Unbearable: Germany’s Niklas Suele (left) reacting next to South Korea’s players after the Group F match at the Kazan Arena on Wednesday. Inset: Germany coach Joachim Loew passing through a security checkpoint at the Vnukuvo Airport in Moscow yesterday. — AFP / Reuters
Vatutinki: World Cup holders Germany return home desperately looking for answers following their historic exit, with head coach Joachim Loew set to suffer the consequences of a disastrous campaign.
In one of the competition’s biggest ever shocks, Germany failed to reach the knockout stage of a World Cup for the first time for 80 years, but it was the meek manner of their capitulation against South Korea in their final game that really stung.
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