Things are looking finished. Late in the game, though, the Argentine defence lose their heads twice in seven minutes. First Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, then half time substitute Rudi Voller get their heads to corners and suddenly, with nine minutes to go, a match which Argentina appeared to have wrapped up is back level: 2-2.

Years later, in his autobiography, Maradona is presumably referring to this match when he says, with all the subtlety and politeness he's renowned for, that, 'the only way to beat the Germans is to kill them.'

But kill them -- figuratively speaking -- he does, just minutes after Voller's equaliser. In the 84th minute, the ball is nodded to Maradona, who stands in the middle of four German players. Even before two green-shirted opponents quickly close him down, before the ball has even reached him, Maradona has already seen what none of the other side have; Jorge Burruchaga bursting forward from midfield into space.

Maradona needs just one touch to thread the ball through the gap in Germany's midfield; a twenty yard through ball in the middle of the pitch sends Burruchaga clear, one-on-one with Harald Schumacher, and Argentina are back in the lead. Minutes later, the match is over and the Albiceleste, for the second time in three World Cups, are world champions.