Over and out: How Germany reacted to World Cup exit
The reigning champion's shock defeat has led the front pages of papers in the UK and in Germany after South Korea won 2-0.
Thursday 28 June 2018 12:05, UK
The German football team will fly home to a sea of front pages chronicling the disastrous end to their World Cup campaign.
Germany lost 2-0 to South Korea on Wednesday night, sending Mexico and Sweden through to the next round of the competition.
Dubbed the curse of the champions, it is the third World Cup in a row that has seen the previous winner out in the group stage, but it is the first time the German team has achieved that feat in 80 years.
While the international media relished in "Schadenfraude", German newspapers were subdued in defeat on Thursday morning. Here is how they reported their exit:
The front page of Die Welt featured a picture of dejected midfielder Toni Kroos alongside the headline "Aus und vorbei" - which translates as "over and out".
Bild used one of its same headlines from the World Cup 2014, when Germany beat Brazil 7-1 in the semi-finals on 8 July.
The headline reads "without words", though this time, it is for a very different reason.
A simple "Out" marks the front of Rheinische Post.
Inside, its assessment gives eight reasons the team failed, including blaming the coach for reaching for the escape plan too late on in the match.
On the front of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "Historische Pleite", roughly meaning "historically bankrupt", alongside a picture of Timo Werner clutching his head in frustration.
There was a more straight and to the point headline on the Frankfurter Allgemeine, which writes "Germany eliminated in the group stage".
On the top of the homepage for Die Zeit, the headline translates as "the end of self-glorification".
It adds: "Helpless, bloodless, mediocre. German football is less good than many think. Maybe it needed this World Cup finish to see that. And to win again."
Finally the front of die tagezeitung, also known as the Taz, says that "German people walk like that".
It is in reference to a World Cup song, which explains how the Germans walk compared with their less successful French, Spanish and English rivals.