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===Scoring===
Despite the early goals that flooded the group stages, the knock-out phase had a much lower goals per match ratio. A prime example of the dearth of goals was Portugal, which only scored in the 23rd minute of the round of 16, and did not score again until the 88th minute of the third place play-off. No player managed to score a hat-trick in this tournament. Italy, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and France were the only teams to score more than one goal in a knockout match. Germany was one of the exceptions, tending to play an attacking style of football throughout the knock-out stage, which was reflected by the fact that they scored the most goals (14), with players from all three outfield positions (defence, midfield and forward) making the scoresheet.

Germany's [[Miroslav Klose]] scored five goals to claim the Golden Boot, the lowest total to win the prize since [[1962 FIFA World Cup|1962]]. No other player scored more than three goals. No player from the winning Italian squad scored more than two goals, though ten players had scored for the team, tying France's record in [[1982 FIFA World Cup|1982]] for the most goalscorers from any one team.

For the first time ever in the FIFA World Cup, the first and last goals of the tournament were scored by defenders. German [[Defender (association football)#Full-back|left-back]] [[Philipp Lahm]] scored the opener against Costa Rica after only 5&nbsp;minutes of the opening match. In the final, Italian [[Defender (association football)#Centre-back|centre-back]] [[Marco Materazzi]] out-jumped [[Patrick Vieira]] and headed in the last goal of the 2006 World Cup. In addition, [[Fabio Grosso]] clinched the cup for Italy with the decisive spot kick in the penalty shootout.