Examining Germany's shocking early exit at the 2018 World Cup after loss to South Korea | ESPN FC
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- Raphael Honigstein joins the ESPN FC crew to discuss Germany's shocking early exit from Group F at the 2018 World Cup in Russia thanks to a 2-0 loss to South Korea.
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A big respect from germany to korea!
Great game guys!!!
Germany has a history of taking L’s in Russia 😉
They don't like '18's either TBH
They won the Confederations Cup last year in Russia you idiot.
Richie P. r/whooooosh
Richie P. He is talking about ww2
Richie P. When Germany tried to invade Russia but failed miserably
No Steiger, no Lahm, no Klose. Golden age has long gone!
mheung910 you forget no podolski he was part of that generation too
Oh yea! He's quick and sharp. Werner is actually not that bad, dunno why people hating on him...
Wait before the tournament and after winning the Confed Cup in 2017. U guys said Germany was the best team ever and winning there again but after going out in group stages u change ur mind🤣.
Germany had a weak showing, so Spain as well as France😲
The thing is there are no defensive players and most of all leaders, all of those players you described were leaders, can you come up with a leader in this team, I don't think so. And Khedira was from that era and but was too slow to do anything.
mheung910 werner is just too cocky. Before the WC he said that Sweden and S. Korea will be lab testers to see who can score the most goals and win the group between Germany and Mexico. Great striker but doesn't respect the opponents
Korea earned the win.
Alex years of investment and buying singular Brazilians & staff has paid off, the rose to the sport and I'm very proud of them.
Rules S maybe he means in the korean league. Theres a lot of brazilians in the k league
it's was much more german stupidity than korean merit.
Agreed. I won't give credit for South Korea, more towards the stupid football played by the Germans.
Not giving Korean merit ? Ugh what kind of stupid logic is that they won Germany and even their 2 games that lost against Sweden, Mexico is by VAR penalties. German stupidity ? you mean like 99% of all football games ? what football lose isn't caused by the mistakes of the defender or goalkeeper ???
Everybody is talking of Germany and NOT enough giving credit to South Korea... C'mon !! South Korea showed discipline and focus. Characters like that should be praised and highlighted.
I guess most people want 'entertaining football' thats why even a good game execution by the South Koreans doesn't look appealing... Football has so many clowns in the name of fans smh
Mrdkdrums012 Im pretty sure everyone recognize korea amazing performance. But it's still a shock the *"defending champs"* where eliminated so early. I recognize & give props to their amazing clutch performance but it's soo shocking seeing germany loose so early!
Because it’s not Korea that shocked us, it’s Germany. No matter how well Korea played, Germany still should have won as long as they don’t play like amateurs, if Korea played well, 1-0, if not, 2 or more -0.
Mrdkdrums012 Germany needed to score 1 goal... Great job south Korea... Any other time in history south Korea would have been down 2 to 0 at the halfway point
Maybe they’re not talking about South Korea because they were still eliminated idiot lmao
Germany should have won due to just their overwhelming talent and tradition. The fact that they played lackluster is shocking. But South Korea did play with heart when they really had nothing to gain but pride. I do agree that they tend to focus more on how Germany went wrong though
Ozil was the only player against South Korea that played an incisive pass, there were three or four occasions he saw something brilliant, also that one two on the left and reverse pass into the box that almost ended in a goal, was his doing. But let's just jump on Ozil because it's easy and the whole German team didn't perform.
Agreed. He kept on assisting Mats Hummels. It is not his fault that Hummels cannot convert those into goals.
The excuse given about Ozil is that he's slowing down the game. I think people are tired of seeing Germany possessing the ball for like 10 minutes without having a go for goal. People think that Ozil can't fit in in a counter attacking system
Daniel Muriithi You have a good point. This is my main frustration on the game. Germany was so slow on the counter attacks. He seems to wait for the defense to settle in first. Guess his style is not suited.
Most people who will criticize this team must be admirers of the confederation cup squad, since they had more counter attacking instinct and defensive awareness. And with these young players not being given enough playtime as many would have expected, I feel that there was frustration with the could have situation. Also many people don't trust that the managers system will be effective for the young talent. So for them a full overhaul needs to be done on that team
James Ranno there were many times he had an option to play Reus or Werner through but instead pulled it back and slowed the game down. They needed more purpose with their passes and Ozil didn’t provide that
1938: Germany out from the World Cup at the earliest
1939: Germany started World War 2
2018: Germany out from the World Cup at the earliest
2019: O Sorry, I was just kidding
GOD'Sservant this is an underrated comment lol
ww3 confirmed
The rothchilds are war mongers.dont blame the germans
Pat Aherne it starts with funding both sides and the Rothschild devil picks up the war spoils in the aftermath. Cripple the economy and be their slave for years to come.
