After 80 years Germany is eliminated in the group stage of the FIFA World Cup. The defending champions put on another embarrassing performance, losing 2-0 to South Korea in the final game of the Group F, although they were -625 favorites to beat the Reds. Germany struggled for the most of the match to endanger their rival, failing to find the net in a decisive match of the 2018 World Cup that was ended in the under of the total of 2.5 goals at +160.
Game Recap
As it was expected, South Korea started the game quite defensively, while Germany controlled the ball in the middle of the park, but the defending champions were struggling to create any dangerous scoring opportunity in front of Korea’s keeper. Die Mannschaft had a couple of decent chances after South Korea’s mistakes, while the Reds were close to scoring in the 25th minute after Manuel Neuer’s error. The first half was finished in a boring nil-nil draw at +200, and it was obvious that Germany is far away from a win here.
At the start of the second half, the defending champions had a couple of excellent chances to finally break the deadlock, but Leon Goretzka and Timo Werner embarrassed themselves while Cho Hyun-Woo proved he’s one of the best keepers at the 2018 World Cup. Joachim Low set all out the attack in the last 30 minutes, his boys continued with awful performance, and in the injury time South Korea knock out the defending champions and four-time World Cup winners with a couple of quick goals. It was undoubtedly the biggest upset of the 2018 World Cup, as South Korea was a +1800 underdog to beat Germany.
In the end, Germany had the ball in possession for 74% of the time, taking 24 shots on goal, but only five of those went on target. On the other side, South Korea took 12 shots towards Manuel Neuer, as five went on target. Germany upset many bettors with failing to score a single goal here, as the odds were at +110 on both teams to score, while the price on Germany to cover the spread at -1.5 was a modest -175.
Germany is going home already after the group stage, and prior the tournament, the odds were +900 to see this happen, according to BetDSI Sportsbook. Die Mannschaft also finished at the bottom of the Group F, while South Korea ended at the third place of the table.
