“Yesterday with the German team, with the games [they played] before, they don’t have the rights to go to the second round… First, they missed the performance, and when you don’t have the performance you cannot accept results. I think everybody makes mistakes, [it] starts from the coach to the players. Many players did not perform good personally. And I think we missed our team spirit,” Matthaus told journalists.
The defending champions crashed out of the World Cup after losing 2-0 to South Korea on Wednesday. Germany has failed to advance from the group stage for the first time in history.
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The FIFA World Cup kicked off on June 14 and will continue until July 15, with the matches being played in 11 cities across Russia.