Search up David Irving’s history of hitler
Before TH-cam removes that type of stuff
Germany did everything the same. That's why they lost, if you are the previous champs and extremely dominant like Germany? People are going to prepare for you.
Oscar Villareal Exactly, at the Euro 2016 Italy and France gave them a scare despite having worse teams than Germany (especially Italy). Their style of play had been found out and they paid for it.
Well done South Korea. You played remarkably well
Germany simply underestimated the Koreans who played as a dedicated ambitious team...... Well done Korea, please give them the credit for this win that they do deserve.
Mark Mateljan but another fact was, that the South Korean coach told his player, to attack the German player aggressively because they didn't like that!
Korea had beaten Germany 3-1 with only 10 players before in 2004. They beat Germany who with one less players ( 10 vs 11 ) so it's no surprise that Korea wins. The Koreans simply played better, stronger, faster and show good discipline, organization against Germany even if they are the defending world cup champions.
They underestimated the Koreans.
Useless NAZIs When you won 🏆 No regard to non natives but when you lost ☠️ You blame them. No wonder you lost both the wars. Unjust cruel genociders
They underestimated the Koreans.
Useless NAZIs When you won 🏆 No regard to non natives but when you lost ☠️ You blame them. No wonder you lost both the wars. Unjust cruel genociders
why nobody gave credit to south Korea
Talk to México about that
the leftmost guy was right, i watched germany push the ball up into south korea's half and then ping it around till the defense was settled, then tried to get in when the penalty box was full. south korea at least pushed it upfield with pace and got way better chances all game, if heung min son had been on his game germany would have lost by more. SAD!
Jimmy Quach
In my opinion they killed the counter attack each time . Often missing shots or just dropping back allowing defense to set up . Then just throwing lobs in the box hoping for headers
I agree with this. They were too slow on the counter attacks and seems like not the Germany last 2014 who would have pushed the ball even further.
Follow the brick road Özil just keeps on firing those lobs 😭 Like whaaat??
nina capila
Jesus I was like why are they constantly trying to lob the ball 😂😂. And it wasn't working yet they kept doing it . Ozil gave some good balls a lot of his passes kept getting deflected.but everybody was soooo bad .
germans had to ping it around, koreans were so fast, closely chasing germans everywhere, something was totally wrong with this german team that brought 2014 world cup to gemany. I think italy and germany sometimes had hard time playing against korea. maybe it was year 1994 world cup, germany vs korea (3-2), it was the most exciting match
The curse....
Which one?
Lay the unicorn it continues...
England next?
You have had to win the world cup last time in order to qualify
Kenjin Che the curse of defending champions going out at the group stage in the following World Cup.
Well done South Korea. Cheers from Oz.
Thank you sooo much~
What's oz?
Australia :)
Ivan Yancic Jurado 😊
No worries. I enjoy watching Korea and I love it when they succeed - as long as it not at the expense of The 'Roos :-)
i guess i was wrong about france for 2022 and germany once more failed to advance from the group stage, i am shocked that is 2 times for germany
Brandt also deserves more PT
Jorge Soto shoulda woulda coulda... Any more excuses ? Or can we give Korea the praise they deserve ?
Face it - the stars weren't aligning down on that Trump lookalike
I honestly think Marco Reus does not get enough credit.
He was the one actualy tried.
The Korean goal keeper was pure class. He belongs in one of the top European leagues.
Good analysis guys
Germany lost for the 5 reasons
1.did not give opportunity to sané
2.did not give chance to ter stegan
3.no replacement for lahm found
4.no replacement for miroslav klose
5.finally other teams played really well
Appreciate their hard work
They will comeback stronger #diemannschaft
sakhib ahmed facts
Nope. Curse lives
sakhib ahmed
They have kimmich who is a pretty great player and will get better . Werner couldn't finish even if you asked them too . Sane was really trash playing for Germany so far
sakhib ahmed NOPE.
1) OZIL SUCKS.
