Korea eliminate Germany from World Cup with stoppage time goals

Russia: Germany have been eliminated in the World Cup football tournament in an incredible turn of events in Russia as Korea Republic struck twice in stoppage time to record a stunning victory.

Sweden topped the group ahead of Mexico.

A shocked Joachim Low, speaking on the blow, said, "I’m shocked. Shocked because we didn’t manage to pull it off and beat Korea Republic and we lost this game. It wasn’t my impression when I spoke to the team before that they were under pressure before the match because the Sweden game was on at the same time and we really had the feeling that our team wanted to move ahead and qualify for the knockout stages.”

"How do we go from here? We’ll have to talk about it calmly and I think it’s premature for me to say something. It will take me some hours to come to terms with it and I’m incredibly disappointed by this elimination.

"Do I think this will bring about a dark time in German football? No, I don’t think so. I think we have young players who are very talented, and some have the potential to go forward. This has happened to other nations before, we just have to draw the right conclusions and make it better going forward."

"At the moment it is hard to say (why we have been eliminated). The disappointment of us being eliminated is just huge. We didn’t deserve to be winning the World Cup once again, we didn’t deserve to move into the Round of 16.

"Our team in this match was missing the ease of play and the classiness that we normally display. Also the dynamism that led to the goal scoring opportunities was not there, so we deserve to be eliminated."