Germany vs. Argentina was one of the most anticipated games of the world cup and worthy of being a final. This was yet another match that the experts predicted would go down to the wire and end up in a penalty shootout but it wasn’t to be. Argentina suffered their worst world cup defeat in 52 years and went down 4-0 to Germany.

Germany came out firing on all cylinders and they scored in the 3rd minute through Mueller. Schweinsteiger took a free kick that sent the ball curling into the goal. Mueller was left unmarked and had no problems putting in a superb header to give Germany a 1-0 lead.

Ghana, the only African team left in the competition were finally eliminated by Uruguay in a penalty shootout which finished on 4-2. The match was forced into a penalty shoot out after both teams tied in at 1-1.

Sulley Muntari gave Ghana the lead a few minutes before the first half and Uruguay for the first time in the tournament were forced to play catch up. They came back strong in the second half, when Diego Forlan scored yet again with a superb free kick to even the score at 1-1.

Luis Suarez was in the limelight this time for all the wrong reasons. He received a red card after he threw his left arm up and stopped a header from Dominic Adiyiah which would have resulted in a certain goal.