2) OZIL IS TRASH
3) OZIL IS GARBAGE
4) OZIL IS OVERRATED
5) They pressed upfield without any creativity in final third all the while exposing themselves to constant counter attacks.
Owen Richard ... ur right .... being a player of great class ... he should’ve played well .. really disappointed ...
Lack of pace on the squad missing Leroy sane
dom lanier fact
Hmm......he'll be in the next cup.
Sane wouldn’t have made a difference. Whole team was bad all around not just in attack
dom lanier That's false.We created enough chances we just couldn't finish them.
True they suck on FIFA as well
They had a myriad of issues, but the one thing that stuck out to me was lack of leadership and finishing. Klose/Lahm/Bastian, provided all of that. Some even argue that this squad had more talent than 2014 squad. Let's be real, would Sane have made that big of deal? probably not...They need to reevaluate and somebody needs to step up and be a leader teammates can rally behind.
They had 10 minutes left to score or they were knocked out of the World Cup and no one had any energy or sense of urgency. Everyone seemed to be lightly jogging or walking.
Can't believe it . before the match , i would have thought that Germany can demolish South Korea 3-0 . They weren't playing very impressive , even though just say they defeated South Korea , they couldn't go pass Brazil or France anyway. Credits to South Korea , their defence was so well as well as the counter attack , Germany suffers from a world cup curse , no defending Champion can go pass a group stage in the last three times.
Ellis Tang thank the Brazilians they've brought in over the last 10 years, Adriano and the likes built the league up which helped more Korean players get into serie A, BBVA etc
remember how all the so called "analyst" in their bracket predictions picked Germany vs Brazil in the finals? lol they know nothing
The odds were actually France vs Argentina in the finals. Neither Germany nor Brazil would make it. Later on changed to France vs England in the finals.
The golden Germany player are old now
Nope muller is 30
Kalen Tali 31*
Before the tournament started, the home shirt was retailing here in Munich for 120 EUR.
The week following the WC-Exit, it was reduced to 39EUR in some stores :(
Humiliated and broken.😔 IT hurts so much! 😩
Yep Leroy Sane could have help big time with creating chances to score and with pace.... German Coach really made a mess of this one
Christopher Kupetz you must be a Germany fan.... sorry for your Bruce ego.....
Christopher Kupetz well he plays for a team who plays against bus Parkers every weekend and did pretty well.
I really think Goretzka and Brandt should have been given a chance to prove how good they are...and of course Sane...but Lowe put his trust in the wrong players
Germany dont even have an attacking threat. How gnabry and sane could changed everything
Consider ball possession around defense quarter line and go quickly to goal after getting past midfield line, then bring forwards back to center line for defense.
low wishing he went with that confederations team instead
As a die hard German fan, I can’t comprehend what has happened, yet I’m confused how people are gonna sit there and say Korea had better Chavez and played better with the ball when they really just did not, everytime they were attacking, Hummels and Süle stopped them with great tackles, I think the Merciful and clinical side of Germnay did not show up this year because as seen in the Sweden and Korea game, there were in both games atleast 4 Chances where in any other given say Germnay would tuck away and score easily, also I don’t think the creativity was there also to break down an 11 man defense in two and a half games, no other team can break down 11 men in defense too, the only team to win against a team with that tactic in this World Cup was Spain against my dear Iran, yet there goal was extremely lucky as diego costa horns lucky deflection of his own knee, but anyway I think for this bright generation of German players that have given us so much joy from 2008 till now, we should always have an but if respect for what this one generation of Muller, Ozil, Boateng, Hummels, neuer, Khediera, etc has been able to do, cuz I would like someone to name a team that has made the semi finals in six major tournaments in a row like this Recent German generation has, but in the end, Germany is out now, and must focus on their rebuild and be prepared to make a statement at Euro 2020 which will be the last chance for Germnay to gain some silver ware before they enter into the new generation of German Futbol officially,
Also yes I have no life that’s why I spent my time making that comment 😂
The positive news they have a lot of youth and it’s time to go young . Will be back and become champions in 2022
Lol this aged like milk big time.
This world cup is full of surprises👍
Worth wondering: Germany won Confederation Cup 2017.
Isn't it ironic that these rashes of the titleholders not making it out of the group stage the following tournament came *after* FIFA banned the Defending champions from automatically qualifying for the following WC?
Randy Dubin great point... I haven't heard anyone mention it
Angel George Automatically qualifying for the WC Finals (as FIFA wants the actual tournament to be called for some strange reason). I believe it was after the 2002 tournament when FIFA made that rule.
