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Marco Reus — somehow making his first ever World Cup start — levelled the scores after 48 minutes. The Germans, needing a win to stand a good chance of qualifying thanks to their opening game defeat to Mexico, kept pressing. But after 82 minutes disaster struck — Jerome Boateng was sent off for a second yellow card. Germany were on the brink.

He tapped a quick free kick from wide left to Marco Reus, who teed it back to him, and Kroos masterfully bent the ball past Robin Olsen to send the German bench wild.

Football is a simple game, 22 men chase the ball for 82 minutes and the Germans get a player sent off so 21 men chase the ball for 13 minutes and at the end the Germans somehow fucking win.

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But even watching football on television It will be a bit more like training in many ways, but more important than training. Chaos beckons as European soccer season is devastated by coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of the resumption to the season, which comes after a two-month break in Germany, perennial powerhouse Bayern Munich holds a four-point lead with nine games to go, with the Bavarians hoping to win the title for an eighth straight time. But the likes of Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Borussia Monchengladbach are within six points of the champions, with Dortmund able to reduce the gap to a solitary point with victory on Saturday at home to Schalke.

Lineker is hoping that viewers find the new normal in Germany "acceptable" because "in fairness it would be good to finish out the season. As Lineker well knows, Germany was often ahead of England when it came to success on the field, and the Bundesliga has beaten the English Premier League to a swifter return to action during the coronavirus pandemic. Log In. Contact us Sign up for newsletters. Log In Register now My account. World Cup. By Sam Johnston.