Although the German national team defeated Costa Rica yesterday (4:2) in the final round of the 2022 World Cup group stage, they took the final third place in Group E, losing the fight to Japan and Spain, and thus failed to solve the problem of reaching the 1/8 finals of the World Cup in Qatar.
At the same time, the German national team has not reached the playoffs of the tournament for the second consecutive World Cup. At the 2018 World Cup, the Germans also failed to leave the group in which Sweden, Mexico and South Korea were its rivals.
This has never happened before with the German national team: for the first time in the history of the World Championships, the Bundesteam did not reach the playoffs twice in a row.