Team: Uruguay vs. Germany
Date & Time: 10 Jul 2:30pm (ET)
Stadium: Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Place: Port Elizabeth
Both the teams have to forget their semi-final heartbreak in order to capture bronze at the mondial stage.
The coaches of both teams insist they take this game seriously as they look to end the tournament on a high. “I have got to try to wake up the team. We will approach the match seriously,” said Germany coach Joachim Loew after the semi-final against Spain (1-0 loss).
Uruguay proved to be the surprise pack of this World Cup, claiming a place in the semi-finals was already a surprise; grabbing third place would be a real miracle for the small country.
Uruguay manager Oscar Tabarez knows his team will do everything they can to defeat Germany. “This is a very difficult game,” he said.
The World Cup statistics prove that this could turn out to be a very exciting match. You have to go back to 1974, when Poland edged Brazil 1-0, for fewer than three in the third-place play-off, while the last two have produced five and four respectively. Read More!