I suppose playing the qualifying matches and winning them easily makes it worse for the champions since they enter the tournament feeling even more complacent. They're both the holders AND they made it easily into the tournament.
When you automatically qualify though, all you have is the weight of expectation on your shoulders and a stronger drive to prove yourself again. That's my opinion anyway
The reason why Champion was made to qualify was because France was knocked out in group stage in 2002.
they only recently started doing that. as a matter of fact, if they continued doing it that way then that would explain to me why they do badly in the next world cup. now i don't know why this is the pattern.
It was coming . Blame the gaffer Joachim Loew was extremely arrogant. Don’t wanna blame the
Players but they also looked without inspiration. The match against Sweden showed the German
Spirit but even then the arrogance was visible . It seems divine intervention. Anyway German football
Can still bounce back . ich Lieben Deutschland
Low looked like he had no idea who he should start or where to put his players. It was a mess up front. Even with Low's awful coaching, the players had 28 shots and couldn't land a single goal. They're both to blame.
whats the media's agenda against Ozil....he was the one giving the chances and yet gets the blame
Germany had a National Team during Nazi Germany wow. This team is going down as the worst in the history of their country.
Yikessss the last time Germany didn't qualify they were Nazis, sucks for Germany you don't want to be the team that had to break that record this is shameful to be reminded of that legacy.
My gosh ! Two teams apart 50 ranks but why the score is such bad ...
Germany had a national team even when they were busy murdering 50 million people worldwide?...WOW!! incredible achievement!
No they fucking won’t I mean look at the quality: kimmich,kroos,neuer,ozil,boateng,hummels,and muller. These are extremely good players they just didn’t pull together well enough, plus if this goes down as the worst team for the Germans then you’re saying the 2014 champions is the worst ever which is retarded.
what a dumbass many of the players on this team were the players which won the world cup in 2014
Didnt watch the commentary (haha!) but just want to say that even though Germany lost, Im still thankful that it showed what a star MARCO REUS can be. This is the first time I have watched him on international scale (i dont really follow Bundesliga) and I think if he would have been in Ozil's position as the playmaker it may have a different result. What Germany lacks right now is leadership or someone who can rally them on crucial times. The moment South Korea was awarded of the goal you can see how they panicked and lost the spirit. Sad, but lesson learned.
The problem with REUS is that you want to save his fragile ass for knockout football.
Chiggsy Yep, true. If only he isnt injured all the time.
Exactly! In the previous World Cup there were players like Philip Lahm, bastian schwainsteiger and Miroslav Klose. Natural leaders, which is what Germany was missing this time. God, it was SO painful to see Lahm hand over the trophy, even though France deserves it .😢😟
@@NinaC They underestimated the Koreans.
Useless NAZIs When you won 🏆 No regard to non natives but when you lost ☠️ You blame them. No wonder you lost both the wars. Unjust cruel genociders
For those of us who endured months of poor performances in friendlies Germany's exit was not a shock. In fact, Germany's performances at the World Cup strongly resembled their performances since last Autumn.
I was devastated after my team failed at this World Cup, now after Germany's great failure it feels not that bad, there is some "success" at the tournament :)
I'm Sorry Korea. We failed you. You're always loved in Mexico
yea with a Mexico win south Korea with 2 to 0 would have gone through
its okay just do well for us!! (:
+sangchu sorry about that. But we will give Brazil hell ! :)
aaron Salentine If u guys beat Sweden, Germany wouldnt even need score. 0:0 then German would advance. Korean wouldnt have that many count attack. Because Sweden won, germany has to win against Korea to get 3 points thats why korea would have that many chances.
Memorex996 Are you really from South Korea?? I won't believe without confirmation
Get rid of Werner the worst striker at this World Cup. Get rid of Khedira, Mueller, Gomez, Kroos. Create a team with Draxler, Sane, Brandt, Ter stegen
philtastic1 Draxler is shit. And one cannot simply take out Kroos.
In what world is Draxler more important than Kroos
In a world where Kroos is aging, didn’t create any chances in the midfield, at fault in Swedens goal. One free kick does not erase a tournament of slow uncreative aging performances. Him, Khedira, Mueller were abysmal
philtastic1 Yes but Draxler isnt the replacement for him surely within 2 to 4 yrs theyll find a better player than draxler and a replacement for the agers
Max Meyer is also needed , He's very technical ,only 22 yrs old , not given any chance by Idiot Loew
It has been explained to me that revamping a national team take about 10 years. It happened with Spain and Germany, as an example.
