False hope and schadenfreude: Familiar feelings for Germany after another World Cup flop‎

Germany should be getting used to disappointment, but it doesn’t make it any less painful for a traditional soccer heavyweight that had been tentatively hoping for a fifth World Cup title to restore lost pride. Germany did manage to survive the group stage for the first time since winning the trophy in 2014, but it’s little consolation after Monday’s loss to unheralded Paraguay on penalties sent the team home after the first knockout game. “We messed it up,” Joshua Kimmich told reporters after the match in Foxborough, Massachusetts.