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Lukas Podolski
Germany v England
South Africa 2010 | Last 16
Free State Stadium | Bloemfontein
“The way England played left them so open,” said Joachim Low post-game. “The gameplan was to hit them on the counter-attack. My players pulled it off perfectly.”
Germany had sensationally scored four times on the counter to crush fierce foes England. The pick of them belonged to a team move that unravelled Fabio Capello’s men. Mesut Ozil, Miroslav Klose and Thomas Muller combined superbly to set up Lukas Podolski, whose fizzing finish found the bottom corner of David James’s goal.