4 of the last 5 winners have been out at group stage... There must be some element of running out of steam.
The good thing is Germany will wait for another 40 years again to not qualify to the Last 16 or quarter finals based on that Data
alvin081988 won't be so sure ja ja ja
And they'll also start another WW?
What are you talking about
that's not what the data says.
Thats the past
For the record, Germany lost the first match in 1938 which was a round of 16 match. WC2018 was the first occasion ever on which Germany didn't make it through the group stage. The WC1978 had two group stages. The second group stage were like quarter- and semifinals combined. It doesn't make sense to mention that World Cup at all.
Who is here in 2021
Germany could have win against Mexico but failed. Then underestimated S Korean team with player like Son who played for German teams.
Well on the bright their plane engine is probably still warm. The pilot must have been like “that was quick”
They had firepower they were just unlucky today by missing point blank goals. They will recover germany's youth factory is churning out new stars these espn analysts are idiots saying germany should worry going forward lol.
Bryan Abalona, what youth???
fastest exit after 1945
Don't mention the VAR 🤣
Germany is much over-rated team but Korea didn’t give up and finally won. I am so proud of it as Korean.
Does anyone understand what most of them are saying?
tsleel escappa yes
Ez Carbs a translation would be nice
it's pretty straight forward
Jonathon Medina you're missing the point. I don't understand the words that are coming out of their mouths
tsleel escappa its pretty straight forward
Well done South korea ..much respect !
Germany thought they could breeze there way through the group stage. Germany usually embarrasses South Korea, and thought they could do the same since they beat Sweden.
What do these old guys know what’s going on on the pitch and what the players are thinking have some respect it isn’t that easy.
shoulda brought Sané
Bush Vo - he wouldn’t have made a difference
Bush Vo, exactly Germany would of easily won the World Cup with Sane. Everything else was in place just missing 1 player..
He would have been warming the pine like Brandt. Löw's blind dedication to the older players was his downfall.
Bush Vo Time over
They better not poach Klopp off my reds. I swear to god
Ryan Hopper Pompey are thinking of getting Klopp. I personally hope Luton get him though
Klopp won't leave Liverpool until the end of 2021. Ralph Hassenhuttl will most likely be the next German Manager as he will be leaving RB Leipzip at the end of this coming season and Julian Nagelsman will most likely taking over from him.
Talia Mason nope it's still gonna be Löw! He is annalysing his mistakes! Klopp could come for the wc 2022! People who are hating on Löw know, don't really have a clue! Since Löw started as a coach together with Klinsmann 2006 at the home world cup, Germany reached the semifinal in 2006, 2010 and 2014 they went to the final and won their 4 th star! Also EC 2008, 2012 and 2016 they reached the semifinal! Löw will over think his system and new young German players will perform in the team! Why should Germany change their coach, just like Brasil, Argentina etc.. did in the past, when the good results didn't come! This is and will be a one timer for Germany hopefully, they will come back strong again!
So who r the remaining teams when this was made, I don't like soccer but it was trending
How did they advance on 1 and 4
Simple our strikers were atrocious this WC . If u can’t score you won’t win. you could see Klose’s impact for our previous squads. Really pathetic performance every game we played and this is truly embarrassing German football . but the difference between Germany and every other country is that I know they’ll come back stronger . the talent they’ll produce and the motivation they’ll have for the next few tournament is gonna be huge . Sad thing is this was probably Neuer’s last WC and I really wanted to see him shine in that big stage again . We lacked motivation since we won 4 years ago but this is something you wouldn’t expect from Germany . As a German fan now that Germany is out I wish the best to Argentina . Really want to see the greatest player of all time win a World Cup , he deserves it. However, the best team in the tournament is Belgium and I wouldn’t be surprise if they win their first trophy this Summer .
Okok , you're right. Since the 2002 world cup, Klose had always been Germany's go to man. He bailed them several times. He was a goal poacher supreme. Sadly Thomas Muller who was expected to take over from him has failed miserably. Klose never really received the praise he deserved for his goal scoring instinct for Deutschland.
