FOXBOROUGH
\nJonathan Tah skied Germany\u2019s sixth spot kick well over the crossbar after seeing his apparent extra-time winner controversially disallowed, and Paraguay knocked the Germans out of the World Cup with a 4-3 win on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the round of 32 on Monday.
\nTah missed after Orlando Gill saved Kai Havertz and Nick Woltemade to put Paraguay in control, only for the Albirroja to flub their first two chances to seal the tiebreaker.
\nManuel Neuer saved the second of those against Fabian Balbuena to force an improbable sixth round of kicks.
\nBut Tah\u2019s effort never came close to finding the net, and after Jose Canale converted, Paraguay were through to the last 16 in their first World Cup since 2010, at the expense of a German side that hasn\u2019t reached that stage since winning the 2014 tournament.
\nGill also made six saves over 120 minutes for Paraguay, who are looking to repeat their quarter-final appearance from 2010.
\nGermany thought they\u2019d won it in extra time on Tah\u2019s 102nd-minute header of Nathaniel Brown\u2019s corner kick.
\nBut referee Jalal Jayed was summoned to the replay monitor by lead VAR Tatiana Guzman. After rewatching the play, he wiped off the goal, ruling Waldemar Anton had fouled Gill to free up space for Tah\u2019s header at the back post.
\nJulio Enciso put Paraguay in front in the 42nd minute on one of the South Americans\u2019 only forays forward before half-time with a neat header of Matias Galarza\u2019s cross from near the penalty spot.
\nHavertz levelled for Germany nine minutes after the break on an even better headed finish, flicking on Florian Wirtz\u2019s inswinging service into the bottom right corner. Tah\u2019s disallowed goal was one of a flood of later chances where the Germans just couldn\u2019t find the breakthrough. In the 78th minute, Havertz again connected from even closer range, but this time Gill lunged left in time to deny the effort.
\nIn the 86th, Leon Goretzka met Wirtz\u2019s corner but saw his defender kept out of the goal by his own team-mate Anton, who was standing near the line in an offside position.
\nAnd then in the second extra time, Anton reached another German corner himself in the 118th minute, his header directed straight into Gill\u2019s waiting arms on the goal line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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