RIO DE JANEIRO — This World Cup has been one of the most compelling ever, with one dramatic game after another, the emergence of new stars and results no one saw coming. (Sorry, Brazil. Not trying to rub it in.)
So it’s only fitting that Sunday’s final features Germany and Argentina. With apologies to Brazil, the Netherlands, Colombia, Costa Rica and everyone else, there is no better matchup.
Germany is the best team in the tournament. Argentina has the best player on the planet.
Germany can score goals in bunches. Argentina has given up just three, and none since the group stage.
Germany has been a fixture in the final four for the last decade. Argentina’s best view of the final lately has been from its couch.
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As if all that’s not enticing enough, this is the mother of all grudge matches. Not only have the teams met in the final twice before — Argentina won in 1986, Germany got payback four years later — but Germany has knocked Argentina out of the last two World Cups, each time in the quarterfinals.
“(We’ve) had fascinating duels in the past,” Germany coach Joachim Low said Saturday. “I think it’s going to be really a gripping final.”
Speaking of grudges, just imagine how devastating it would be for Brazilians to see Argentina, their fiercest rival, win the World Cup in the famed Maracana. But I digress.
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