LOL!!! He "deserves" it? How? Why? He DISSAPPEARS every time he plays a decent team, he may be some monster playing small Spanish teams, but we play him all the time in international games in South America and he is easy to counter, which is why HE HAS NEVER WON ANYTHING WITH ARGENTINA!
trauko1388 he’s the greatest player of all time . Argentina shows no appreciation for him . They have a joke of a manager managing their team. Also go read articles to see how much problems the Argentinian football association is having rn . It’s not just about football . Like recently they landed in a Russian city with their plane only with 10 minutes of gas left . That’s a plane boarding a billion dollar amount of talent .... there’s more than football factors for why Argentinian players don’t even want to to play for their national team . There’s a reason why there has been 4 Argentinian Football Presidents in the last 4 years
trauko1388 , not his fault bro. When the coaches keep picking wrong players and putting good ones on the bench you can't always blame him. Argentina has far too many talented forwards for them to only depend on Messi. Look at this world cup for instance. I can do a better job than the Sampaoli. Everyone knew Banega had to be the playmaker but the coach kept him away from the team. A midfield of Banega, Lo Celso and Mascherano would have excelled but the coach was blind. When you're chasing a goal do you bring on Meaza when you have Dybala on the bench? Argentina's coaches have been their worst enemies. Like Pekerman in 2006 who took off Riquelme and left Messi on the bench allowing Germany to equalise late and win on penalties. Maradona did similar in 2010 when he left Zanetti home after he had just won the Champions league with Inter and chose Gutierrez a midfielder as a right back. I feel Simeone may be the best coach for Argentina.
Sorry but no, see how many coaches MEssi has had, where do you place the line where it is no longer the coach but the players responsibility?
Messi can and is countered by decent opposition, he may be good against BAD sides, but that is hardly relevant, whenever he faces serious opposition he ddissappears, at this point he is a sign of the times, marketing ran amok overhyping players that do not really deserve it.
People keep calling him the GOAT... I have seen enough football to know better than just follow the sheep, he is very good, but he has not succeeded in being relevant internationally and for me that is enough to even consider him in the run for GOAT, raping small Spanish or even European teams is simply not nearly enough.
Can Neuer still play next World Cup?
Northwest Wind Probably not, I'm afraid
Tom Higgins why not?
He will be 36 years old. Ter Stegen will probably start
They will come back in 2022 and be great. They have some of the best young players in the world. No lack of depth. Still the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen in a World Cup.
You are probly right. Either spain brazil or germany will probly win it
Lol this aged like milk big time.
I think the reason why the defending champions have failed to advance out of the group stage 4 of the last 5 times is because they choose to keep the old faces who won at the last tournament. But they age after 4 years. And it's a disappointment as a German fan because people kept saying that Germany could easily send three different teams to Russia and still win. Last years confederations cup, it was a much younger team. They should have been at this World Cup. Hey, even the German team that won last years U-21 European championship would have played much better than the team that was in Russia.
The world cups becoming how the champions league used to be when it was impossible to retain it
Keita and Fabinho Apologist WC is a whole different ball game
Munif Raihan But his point has some relevance.
Munif Raihan
Champions league is a much higher level than the world cup......teams have system and pattern of play compared to international teams who rely too much on big names
lol
Maxamad Cabdi Xasan No. In the champions league only 3 teams have a realistic chance of winning it ( Madrid, Barca Bayern). The World Cup is far more competitive, you can’t just walk over teams. Even when teams are getting battered like panama against England they still fight to the death. In the champions league you’d never see a team of South Korea’s level beat a team of Germany’s level, just wouldn’t happen. World Cup is far more difficult which is why players like ronaldo and Messi who win champions leagues with ease struggle in this competition
I think Germany's B team was better
Jose Lucio don't talk about Poland like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes!
Huge opportunity for Belgium and maybe even my England squad, time to step it up a notch
Im feeling bad about this fellas, im Mexican and im always cheering for the German and Italian team. Im sorry guys
Belgium gonna go all the way
The Reason Germany dont produce Technical players like Brazil is their Youths dont play Futsal
Heres the issue with the world cup only being 4 years. The same team you got from 2014 theres no guarantee that will be the same team that arrives 4 years after, so you get a toss up in results.
Nothing to be shocked. Most teams hardly plan together. They play at their clubs. But among own country team, they barely play.
As we are saying right now in Brazil:
Ô THOMAS MULLER
Ô TONI KROOS
Ô NEUER TCHAU
NEUER TCHAU
NEUER TCHAU TCHAU TCHAU!
E A ALEMANHA!
