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Germany's record from the penalty spot in World Cups was the stuff of legend.
On the four occasions that Germany were taken down to a World Cup shootout, they won each occasion and missed just one of the 18 efforts taken during those events.
Such was their notoriety that Gary Lineker famously claimed 'football is a simple game where 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win'.
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World Cup history made by Germany exit
But that all changed on Monday evening as Julian Nagelsmann's side crashed out of the round-of-32 stage to Paraguay after a 4-3 defeat on penalties in Foxborough.
Die Mannschaft had to overturn a first-half deficit at Boston Stadium as Kai Havertz levelled before appearing to snatch an extra-time winner through Jonathan Tah .
However a VAR review saw the Bayern Munich defender's effort disallowed for a foul by Waldemar Anton on goalkeeper Orlando Gill in the build-up to the goal.
Tah later missed the decisive kick during sudden death after Havertz and Woltemade both spurned their efforts to make history for all the wrong reasons.
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The shootout loss was not only Germany's first at a World Cup but remarkably only their second in a major tournament after the 1976 European Championship final.
That previous result memorably gave rise to the Panenka technique used by Antonin Paneka for what is now Czech Republic to beat German goalkeeper Sepp Maier.
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