After drinking all night with my elder collegues gathering around our former chief of my division who is transferring out from our organization, I was so drunk and tired, I just went straight to bed and slept for hours and hours...

I woke up after presumably, all the alcohol had burned off. Without checking out anything that may post the result of the quarterfinals, I really was happy I could watch this match without knowing the result!
It was a fight to death as the host Germans with an injured captain fought more than 120 minutes and a shootout to make it to the semis.

scenes of the starting GK of 2002, Oliver Kahn encouraging Jens Lehman who is defending the goal now, before the shootout was impressive...

As the leg-dragging Ballack nailed in the second kick and Lehman stopping Argentina's second by Ayala, the goal scorer in the first half just did it.
Lehman stopped the fourth kick, but as the Germans had successfully kicked in four in a row, the fighting spirit of the South American leading team had already worn off.

夜通し先輩方とうちの元部長を囲んで飲んだ後、すごく酔っぱらって疲れていたんで、ベッドに直行して何時間も何時間も寝た…。
何とかすべてのアルコールがとんだと思われるときに起きた。準々決勝の結果を知らせる可能性があるものは見なかったんで、試合の結果を知らずに試合を見れてとにかく嬉しかった！
怪我をしたキャプテンを擁するホスト国のドイツは１２０分以上の時間とＰＫ戦の死闘を戦って準決勝に進んだ。
写真：ＰＫ戦の前に２００２年の先発ＧＫのオリバー・カーンが今ゴールを守っているイェンス・レーマンを励ますシーンが印象的だった…
足を引きずるバラックが２つ目のキックを決めてレーマンが、前半にゴールを決めたアルゼンチンのアジャラのキックを止めた時、形勢は決まった。
レーマンは４つ目のキックも止めたが、ドイツが４回連続キックを成功させたとき、南米の雄はすでに戦意を失っていた。

Quarterfinal
GER 1 - 1 ARG
(PSO 4 - 2)