West Germany 3-2 Hungary
\nSwitzerland 1954 | Final
\nWankdorf Stadium, Bern
\nAttendance: 62,500
\nGoals: Puskas (6), Czibor (8), Morlock (10), Rahn (18), Rahn (84)<\/p>\n
Teams
\nWest Germany
\nToni Turek; Jupp Posipal, Werner Liebrich, Werner Kohlmeyer; Horst Eckel, Karl Mai; Helmut Rahn, Max Morlock, Ottmar Walter, Fritz Walter, Hans Schafer.
\nCoach: Sepp Herberger<\/p>\n
Hungary
\nGyula Grosics, Jeno Buzanszky, Gyula Lorant, Mihaly Lantos; Jozsef Bozsik, Jozsef Zakarias; Zoltan Czbior, Sandor Kocsis, Nandor Hidegkuti, Ferenc Puskas, Mihaly Toth.
\nCoach: Gusztav Sebes<\/p>\n
Going into the game
\nHungary remain the most emphatic final favourites in World Cup history. They had, seven months earlier, become the first overseas team to beat England at Wembley. They followed that 6-3 beatdown up with a 7-1 crushing of the same side less than a month before Switzerland 1954 began. The Magical Magyars then averaged scoring 6.25 goals per game to waltz into the Wankdorf decider. Furthermore, they had Puskas, the best player on the planet, back from injury.<\/p>\n
Frighteningly, West Germany knew their 8-3 thrashing by Hungary in the group stage flattered them. \u2018Only\u2019 losing by five goals had been indebted to Puskas limping off at the start of the second half in an era in which substitutions didn\u2019t exist. If that dampened any hope of a giant-slaying, the conditions restored some. It was chucking it down in Bern, which was something referred to back home as \u2018Fritz Walter weather\u2019, and the West German players had innovative screw-in studs to deal with the rain.<\/p>\n
Hitherto head-to-head record
\n\u06f8 Hungary wins
\n\u06f6 draws
\n\u06f5 West Germany wins<\/p>\n
The game
\nHerberger stressed it was \u201cessential we don\u2019t get off to a bad start like we did in the group\u201d, but West Germany got off to a worse one, with Puskas and Czibor establishing a two-goal advantage inside eight minutes. If the biggest victory in a World Cup final had been predicted pre-match, it had been all but printed. Not for long. A predatory Morlock goal halved the deficit, before a Rahn header had the underdogs promptly back at parity.<\/p>\n
It initiated an incessant assault on the West Germany goal. Hidegkuti rattled the post, Kocsis headed against the crossbar, Kohlmeyer made two desperate goal-line clearances, and Turek made two exceptional saves. Then, with six minutes remaining, Hungary were hit with a sucker punch. Rahm\u2019s pass-fake left multiple adversaries wrong-footed, and his fierce finish made the bottom corner. Puskas thought he\u2019d equalised following a Kocsis flick-on, but it was ruled out for offside. The final whistle swiftly sounded to signal one of the most seismic shocks in football history.<\/p>\n
Quotes
\n\u201cThere\u2019s never been another team like us. We didn\u2019t just beat teams, but beat really strong teams with ease. The statistics don\u2019t lie. We lost just once in 50 games. Unfortunately it was in the biggest game of our lives. It\u2019s a tragedy.\u201d
\nZoltan Czibor<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was disbelief when we got into the dressing room. The mood was sombre. We were thinking, \u2018Have we really just become world champions?\u2019 Then Herberger snapped us to our senses. \u2018We\u2019ve beaten Hungary, we\u2019re world champions, let\u2019s sing!\u2019 We sung and sung, getting louder and louder. We were in a dream.\u201d
\nHorst Eckel<\/p>\n
\u201cSuddenly Germany was somebody again. For anybody who grew up in the misery of the post-war years, Bern was an extraordinary inspiration. The entire country regained its self-esteem.\u201d
\nFranz Beckenbauer<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt \u2013 and still feel \u2013 an enormous sense of loss, that something went out of my life that has never been restored. It\u2019s more than 40 years ago now, but if someone was to wake me up tomorrow morning and remind me of that match, I\u2019d burst into tears.\u201d
\nGyula Grosics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
West Germany 3-2 Hungary Switzerland 1954 | Final Wankdorf Stadium, Bern Attendance: 62,500 Goals: Puskas (6), Czibor (8), Morlock (10), Rahn (18), Rahn (84) Teams West Germany Toni Turek; Jupp Posipal, Werner Liebrich, Werner Kohlmeyer; Horst Eckel, Karl Mai; Helmut Rahn, Max Morlock, Ottmar Walter, Fritz Walter, Hans Schafer. Coach: Sepp Herberger Hungary Gyula Grosics, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1008826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20966],"tags":[9648,27192],"class_list":["post-1008825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa-news","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}