ESTÁ CHORANDO
PQ ESSA COPA EU VOU GANHAR!
Nicholas Fuoco
Germany won a fairplay prize after the 7:1 victory!
But you don´t know what fairplay is.
Good luck brazil. Greetings from germany
Oh I know what fairplay is.
But we heard 7x1 jokes during 4 years and we'll hear them forever, do you know why? BEACUSE IT'S HUMILLIATING! And people HAVE TO make jokes about it, cause that's what football is! Winning, losing, crying, being disappointed, thousands of different feelings in a small lack of time, INCLUDING having sense of humor is part of it! When something like that happens to Germany or Brazil, it will be in history forever, people WILL and they HAVE TO talk about it.
Don't get it wrong: fairplay doesn't have ANYTHING to do with those kind of jokes.
Nicholas Fuoco well and your team got knocked out by Belgium in the quarterfinals, that is also a big upset for Brasil! Oh yeah and since the beginning of the wc Brasilian fans were saying that only Brasil will win this WC and for the 6 th time, we'll that clearly didn't happen! It's South Americas time to take the wc, my ass, since the semifinal were only European nation playing football!
Why wasn’t there a Solid Starting XI smh
Jorge Soto Löw clearly underestimated Southkorea
If only the full squad was there
I'm sorry when Toni kroos got on the ball I didn't see him as a dangerous threat. Shit he gave away the goal vs Sweden
Ruben Sanchez yeah but since Kroos and Muller are pure German, these german fan scapegoating Ozil instead, i know that Ozil is also underperforming but he's not yhe worst performer out there
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Ozil was basically the only one creating chances . Hummels missed like 3 great open headers : kroos was taking a chance from long range and just failing . But let's agree Germany's counter attack was horrendous
It was, they looked slow. I personally thought they would do good, but I won't lie coming into the world cup. U could see that something just wasn't right with them, I just heard of the report to come our in the next days similar to what u explained "bling bling gang" which involves ozil and a few other players used as scapegoats
Ruben Sanchez
Singling out Ozil to me is just dumb . I actually feel bad for Ozil . The whole team played like garbage but let's be honest . They aren't hungry anymore . Like in 2014 they were because the players didn't win a cup yet . Now The old guard are old and don't play with hunger . That's why In euros I wouldn't select the old players except kroos. And go young with Werner , kimmich, draxler, sane, Brandt etc .
Yeah it definetly didn't look good when hummels criticised the team that vs Mexico he an boateng tracked back to defend. Locker room rift possibly. I didn't look to into it, but a story I read before the world cup something about Ozil meeting up with the Turkish president or something like that or maybe it was the Turkish coach
Ffs Sane is just a kid. Yeah he's good, but an inexperienced player won't win you the world cup all by himself. So stop talking about him
Kevin Pereira don't take sane but take Timo werner........
* Adolf-Hitler * Timo is fine, he's a good player and has scored 8 goals in 17 matches, while Sane has scored 0 in 12.
I'm not saying Timo is a better option, but is totally fine to pick him over Sane
Kevin Pereira not even the best player in the world can win you a world cup. I'm looking at you Argentina
GODzbleach Or Portugal.
No style from this German team. No matter how talented the players were...Germany usually are tactically set up and organised, whilst they play to a system. This lacked all the above. The severe lack of pace was evident. How the hell can you leave out Leroy Sane? Don't give me the " he hasn't played well for Germany lately" The manager did not get the best out of Sane...the team with Brandt (Starting) and Sane...would have been ideal with there movement and pace. Kroos would have played is natural game. However all we saw....is tactically inept Germany!
*WAAAIT ! Germany was on the World Cup?*
One thing u always depended on germay was the furer
I think Italy will win the World Cup.
Of Rugby? Well, they DID qualify, but they have it all to do next year. in Japan.
Jo-Ryan Salazar Im proud of my country but Italy is a fucking crappy team and the players a disgrace to the nation. They earn too much and have no commitment whatsover.
It started with them not taking Sandro Wagner to WC. 😅
Oh well will see how many of these players will be in the euros next yr.
Where the hell was the goal keeper during 2nd goal ?
Fools, they rested players thinking S. Korea would be a walk in the park... The rest is history And by the way, you guys are all over the place.. You still think Argentina hasn't a clue.?
Susan Devaney they tried to lock down the CDM style of play but Korea did what any Korean would do, play whatever way you have to for the win, give everything on the pitch then leave it there. Humble in Victory, modest in defeat, how can anyone not love s Korea ?
