Japan and Spain, who reversed to reach the round of 16, were undoubtedly the biggest winners of B, and the Japanese got the credit they wanted, and the goalscoring heroes Kaoru Mikasa and Bi Tanaka also spread a good story comparable to "Football Boy" Misaki Koku.
Spain avoided the terror top half to face Croatia after qualifying from the top of the group, and potentially face favourites Brazil in the second round of the knockout round. In this way, Japan's qualifying cross is still awarded a valid goal, and Spain will certainly not feel wronged.
But Spain felt that it was not wronged, and the German team in the same group as them was afraid that they would be aggrieved, because if it were not for the effective crosses of this out-of-bounds ball, it should be them who advanced to the round of 16. Many people think that the Germans are too pitiful, and they were properly killed by Spain and Japan, but there are also people who are pitiful and must have something to hate, and the Germans themselves do not argue.
This is not because the German team did not play well in the first two games, especially the first loss to Japan, but in this third game, the Germans were not bloody enough. After an early 1-0 lead, they completely tied their fate to Espanyol and it was the biggest failure. Since then, they have been caught in a conservative style of play for a long time, not only did they get overtaken for a while, but they also completely lost hope after Spain conceded two goals in a row.
Germany, which scored almost at the same time as Spain, was seven goals behind Spain at the time, and some people said that if Germany scored six more goals at that time and defended well, it would be possible to squeeze out Spain with fair play rules and score seven to advance directly by goal difference. But the question is, does the German team, which has been in the youth for many years, really have the strength to beat Costa Rica 7-0, 8-0? At the 2006 World Cup, when German football began to rise, they could only win 4-2 against Costa Rica, and the Germans should know that after losing a game they shouldn't have, their fate can only be pinned on others.
It's just that since the Germans can't control their own fate in the group finale, why can't they think about how to control the fate of others? For example, Spain, which killed them the most. Some people want to believe that this is the second myth of the Japanese in a few days, even if there is a stain on the cross of the ball out of bounds, but many fans feel that Spain is extremely abnormal after the goal.
In the face of this unjust defeat, the Germans could have resorted to a retaliatory defeat to send their rival Costa Rica to the round of 16, while bringing down Spain, which faced Japan and was unclean in the face of itself. After all, it's hard to score 7 or 8 against Costa Rica, but it's really easy to lose a goal. What's more, it was the Spaniards who were not the first to go, and it would have been possible to win one each and qualify together, but if it had to be so complicated by the Spaniards, then it would not be shameless for the Germans to go downhill and stir the water even more.
Look at Saudi Arabia in the 1982 World Cup qualifiers, because it was defeated by the Chinese men's football team twice in a row, and lost 0-5 to New Zealand without doing anything in advance of the World Cup, sending the unprepared Chinese team to play the play-offs with New Zealand, causing the national football team to miss the opportunity to rush to the World Cup 20 years in advance.
But if the German team has a little bad intentions like Saudi Arabia, I am afraid that it will be the two seeded teams that will leave this night. From the point of view that the effort may not succeed and give up the certain failure, the German team this night is respectable; But if from the point of view of not knowing how to pull a cushion on the verge of death, not to mention that this cushion is still the culprit, the German team is the most pathetic.