Dec 01 2022
News Comment #12
Germany suffer humiliation of second straight World Cup group stage exit
Despite a win over Costa Rica today, Germany got knocked out in the group stage for the second World Cup in a row.
In a entertaining game for the neutral spectator, Germany went up 1-0 in the first half to later be stunned by two Costa Rica goals in the second half. Substitutes Kai Havertz(2) and Niclas Fullkrug afterwards scored again to seal the victory. However, Japan’s 2-1 win over Spain meant that Germany was out despite their own game.
The audience is the whole soccer world since the match day included controversy moments, shocking results and a shocking exit of a good team. Many requirements for something to be worth calling news.
The lead is effective as it also states, and reminds the football world, that this was not just one shocking exit, but that it was for the second World Cup in a row. There is some kind of perspective of the author since the article uses words such as ‘humiliating’ and ‘remarkable’.
Whereas this is a short article, and therefore missing some information which many soccer supporters would already know anyways, I saw that ESPN also already had multiple articles on this match day and therefore would not repeat themselves in the different articles.
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One response so far
“Crashed out.” That’s a rough way to put it. Quite an “insider-y” post.