Germany & Belgium head home, Japan top Group E & Suarez v Ghana

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Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Adam Leventhal is joined by Oli Kay and Michael Cox following another dramatic night in Qatar with two European heavyweights in Germany and Belgium exiting the World Cup. There's reaction from Japan's dramatic win over Spain which eliminated Germany and also sent Japan through as Group E winners. Raphael Honigstein gives immediate reaction to Germany heading home, while Jack Pitt-Brooke revels in Japan's joy. With Belgium also out coach Roberto Martinez confirmed the end of his time in charge with the panel assessing where and what next for the Spaniard before Carl Anka looks ahead to Uruguay v Ghana on Day 13 with a look back to their quarter-final meeting in 2010. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:03.0	The Athletic.
0:04.0	And that is it.
0:10.0	It has finished here at the Khaliva Stadium and oh my goodness it has been a frantic evening
0:15.2	here in the press box. We've just spent the last 45 minutes doing and throwing trying to
0:19.4	work out what the permutations are. What is it that Germany need?
0:22.1	Hang on both Spain and
0:23.3	Germany they're going out. No, it's just Germany that going out and as it ends it
0:27.4	is Japan to Spain one. It means that Japan have topped the group and
0:31.7	Spain as I record are going through in second place.
0:35.4	In fact they are going through in second place because there is now nothing that can
0:38.8	happen in the other game to stop that event from happening.
0:42.6	Spain were in control of the first half.
0:44.6	They were one nil up.
0:45.4	They were playing football,
0:46.3	like they were in your grandparents armchair.
0:48.4	Comfortable, no intention of going anywhere.
0:50.9	And then in the second half Japan make two changes bringing on
0:53.8	Dohan and Asano with a former leading the charge scoring within five minutes
0:57.6	of the second half starting again. We then two minutes later have Japan they've got
1:01.6	the ball in the back of the net courtesy of
1:03.4	Tanaka but it looks at all the world as we look at the replay is like the ball
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