One of the worst aspects of Soccer, IMO, is that the score doesn't tell much about the game. Sure, that's true in other sports with which we're familiar to an extent, but in soccer it's a TRUISM.
Read the account of the game. The U.S. had Germany fighting for its life. In the minds of the German fans and players, there should have been no contest, but if you changed the outcome of the events of just a few split seconds, we could have been talking U.S. 2 Germany 1.
The score just doesn't tell the whole story--and that, to me, is a WEAKNESS in the game.