Entitled Germany out as the World Cup continues to shock
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🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For the third World Cup in a row, the holders are knocked out at the group stage. Defeat for Germany against South Korea spelled the end of their reign as world champions and raised major questions over the attitude and atmosphere behind the scenes.
Alyson Rudd reports from Kazan on the demise of the Germans and tells us why this tournament could be called the ‘under the radar cup.’
Studio guest Matthew Syed is mystified and left bereft by Germany’s elimination and tries to make sense of their regression.
Matt Dickinson previews England’s group decider with Belgium in Kaliningrad with questions still remaining over either side’s motivation to top Group G.
And Oliver Kay has a front row seat to The Neymar Show, also known as Brazil’s victory over Serbia in Moscow.
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| 0:35.4 | Natalie Sawyer and thank you for joining us. We are here every match day of the |
| 0:38.9 | World Cup podcasting after 10 o'clock UK time every night in the studio with me the Times |
| 0:44.0 | columnist and leading thinker on the science of high performance it's Matthew Sired |
| 0:49.0 | Matthew hello hi he sounded slightly ironic when you described me as a |
| 0:52.3 | think of a high performance that the script was missed He sounded slightly ironic when he described me as a thinker and I before. |
| 0:53.2 | Was that the script was miswritten? |
| 0:56.0 | Not at all, not at all. |
| 0:57.8 | We're also going to be joined by Matt Dickinson in Kaliningrad |
| 1:02.4 | and we're looking ahead to the much anticipated clash between England and Belgium on Thursday night. |
| 1:07.8 | But first, Allison Rudd is in Kazan having witnessed history. |
| 1:12.2 | The Holders, Germany are out of the World Cup. They have |
| 1:15.9 | never been eliminated in the group stage of the World Cup before, but a 2-0 defeat to South |
| 1:21.0 | Korea combined with Sweden's 3-0 victory over Mexico |
| 1:24.4 | sees the Mexicans and the Swedes progress from Group F. |
| 1:29.2 | Allison, how on earth can you explain this collapse from the world champions? |
| 1:33.1 | Not just out, but bottom of the group as well? |
| 1:36.2 | Yes, it's staggering, isn't it? |
| 1:39.6 | Well, in a way, it is explainable I think the German media who |
| 1:46.2 | alongside me felt it was the fault of arrogance |
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