1 Jun 2002


Germany	8 - 0	Saudi Arabia
	(HT: 4 - 0)

Game Details
Venue Sapporo Dome	Attendance 32218
Referee Ubaldo Aquino (PAR) Assistant Referees Miguel Giacomuzzi (PAR) Michael Ragoonath (TRI)

Game Events
#	Date	Player	Event	Period	Mins	H/A
1	1 Jun 2002	Miroslav Klose	Goal	First Half	20	H
2	1 Jun 2002	Miroslav Klose	Goal	First Half	25	H
3	1 Jun 2002	Michael Ballack	Goal	First Half	40	H
4	1 Jun 2002	Christian Ziege	Yellow Card	First Half	43	H
5	1 Jun 2002	Carsten Jancker	Goal	First Half	46	H
6	1 Jun 2002	Carsten Ramelow	Player Out	Second Half	1	H
7	1 Jun 2002	Jens Jeremies	Substitute In	Second Half	1	H
8	1 Jun 2002	Nawaf Al-Temyat	Player Out	Second Half	1	A
9	1 Jun 2002	Ibrahim Suwayed Al-Shahrani	Substitute In	Second Half	1	A
10	1 Jun 2002	Khamis Al-Ouairan Al-Dossari	Player Out	Second Half	1	A
11	1 Jun 2002	Abdel Aziz Al-Khathran	Substitute In	Second Half	1	A
12	1 Jun 2002	Carsten Jancker	Player Out	Second Half	22	H
13	1 Jun 2002	Oliver Bierhoff	Substitute In	Second Half	22	H
14	1 Jun 2002	Miroslav Klose	Goal	Second Half	25	H
15	1 Jun 2002	Thomas Linke	Goal	Second Half	28	H
16	1 Jun 2002	Miroslav Klose	Player Out	Second Half	31	H
17	1 Jun 2002	Oliver Neuville	Substitute In	Second Half	31	H
18	1 Jun 2002	Al-Hassan Al-Yami	Player Out	Second Half	32	A
19	1 Jun 2002	Abdallah Al-Jamaan Al-Dossari	Substitute In	Second Half	32	A
20	1 Jun 2002	Dietmar Hamann	Yellow Card	Second Half	38	H
21	1 Jun 2002	Oliver Bierhoff	Goal	Second Half	39	H
22	1 Jun 2002	Mohamed Nour Al-Hossawi	Yellow Card	Second Half	45	A
23	1 Jun 2002	Bernd Schneider	Goal	Second Half	46	H

Match report

Three-time winners Germany defied their critics by crushing Saudi Arabia 8-0 in their opening Group E World Cup match at the revolutionary Sapporo Dome on Saturday. Kaiserslautern striker Miroslav Klose helped himself to a hat-trick, all from headers, as the Saudis were totally overwhelmed. Michael Ballack, Carsten Jancker, Thomas Linke, the veteran Oliver Bierhoff all scored and Bernd Schneider scored number eight from a free kick to notch up the biggest winning margin at a World Cup finals since Hungary beat El Salvador 10-1 in 1982.
Pre-tournament expectations were low for the injury-ravaged Germans and despite this free-scoring performance, their next match, against Ireland on Wednesday, should be a truer test of how far Rudi Voller's squad can progress. Germany had strolled to a 4-0 half-time lead under the closed roof at the domed stadium where England and Argentina meet on June 7. Klose opened the scoring with a diving header in the 20th minute before leaping above the defence to head home Ballack's pinpoint cross for the second goal five minutes later as he and the towering Jancker tormented the Saudi defence with their strength and height. Ballack, showing no effects of his foot injury, added the third with a header from a Christian Ziege cross six minutes from the break and Jancker's pressure was rewarded with a close-range shot in first half-stoppage time.
The Saudis failed to improve in the second half and coach Nasser al-Johar has a mountain to climb to lift his team for their next match against African champions Cameroon. Saudi's former Asian Player of the Year Nawaf Al Temyat hardly touched the ball and only veteran striker and captain Sami al-Jaber gave the Germans any problems. The German captain, goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, was completely untroubled.
Voller's team began the second half at a stroll and Torsten Frings should have had a penalty for a trip by Abdulaziz Khathran. Bierhoff came on for Jancker midway through the first half before Klose grabbed his third, nodding a header past al-Deayea on 69 minutes. Linke's goal four minutes later followed a well-worn formula of a lofted cross to the back post for a headed finish and Bierhoff piled on the humiliation as he steered the ball past the forlorn al-Deayea in the 84th minute to make it 7-0. Schneider's curling free kick completed the rout in injury-time.

(courtesy of dailysoccer)




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