is a big blow for germany this is the 2nd time that crashed out in the quarterfinals in a major tournament in 2 years after the disappointment of the euro 2017 and this also means that germany won't be competing in the olympics next year in tokyo only the top 3 teams your paintings in the world cup go through and so that's a huge blow in terms of the team's development this is a young team a few of the players will be retiring and you know they need these competitive games to move forward as a football nation i think largely the the qualification for the olympics needs to be taken a look at i think there should be proper qualification so that the top teams do go and compete in it but that said germany didn't deserve to win this match they knew what was at stake and still have to move forward from here all right so what this means is that sweden will now play the netherlands how did they get through yes so this was a very tough match the netherlands up against italy and it was played in stuff in hit 33 degrees they were playing in so not easy conditions whatsoever and as a result the players did look a bit exhausted and it was a bit of