Higuain is hat-trick star as Argentina triumph Real Madrid star Gonzalo Higuain became the third Argentina player to score a World Cup hat trick as the former champions overpowered South Korea 4-1 Thursday. The 22-year-old followed in the footsteps of Gabriel Batistuta, who claimed hat tricks in the 1994 and 1998 tournaments, and 1930 star Guillermo Sta-bile. "It is a very important victory for us which puts us on the verge of the next round, we played a great match," said Higuain. Higuain struck three goals less wow power leveling, than a day after Diego Forlan of Uruguay grabbed a brace following 16 earlier matches in which no soccer player managed more than one. "I have to commend my boys for the great job wow power leveling they have done, the only way South Korea would have made our lives difficult would have been if we had allowed them to," said Diego Maradona. "For example, if we gave them too much ball to control or space to run into or made a mistake like (defender Martin) Demichelis did. "We were never worried about them and they never upset us." Midfield maestro Lionel Messi, FIFA Player of the Year 2009, was superb throughout as Argentina raced into a 2-0 first-half lead thanks to aion kinah, a header from Higuain aion kinah and an own-goal by Korea's Park Chu-young. Lee Chung-yong was the Korean marksman in first-half stoppage time and they squandered a great chance to equalize midway through the second half at Soccer City before the late collapse. Argentina meant business from the kickoff and took the lead when Messi's free kick deflected off Park's legs who could only watch in horror as the ball flew over the line. Maradona then replaced the limping Walter Samuel with AS Roma's Nicolas Burdisso on 23 minutes. Argentina extended the lead when replica rolex, Maxi Rodriguez's cross was flicked on by Burdisso for Higuain to beat Jung Sung-ryong on 33 minutes, before Lee's late effort gave the South Koreans hope for the second-half. Jung pulled off two great saves replica rolex in quick succession early in the half: first from Higuain at close-quarters after a good break from Angel Di Maria, a constant threat to the Korean defense, then Tevez after a long-range shot. The only slight blemish on the Argentinians' day was Jonas Gutierrrez second booking of the tournament which will see the Newcastle United star miss the next game with Greece. Higuain settled the contest after Messi beat two defenders in the box and squared for the Real forward to fire into an empty net on 76 minutes while Messi again played a hand in the fourth goal on 80 minutes to seal the win. When he jogged off in the 82nd minute to loud applause from the Argentina fans, the 22-year-old Higuain's reply in kind could well have been for midfield maestro Messi who created his goals. Khedira, the new 'Ballack', fears Serbian backlash Sami Khedira, who has cheap aion kinah, successfully replaced the injured Michael Ballack in Germany's midfield, said he is wary of a backlash from Serbia in today's World Cup clash. Serbia went down 1-0 to Ghana in their opening World Cup match in Group D on Sunday cheap aion kinah and next face high-flying Germany, who hammered Australia 4-0 the same day, in Port Elizabeth needing a win to remain in the tournament. Former Chelsea star Ballack is out of the World Cup with an ankle injury, but his replacement Khedira has already forged a partnership alongside Bastian Schweinsteiger in midfield and will face the Serbs. The Germans produced arguably the best performance of the World Cup so far by hammering the Socceroos, but Khedira says the challenge is now to tame Serbia and maintain the momentum generated by the opening win. "This game is no foregone conclusion, the Serbs will be very fired up and dying to get something from this match," said the 21-year-old. Khedira, who holds a Tunisian passport, is maple story mesos, among the next generation of talented German soccer players like Brazil-born striker Cacau and second-generation Turk Mesut Ozil. While the multicultural Germans are now seen as the team to maple story mesos beat after their dynamic display, Khedira said the team are just focused on Serbia. The Germany camp are extra wary of the Serbians having learned the lessons of Euro 2008. Two years ago at the Austria and Switzerland-hosted tournament, Germany beat Poland in their opening game, only to lose to Croatia in their next group match before going on to reach the final. Assistant coach Hansi Flick says the same mistake will not be made again. "This team is entirely different from the Euro 2008 squad," he said. "They are a young team, who are only looking forward, never back." Flick said the Germans are concerned about the threat of imposing Serbian striker Nikola Zigic, who at 2.02 meters tall has the height to power his headers cabal alz, down into the path of his fellow Serbian attackers. Bremen's Per Mertesacker will be charged with cabal alz the task of containing Birmingham City's Zigic and the German has experience of the role having marshalled giant Jan Koller of the Czech Republic in previous internationals. "(Per) Mertesacker is tall as well and he has already played that role against Koller, he had no problems," said Flick. Serbia have plenty of Premier League talent in their squad with their defense led by Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic and Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic.