Good evening and welcome to LIVE text coverage of the 2014 World Cup final between Germany and Argentina at the Estadio do Maracana in Rio de Janeiro.

Messi slips a ball in-behind for the run of Aguero but Germany mop it up and Neuer completes the clearance.

Three minutes of added time.

It feels like those changes have been made with ET in mind rather than winning it inside 90 minutes...(Trying to tempt fate).

GERMANY sub: Klose leaves the pitch of a WC game for most probably the last time in his career. He departs as the WC all-time scorer and is replaced by Goetze.

A dangerous Messi run is halted. The rebound falls for Biglia who winds up to shoot but Schweinsteiger gets a vital toe on the ball.

Enzo Perez replaced by Fernando Gago.

After such a great first half this second period has been disappointing. Extra time beckons...

Argentina readying another change.

STAT: The last time Germany scored in a World Cup match and lost was the 1994 quarter final defeat to Bulgaria (1-2).

Close for Kroos as the midfielder arrives on a cut back from the right but slots his side footer wide of the right-hand post from the edge of the box.

Hoewedes stays up after a corner and Mueller feeds him, but the defender can't turn fast enough and Garay picks his pocket. How Germnay would have hoped for that to have fallen to Klose!

An incredible stat for Argentina. If you think back to the Nigeria game, it was hard to see the shut-outs coming.

Higuain goes off after an eventful evening. He's replaced by Palacio and that hairdo.

It's looking more and more like extra time... Would hate to see another WC final decided on penalties... We need someone to produce some magic...

Not that Higuain will remember it after this challenge...

PHOTO: It could have been very different if this goal had stood...

Messi jinks in from the right, always on the left peg looking for that curler. It eventually comes when he works his way central but he can't get the bend and it floats well wide in the end.

STAT: Argentina were eliminated by Germany at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups. No team has ever been eliminated by the same opponents in the knock-out stage of three successive World Cups.

It may be goalless but it's still impressing other sportsmen and women.

A nearly moment for Germany as Schurrle finds himself in the box after a flurry of short passes but he can't quite take it under control and Argentina just about snuff out the danger.

Hoewedes is sent clear down the left but gets his cross horribly wrong.