“Even before Portugal went down to 10 men we were dominating the game,” Joachim Löw 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人应战之前，我就就已经把比赛掌控在手中了。”约阿希姆·勒夫说。“我们知道他们主要的进攻威胁是C罗和纳尼，我们轻松控制住了他们。我们把他们搞定了。赛前我就说，努里赢球是我们唯一的选择——任何其他结果都不可接受——我们已经在世界杯上取得了美妙的开局。”