{"id":397635,"date":"2022-12-01T21:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=397635"},"modified":"2022-12-01T21:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:32:25","slug":"germany-crash-out-of-world-cup-despite-4-2-defeat-of-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/germany-crash-out-of-world-cup-despite-4-2-defeat-of-costa-rica","title":{"rendered":"Germany crash out of World Cup despite 4-2 defeat of Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dejected Serge Gnabry after Germany were dumped out of a second successive World Cup at the group stage \/AFP Germany crashed out of the World Cup at the group stage for the second time in succession despite a 4-2 win against Costa Rica on Thursday. The four-time World Cup winners came into the match needing a win but were also relying on the result of Japan&#8217;s game with Spain to progress. But the Germans were eliminated due to goal difference as Japan followed up their defeat of Germany with another shock result by beating Spain 2-1. Germany took an early lead but briefly fell behind in the second half as coach Hansi Flick made a flurry of changes, reacting to the live score of the Japan v Spain fixture. The Germans started positively, with Flick&#8217;s all-Bayern Munich front line turning the screws early, battering the Costa Rica defence before Serge Gnabry got his head to a curling cross from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany crashed out of the World Cup at the group stage for the second time in succession despite a 4-2 win against Costa Rica on Thursday. It means Germany, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}