mario götze scored the winning goal in 2014 world cup.
mario götze scored the winning goal in 2014 world cup.
who scored the winning goal in 2014 world cup?
mario götze
klose scored his record-equalling 15th world cup goal to help germany to a 2–2 draw against ghana on 21 june 2014, after entering the game as a 69th minute substitute for mario götze (who had scored germany's first goal) with his team trailing 2–1. this tied him with the brazilian player ronaldo. with this goal, klose became the third player in history to score in four different world cups. on 8 july, klose scored a record 16th world cup goal in the 23rd minute against brazil in the semi-finals, his second goal of the 2014 world cup. that goal gave germany a 2–0 lead, "en route" to a 7–1 win over brazil, and klose surpassed ronaldo's previous record of 15 world cup goals. klose set another record by becoming the first player to appear in four consecutive world cup semi-finals. klose started in the world cup final against argentina, playing until the 88th minute when he was substituted for mario götze. götze would score the 113th-minute goal which held up as the winning goal in germany's 1–0 victory over argentina, earning germany's fourth world cup title overall and first as a reunited country. klose announced his retirement from international football one month after the world cup final.
miroslav klose
the game's result was the biggest winning margin in a world cup semi-final or final. the outcome was also the worst loss by a host country in world cup history, as the six-goal difference doubled the previous record margin. by the end of the game, a total of 167 goals had been scored at the 2014 world cup, the 2nd-most at a single world cup, after 1998 with 171 goals. with 18 total shots on target, the match had the joint-most shots on target of any match in 90 minutes at the 2014 world cup. the match also had the fastest four goals scored in world cup history, with germany scoring in the span of six minutes (from 23' to 29'); in 1954, austria took seven minutes (25' to 32') and in 1982, hungary also took seven minutes (69' to 76') to score four goals. germany equalled the record for most goals scored against the host nation of the world cup, with austria defeating switzerland 7–5 in the 1954 world cup. germany also overtook brazil to become the all-time highest-scoring team in fifa world cup history, their total of 223 at full-time passing brazil's 221. before the match brazil and germany were even with seven world cup finals each, the german victory made them the only squad to reach 8 finals.
brazil v germany (2014 fifa world cup)