At half past eight o'clock in the evening of the 10th, South African time, the penultimate game of this World Cup was played at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.

The two sides are the Netherlands and Germany, who lost in the semi-finals, and they will decide the rankings. This match can also be seen as a warm-up before the final, some people think that the battle for three or four places is more exciting than the final from a viewing point of view, and both sides of the game have no baggage, which can contribute to everyone a confrontation battle.

The Germans started the game with Ogo on the touchline from the left, Schweinsteiger headed in and Thomas Müller lifted his foot from outside the box!

The soccer ball is over the crossbar!

Two minutes later, the Dutchman returned the color when Robben cut inside on the right and flashed Schweinsteiger on the right and fired a powerful shot from 25 yards out, the ball flying towards the left side of the goal!

Germany substitute goalkeeper Bout made a beautiful side save to keep the ball off the line.

The Germans missed the goal in the 10th minute, Ozil took a corner kick from the right side, and Friedrich headed from the edge of the small penalty area!

Football over Dutch goalkeeper Stekelenburg!

Just when people thought the first goal of the game was about to come, "Pong! ......" with a bang, the football hits the crossbar!

The ball bounced back into the penalty area, Thomas Muller flew forward and pressed Mattieson to head a follow-up shot!

Another Dutch centre-back, Heitinga, blocked the ball with his chest, followed by a big kick that kicked the ball off the touchline, finally deniing the German's incisive set-piece tactics.

Without Sneijder in midfield, the Dutchman's attack relied heavily on Arjen Robben's wide breakaways to threaten the German goal.

In the fourteenth minute, after Robben broke through on the side, he made a horizontal pass and passed the football into the German penalty area, and Van Persie at the front point pressed Friedrich and pushed the near corner!

German goalkeeper Bout instinctively stretched out his left foot to block the ball from the bottom line!

In the eighteenth minute, Germany launched an attack from the right side, Schweinsteiger volleyed with his right foot from 28 meters in front of the goal, and the football flew towards the right side of the goal like a cannonball!

Stekelenberg moved his feet quickly, and with a flying pounce, pounced on the football......

Although the football was blocked by him, it flew towards Thomas Muller, how could Thomas Muller let go of such a great opportunity, met the ball and pushed it, and the football flew into the net from the bottom right corner of the goal!

1 to 0!

The Germans were the first to break the deadlock!

After the goal, Thomas Müller made a provocative gesture of thumbs down to Dutch goalkeeper Stekelenburg!

The Netherlands and Germany are close neighbours, and the two countries are rivals in football, and their feud was tied to the final of the '74 World Cup, and in the '90 World Cup they met in the first round of the knockout round, and the Black Swan Rijkaard clashed with German striker Worrall and was sent off......

Thomas Muller's provocation caused chaos on the pitch, and the two sides got entangled and almost got into a fight. Thanks to the referee's efforts, they managed to avoid a group fight on the court, but the rest of the game became something else entirely, and the actions of both sides became rough.

The Dutchman became ferocious, and in the 28th minute of the first half, Schweinsteiger dribbled the ball near the halfway line, De Jong viciously shoveled the ball away from the side, Kuyt took the ball and quickly advanced to split the ball to the right before Khedira pounced.

After Robben got the ball, he galloped like a ball and took the football to the German penalty area, and the German defense was in chaos!

After the Dutch winger broke through to the front of the penalty area, in the face of the siege of two German defenders, a direct pass, the football drilled into the penalty area, Van Persie moved to meet the ball, and after a light collar on the outside of his right foot, he raised his foot and shot angrily!

A white light flashed and the ball flew past the ten fingers of German goalkeeper Bout and flew into the net from the far corner!

One-to-one!

The Dutchman equalised!

The first half ended in a 1-1 draw, and on the way back to the dressing room, players from both sides almost got into a big fight in the tunnel to set the stage for a more heated scene in the second half.

At the beginning of the second half, there was a shocking scene on the pitch, the German backfield launched a quick counterattack with a long pass, Thomas Muller flew up to stop the ball, and his right side of Heitinga flew a flying leg and kicked his right foot his chest!

Thomas Müller let out a scream and rolled on the turf in pain, the German players swarmed towards Heitinga, and the Dutch players rushed forward......

The referee was a red card for Heitinga, but it still couldn't extinguish the German's anger and the stadium was in chaos......

On the field, players on both sides pulled and spat at each other, the coaches of the two teams on the sidelines scolded each other, and fans on both sides clashed in the stands......

The commentator of Spanish national television said: "Who would have thought that the inconsequential competition of three or four places would be so fierce and so hot? ”

It took a full five minutes for the game to restart, and it was clear that the players from both sides were in a rage and their movements were getting rougher, and the referee had to blow his whistle frequently to interrupt the game.

In the ninth minute of the second half, Robben launched an attack on the right, Van Persie's powerful shot from outside the box was blocked by Bute, and the alert De Jong made a tackle, and the football went into the net!

Two to one!

The Dutchman, who fought with one less man, reversed the score!

To add insult to injury, defender Ogo violated Robben in the fourteenth minute of the second half and got a second yellow card, two yellows turned into one red, and the Germans' numerical advantage was wiped out.

In the 19th minute of the second half, Boateng crossed from the right, and Janssen beat Van Bronckhorst at the back post to strike a ferocious header from six yards out!

The ball flies into the net from the bottom right corner of the goal!

Two to two!

The Germans equalised!

After that, the two sides fell into a stalemate, and the fouls continued.

In the 35th minute of the second half, the Germans got a corner kick opportunity, Ozil took a corner kick from the right side, Friedrich blocked back to the middle, Dutch defender Van der Wiel made a mistake in clearing, and Khedira headed the ball five meters in front of the goal!

The soccer ball flies into the net from the right side of the goal!

Three to two!

The tenacious and tenacious Germans are again ahead!

In the 40th minute of the second half, Robben was brought down by Friedrich, but the referee ignored it, and the angry Van Bommel stepped forward to Friedrich with a mouthful of phlegm.

Van Bommel paid the price for his lack of coolness and the Netherlands had to be numerically inferior again, but that changed after five minutes.

In the 45th minute of the second half, Ozil elbowed Van Persie during a header and was directly sent off with a red card!

In the fourth minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and the German-Dutch battle finally came to an end. However, the battle between the players of both sides did not end, and after the game, they pulled each other on the pitch, and the scene would not have been able to clean up if it had not been for the strong intervention of the stadium security......

The French national television commentator lamented: "The referee showed a total of four red cards and eleven yellow cards in this game, but still could not control the game.

Germany and the Netherlands, two rivals in football, are not here to play tonight, but to fight. (To be continued.) )