Three times champions Germany led by a solitary goal against USA in their crucial Group G match of the FIFA World Cup 2014 at the rain-soaked Arena Pernambuco Recife in Brazil till filing this report on Thursday night .Thomas Muller of Germany broke the dead-lock by scoring a goal in the 55th minute of the play.The USA presented a better brand of football than their European opponents but they failed to score any goal before the lemon-break. The USA players created more moves than Germany but all those went in vein.The USA players created more moves than Germany but all those went in vein.Heavy rains in Recife, Brazil led to street flooding that made it difficult for fans and media to get to the Arena Pernambuco for the game between the United States and Germany.The ball was moving very slowly across the pitch. Saturated from the rain and flooding.If Team USA and Germany simply equal each other’s goal tallies, both sides will go through to the knockout rounds. In most cases, it would be expected that the two sides should line up in highly defensive formations and show little adventure, committing only the minimum number of men to any attack. If both sides play defensively, the draw will come regardless of any conspiracy.After that match, FIFA made sure that final group matches are played simultaneously, to reduce the possibility of a `gentlemen’s agreement.’Germany and the United States are linked in many ways. Five players on the U.S. team have American fathers and German mothers, with four of them playing in the Bundesliga.U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann was a star of the Germany team that won the last of its three World Cup titles in 1990. He also scored when the two teams last met in the group sage of a World Cup, a 2-0 victory for Germany at the 1998 tournament in France.In 2006 at home, Klinsmann guided Germany to a third-place finish as coach, with assistant Joachim Loew, who is now Germany’s coach. Berti Vogts, one of Klinsmann’s staff, was the coach of Germany when it won its last title, the 1996 European Championship.Loew and Klinsmann remain good friends, but Loew has said he would not be talking to Klinsmann during the tournament.Klinsmann too has dismissed any collusion.
