Two-time world champions Germany were shocked by Colombia as Linda Caicedo opened the scoring and Manuela Vanega supplied the game-winner in injury time
Germany’s Alexandra Popp was the striker expected to wreak her usual composed havoc at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday evening’s final World Cup match.
But it was Colombia’s 18-year-old Linda Caicedo who provided the world with a demonstration in clinical ruthlessness – and just days after collapsing.
After a first half in which an undaunted and physical Colombia duly rattled the two-time world champions, the Real Madrid forward opened the scoring with a peach of a goal â evading Svenja Huth just outside the penalty area on the left before dipping inside Sara Däbritz and unfurling a rising curler into the right side netting.
The technique was exquisite, the composure mind-melting and the deja vu impossible to ignore.