Oliver Bierhoff is aware of Germany solely have themselves accountable after they crashed out of a second successive World Cup on the group stage on Thursday.
Hansi Flick’s facet beat Costa Rica 4-2 of their remaining Group E match at Al Bayt Stadium, however that was not sufficient to see them by means of to the spherical of 16.
Japan’s shock 2-1 win over Spain ensured the Samurai Blue completed high and Luis Enrique’s facet secured second place as a result of having a superior purpose distinction to Germany.
Having didn’t advance from their group in Russia 4 years in the past, Germany have been left shocked after falling brief as soon as once more in Qatar.
A shock 2-1 loss to Japan of their opening match value Germany, who held Spain to a 1-1 draw earlier than claiming a primary victory of the match in what proved to be their remaining sport.
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Bierhoff, Germany’s nationwide workforce managing director, stated: “We’re extraordinarily dissatisfied. We’re offended too as a result of we had issues in our personal fingers in all three video games.
“Finally, soccer is a straightforward sport. It’s a must to rating a number of targets and concede as few targets as you may, which we didn’t handle to do.
“We may have put extra strain on Spain tonight if we had taken our possibilities and scored extra targets. A pattern of the previous couple of years has been us throwing away video games we’ve managed.”
Japan will face Croatia for a spot within the quarter-final subsequent Monday, with Spain taking over Morocco 24 hours later.