Japan/South Korea 2012 was the World Cup of upsets and surprise teams: Turkey, Senegal, South Korea, USA. It seemed like all of a sudden the form book had been thrown out the window, like the tiem of the football superpowers reaching semifinals and finals had come to an end. The new order of football was upon us.
And then along came Germany to remind us that some things will never change. Poor Saudi Arabia were swept away in a good old fashioned thrashing, the likes of which had not been seen at a World Cup since Hungary got a little carried away with thinking about goal difference in their 10-1 win against El Salvador in 1982. The Germans won 8-0 and played with an air of "what's all the fuss about" after Senegal had beaten France in the opening match.
The side story to this match is that Miroslav Klose scored a hat-trick. This was the beginning of the German striker's incredible World Cup run which ended in 2014 with 16 goals which put him at the top of the all-time list of World Cup goalscorers with 16 goals.
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