“Even before Portugal went down to 10 men we were dominating the game,” Joachim L?w said. “We knew their main attacking threats would be Ronaldo and Nani and we controlled them quite comfortably. We sealed them off. We said before the start that our only option was to try and win this game – any other result would have been unacceptable – and we made an excellent opening to the World Cup.

“即使在葡萄牙10人應戰之前，我就就已經把比賽掌控在手中了。”約阿希姆·勒夫說。“我們知道他們主要的進攻威脅是C羅和納尼，我們輕松控制住了他們。我們把他們搞定了。賽前我就說，努里贏球是我們唯一的選擇——任何其他結果都不可接受——我們已經在世界杯上取得了美妙的開局。”