Kroos explains why Germany was eliminated from the World Cup

Wednesday, June 27, a day that will be marked forever in the history of the German national team. The current world champion team was eliminated in the group stage of the World Cup in Russia, losing 2-0 to South Korea.

In their last game against Sweden, Toni Kroos scored a second-half goal, finishing the score in 2-1 and letting the team's dream of qualifying for the knockout stages.

According to the Spanish portal Sport worldKroos said he would come home "sad and angry" after the elimination. According to the midfielder, it was difficult to accept the defeat of South Korea as an end.

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"We tried to do our best, still doing our football, but we did not find the way to the goal." In the three games played (from the group stage) we had to run behind and that makes things difficult, we are sad and angry, but that does not help, "said the player in the Kazan Arena Mixed Zone.

Germany has had an unexpected start to the World Cup in Russia. He debuted with a 1-0 defeat to Mexico, and the victory over Sweden was totally dying, managing to surpbad the scoreboard with a goal of missing on the edge of the zone, in the extras.

This is certainly not Germany that everyone has a habit of seeing. And if he moved to eighth place in second place, he might not be as opponent of Brazil as he was in 2014.

Kroos defined the match as a final, from which the players did not prepare well. "The victory of the last game gave us excitement and strength for the next game, but today we were in the final and we did not consider it.The first half "It was not good, we played well but we did not have a decision which scored goal," added the Real Madrid player.

"In the second half, we improved a bit, in the end we knew that Sweden had scored, and we had to take a chance, we had chances but we could not, it was a problem for we in this tournament, "concluded the German player.

For Group F, Sweden is ranked first, and Mexico second, and will face second and first place in Group E, respectively, Switzerland and Brazil.