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And at the end, the Germans always win...
A fantastic show in Porto Alegre! Algerians bravely fought Germans off for 120 minutes but Vahid Halihodzić's squad ran out of energy and lost to the bronze medalists from 2010 World Cup. Joachim Loew's team will face France in the quarter-final.
30th of June 2014, 22:00 – Porto Alegre (Estádio José Pinheiro Borda)
Germany – Algeria 2:1 (0:0)
Goals: Andre Schürrle 92, Mesut Özil 119 – Abdelmoumene Djabou 120.
Germany: Manuel Neuer – Shokran Mustafi (70, Sami Khedira), Jérôme Boateng, Per Mertesacker, Benedikt Höwedes – Mesut Özil, Bastian Schweinsteiger (109, Cristoph Kramer), Philipp Lahm, Toni Kroos, Mario Götze (46, Andre Schürrle) – Thomas Müller.
Algeria: Raïs M'Bolhi – Aïssa Mandi, Mehdi Mostefa, Essaïd Belkalem, Rafik Halliche (97 Madjid Bougherra), Faouzi Ghoulam – Sofiane Feghouli, Mehdi Lacen, Saphir Taider (78, Yacine Brahimi), El Arbi Hillel Soudani (100, Abdelmoumene Djabou) – Islam Slimani.
Yellow cards: Lahm – Halliche.
Referee: Sandro Ricci (Brazil).
