The German U23 machines today recorded their biggest men’s football win at the Olympics since the United Arab Republic beat South Korea 10-0 at Tokyo 1964. Germany’s win still fell short of the record, which is held by Denmark for a 17-1 win over France in 1908.
The 10-goal thriller saw Freiburg’s youngster, Nils Petersen netting five times in Belo Horizonte on Wednesday, while Schalke’s Max Meyer scored a hat-trick and Arsenal Serge Gnabry hitting thee back of the net twice.
It was yet another drubbing at these Games for Fiji, who suffered 8-0 and 5-1 losses to South Korea and Mexico respectively. Meanwhile, champions at London 2012, Mexico are out after suffering a 1-0 loss to South Korea, who topped Group C ahead of Germany. Both South Korea and Germany are through to the quarter finals of the competition.