PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL ¨C Germany had to battle all the way into extra time to beat Algeria 2-1 in their World Cup second-round clash on Monday, crushing the North Africans¡¯ dream of revenge and setting up a quarterfinal duel against fellow former champion France.
The Germans were pushed hard by an inspired Algeria before goals from Andre Schuerrle and Mesut Ozil sealed victory in a tense game marked by swift Algerian counterattacks and a second-half German barrage of the Desert Foxes¡¯ goal mouth.
The North African outsiders, representing the hopes of the Arab world, played with energy and confidence to regularly expose a static German defense but the European team¡¯s power and fitness counted in the end.
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