Germany pay the price for casual World Cup prep with humiliating exit
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Paul Mariner and Alexis Nunes discuss how Germany's poor finishing was the reason for their poor World Cup campaign.
Defending champions Germany have been eliminated from the 2018 World Cup after losing to South Korea in Kazan.
Every World Cup has its defining image. In 2014, it was Mario Gotze buzzing through the Maracana night like a drunk bumble bee. Four years later, the picture that will come to sum up Germany's campaign in Russia -- if you can even call it that -- doesn't depict a football scene. Quite the opposite, in fact: it shows Joachim Low in sunglasses, interrupting his morning jog in the Black Sea resort of Sochi to lean on a street lantern, posing for an agency photographer.
The photo, taken before Germany's...