2010 Germany England world cup Scores and Highlights: GER v ENG world cup - The match in Bloemfontein offered more than enough to drag thoughts away from the past. Germany were sharper in attack as they exposed the England back four time and again.

The opener was a humiliation as a kick-out from the goalkeeper Manuel Neuer saw Miroslav Klose holding off Matthew Upson with ease before scoring in the 20th minute.

Germany should take heart from the fact that the last time the two sides met in the World Cup finals, they won on penalties in Italia '90 in the semis.

Six years later in the last four of Euro '96, Germany once again knocked out the Three Lions in the penalty shootout. The joke is that if the last 16 clash goes to penalties, then England may as well not take their spotkicks as the Germans are bound to win.

This is the heaviest defeat England have known at a World Cup finals, outdoing a 4-2 loss to Uruguay in 1954. That is meaningful mostly as a measure of England's terrible fallibility in defense