Korea deserved the win
Keeping Sane off the squad. Brilliant!
They left their only 1v1 player at home.
If Coutinho keep this good work he will lead Brazil at least to semi finals , *Croatia vs France* in the final of The World Cup🏆🔥🔥
Portugal vs. Brazil with Portugal beating the colony
Are you living in 1700s ? What a stupid comment ?!!!
Kung-Fu Kenny Family Absolutely not. Argentina has been tested and they have Awokened. Mark mywords Argentina will lift this. Its a perfect story.
sottiki but its true Brazil is the colony
Brazil got it's independence 200 years back, and it's a country of Native Americans, Africans, other Europeans other than the Portuguese colonizers. Don't go back to the ancient times, it will hurt a lot of feelings. Portuguese were not at all good people at that time.
Leroy Leroy Leroy Leroy Leroy!!!
Christopher Kupetz hater hater hater hater hater!!!
Insane Sharks is shit for the German national team, get your man city and premier League fan boyism out of the way for a second and you'll realise he has been dog awful for Germany and doesn't fit the style
Christopher Kupetz you seem to hate the guy, he is pacey and direct, he would've done something, they should have at least used him as a sub
swag lad how did Julian Brandt do? How did draxler do? How did ozil do? Exactly lol 😂 foh lol 😆 Leroy Leroy Leroy Leroy Leroy!!!
Insane Sharks how has Leroy done for the German national team in the past? Can you answer that? Brandt and the others mentioned have performed much better for the country and fit the style, get your stupid fan boyism out of here and accept Leroy doesn't play good for the National team
i heard Germany were not looking good during the qualifiers and even the friendlies leading to the world cup
They won all 10 qualifier games + the Confederatioms Cup. Were unbeaten between July 2016 and March 2018.
And as it turns out the only controversial decision Löw made before the World Cup, not bringing Sane, turns out to be some sort of messiah that would have literally save the whole team. And let me remind you that most people thought that he wasn't even needed, and Germany will cruise through the championship anyways.
Not only that but he hasn't score a single goal with the German Jersey. People are saying that he should have been for Timo Werner because they weren't getting any goals, but, the thing is as I said before Sane is not prolific at goal and that's normal because he's a creative player or a winger. Unlike Timo who is a striker and has 8 goals with his national team. If Sane was replacing someone, that had to be Kroos, Müller(in the position that he was played in this wc), Özil, Reus, Draxler, etc. And that simply wasn't happening for a 22 year old. He wasn't a Messiah that would save the team and they were foolish not to call him and deserve every punishment for it, he just didn't prove his worth in time for the world cup in the eyes of a guy that was conducting a (probably former) long project that would prevail after the world cup and he would have plenty of chances to prove he's good enough (I'm talking about Joachim Löw, whom up to this point had enjoyed a very successful spell as manager of the german national team)
By the way, I'm sure everyone that supported this team specially German people are sad for their performance and elimination. That includes Sane.
How ozil was still playing is beyond me!??!!! He was trash should have played Reus he can play make and has pace! Ozil should not be called back after these performances. Sane was needed badly but if his attitude was shit like they said. Do you take him?😐
Moss Def everyone is trash, especially Kroos who continously make an error.
Oh and in WC 2014 final, Kroos also did the same error, lucky for him Higuian is such a bottler
How are you only singling out Ozil . He didn't play fantastic but he was the only one actually creating opportunities . Everyone played trash Hummels missed three open headers . Don't single out just one player . And Reus was a ghost this entire game also
Moss Def- Rues played an He was trash
eBron James Reus definitely wasn’t trash this tournament. Ffs Ozil and Khedira didn’t pass to him enough.
BK718 - Rues was trash both games. He doesn’t beat his market 1v1 and put crosses into the box. Ozil created 7 chances yesterday and 2 goal scoring opportunities and Werner and hummels blew it
Its ok germany won in fifa game
There is two polarization of captaincy one is semi back Philip lam and balack and other pole Kahn and Neuer but second one fails in 2018 because it never clicks for young team love Germany from Bangladesh
Lack of communication is the reason they failed
Muller , Reus , Gomez , Boateng are not good players . They dont have quality . No technique. Leroy Sane and Max Meyer are more technical players than them combined.
Partha Ronghang Reus is probably the most technical on that team...?
In the Wc team but not in whole germany