The Final | Germany v Argentina | Monday 7am

Or a tight 1-0 to Germany.

Here we go. Cmon Germany!

as bad as the shank was,  the offside from Higuain equals the pits

And Germany lucky to have 11 on the field.

Jesus George

Argentina can afford no more of this wastefullness

Mario Götze has a neckbeard. This means bad things for world fashion.

Best team won.

What a goal to win it too!

You psychic you!

Can now go to work  happy with the result.

Bloody good game for a final I thought. Could have been a goal-fest if the chances had been taken. Messi will remember his missed header for the next 4 years. And Higuain that first clear chance. Brill goal by Goetze to give Germans a deserved win. But the Argies will have regrets for sure.

Fitting final to a great World Cup.

They think its all over... you bet your ass it is!

I thought Argentina played slightly better and had better chances. But nothing in it really, so fair enough result.

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The best team won - but that Igyian or whatever would be pretty pissed off right now...

Cracking final. I thought both teams played with positive intent and the winner was a good goal well taken.

Messi player of the tournament? Hmmm......

Messi scored a great goal and had a few asists but I thought he was anonymous for pretty much the whole tournament. I can't stand Robben but I admit that I thought he was far more stand out.

Happy for the Arsenal players so we now have three World Cup winners. Best team won in the end and I think safe to say the two best teams were in the final.

Ridiculous to give Messi that award because of his name though. No way was he the best player of the tournament and he looked embarrassed going up to get it. Any number of German players should have got it ahead of him. Guys like Schweinsteiger, Muller or Kroos deserved it more, but probably Neuer above all of them. And not to mention the likes of Robben and Rodriguez.

Other than that free kick, Messi had as good a tournament as Rooney. I was actually suprised how a lot of defences managed to keep him under wraps.

Mascherano had a far better tournament than Messi.

So did Di Maria to be fair.

Yeah, na. Messi ....distance.....more distance.....Rooney.

Mueller for me.

Man of the match for me was Vitaly Zdorovetskiy

lucky he wasn't machine-gunned

Here's two 10 years of teutonic smuggery.

Congratulations to Germany ...Argentiina wasted at least 2 great scoring opportunities (another Rm 100 wasted!!).  I'm a Messi fan BUT giving him the Golden Ball award is ridiculous.  Maybe Rodriguez or Muller ...

Messi wasn't even Argenina's best player (Mascherano...)

I'd throw Rodgriquez and Robben higher as well.

When Robben wasn't diving, he played an important role in the Dutch style of play, even defending. I take my hat off to him for that. 100% effort every game. Messi seemed to spend a lot of his game time walking around. We only saw small glimpses of a player whom has an obvious gift but chose not to use it.

Messi is not as fit as Robben.

Enjoyed that, pretty good game for a final and my German mate was apprehensive all the way through, happy to win it but he recognised that Argentina could easily have taken the prize.  George Gregan's four more years rugby taunt would have had it's 24 more years equivalent for Germany if they'd not done it this time.  Consistent performers, close to the top for so many recent World Cups.  

Hard to argue they weren't the best team over the tournament.  And also worth recognising they lost two midfielders - immediately before and fairly early during the final.  And the major restructuring of German football it took for them to get where they are.

Is anyone as fit as Robben? I heard he was an absolute beast when it comes to fitness.

Good final.

Argentina got their tactics bang on and had the Germans rattled on many occasions. The Argies closed down space and pressed well. They seemed happy to let the krauts have the wide areas and then defended on mass in the central channels. Mascharano was a beast on defense. He was my man of the match. The Argies screwed it up because they did everything right except take their chances. Higuin wasted that early chance, and later on their striker missed that lob. However the big big disappointment was Messi. He walked around most of the game and only gave a few flashes of his normal brilliance. He missed a clear chance when though on goal.....shot across the keeper but missed by a metre.....Messi circa 2010 would have buried that. He is a shadow of what he was a few years ago.

Ridiculous how Messi got man of the tournament. Robbin, Rodriguez, Mascharano or Neuer were all much much better

You could say the same for the German Team, they had their tactic bang on.
A better fighting spirit and wunderkind Götze made the difference.

One thing I love about football is that 7 of the last 8 World Cup Finalists have been different nations.

The most ever in a four cup cycle

12 different finalists in all

Germany 8; Brazil 7; Italy 6; Argentina 5; Netherlands 3; Uruguay, France, Hungary, Czech Republic 2; England, Spain, Sweden,1

But since 1970, just the same 7

7 nations 2002-2014

14 Germany Argentina

10 Spain Netherlands

06 Italy France

02 Brazil Germany

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5 nations 1986-1998

98 France Brazil

94 Brazil Italy

90 Germany Argentina

86 Argentina Germany

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5 nations 1970-1982

82 Italy Germany

78 Argentina Netherlands

74 Germany Netherlands

70 Brazil Italy

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6 nations 1954-1966

66 England Germany

62 Brazil Czech Republic

58 Brazil Sweden

54 Germany Hungary

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6 nations 1930-1950

50 Uruguay Brazil

38 Italy Hungary

34 Italy Czech Republic

30 Uruguay Argentina

"Messi reminded me a lot of Vinnie Lia" ;)