A copy-paste of Argentina-Saudi Arabia the day before, or almost.
Germany, who opened the scoring before harvesting a number of incredible opportunities against Japan, ended up with their heads in the grass without understanding what was happening to them, "betrayed" by two home players.
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Everything changed in a few minutes.
First when the Germans saw four shots (Hoffmann and Gnabry three times) repelled in seconds by spectacular parries from Gonda in the 73rd minute.
Almost on the counter, Manuel Neuer saved the homeland, with a headline of which the 36-year-old doorman has the secret, but on the next action, Ritsu Doan, the FC Friborg player, equalized on the arrival of a collective combination that made the German defense dizzy (1-1, 75th).
Eight minutes later, another Japanese from the Bundesliga, Takuma Asano (Bochum) gave the coup de grace with a powerful shot under the bar (2-1, 83rd), for Japan's best victory in the World Cup.
The case is already seriously complicated for the Germans, four years after a pitiful elimination in the first round in Russia.
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