Jurgen Klinsmann
Former Germany head coach

No, it is natural, when you say end of a golden generation, I don't see it as a negative, say, because every national team goes through those phases of transition, and you as a manager you cannot choose these moments because the generation is what it is, it's what is provided to you by your federation, the players that you have available, wherever they play around the world, on what level they play, how they were educated throughout the youth system, and their professional team.

So as national team manager, you live with transitions when an older group of players phases out and a younger group of players comes in. Then you only hope that the younger group has high quality, that will sooner or later take the place of the experienced older players. Sometimes it's a very smooth transition. And sometimes it's rocky, because every player is different. Every individual is different - they are players in their mid-30s, they still have fantastic capabilities to perform day in, day out, and then some days they kind of go towards the end of their career. It's a natural component. And it's not when they talk about the end of the golden generation I wouldn't take it as negative. I'm sure that there are plenty of talented Belgium players hungry for their chance if some of the older ones will fade out.

Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport at Al Thumama Stadium

Morocco edged past Canada to top Group F and reach the World Cup knockout stage for the first time in 36 years.

The Atlas Lions, whose previous trip to the last 16 came in 1986, finished above 2018 finalists Croatia, while Belgium - ranked second in the world - are out after finishing third in the group.

Morocco went ahead after just four minutes courtesy of a goalkeeping howler from Milan Borjan.

The north African side doubled their advantage through Youssef En-Nesyri's well-taken goal as he controlled Achraf Hakimi's superb pass before firing in.

But sloppy defending gave Canada a route back into the game when West Ham's Nayef Aguerd stuck a boot out to divert the ball into his own net - the 100th goal scored at this World Cup.

Read the full report.

Emma Sanders
BBC Sport at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium

Belgium have been knocked out of the World Cup at the group stage as Croatia progressed at their expense with a goalless draw in Qatar.

Roberto Martinez's side, who finished third in Russia four years ago and are ranked second in the world, have had a disappointing tournament with just one win and one goal in their three matches.

They produced another lacklustre display against Croatia despite knowing victory was necessary to progress to the last 16.

Substitute Romelu Lukaku had numerous chances in the second half but his failure to convert any sealed his country's fate.

Read the full report.

Belgium

Where next for Roberto Martinez?

"That was my last game. It was emotional as you can imagine," Martinez said after Belgium's World Cup exit.

The 49-year-old Spaniard had been in charge of the Red Devils since 2016 and guided them to the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2018.

Martinez added: "Since 2018 I had many opportunities to leave to take jobs at club level. I always wanted to be loyal and finish the job. I don't resign - it is the end of my contract. That was always the plan."

Read more: Martinez leaves role after group stage exit

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer in Doha

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Morocco top Group F. Croatia second. Belgium out. Miserable World Cup for the so-called "Golden Generation" and manager Roberto Martinez.

Here's how the Group F table finished.

Morocco topped the group thanks to their 2-1 win over Canada, meaning Croatia slipped to second after their 0-0 draw with Belgium.

Belgium, who are ranked second in the world, are out, as are Canada.

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That is us done with Group E for the time being. We may revisit it throughout the remainder of the game.

A reminder that we're expecting an England news conference from 13:30 GMT.

But before then, let's look at Group F...

Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion, external described their final group game against Germany, which they lost 4-2, as “crazy, very crazy”.

It was a game “in which anything could have happened”. However, the outcome of the game was also affected by the match between Japan and Spain, who were “playing several kilometres away”.

CR Hoy, external quoted team manager Luis Fernando Suarez, who “was satisfied by what was done against Germany despite the elimination”.

“We did well, we managed things against a great team that is very good at attacking,” said Suarez.

“The young [players] give me peace of mind for the future”, he added.

CR Hoy also mentioned that this would be captain Bryan Ruiz’ final match of professional football. “The moment arrived to say goodbye to professional football” for Bryan Ruiz, who had said months prior that the Qatar World Cup “would be his last dance”.

“Capi” Bryan Ruiz, 37, “hangs up his boots” and “today becomes one of the legends of Costa Rican football”.

For a brief moment last night, Costa Rica were the giant killers in Group E and looking at a place in the last 16 when Juan Pablo Vargas bundled the ball over the line to put the Costa Ricans 2-1 up against Germany and potentially send 2010 World Cup winners Spain home.

The dream didn't come true for Luis Fernando Suarez's team in the end but the coach thinks there is certainly potential to go further in the future.

"I am leaving with a feeling of sadness," said Suarez. "The feeling is tough to experience, especially as a coach, and even tougher to experience in a World Cup.

"But this is us, this is Costa Rica. We were ourselves against Japan, and again today, and the most important thing is that we have room for development, so many young players with a great future ahead of them.

"So I am very calm and we can leave with our heads held high."

Chris Bevan
BBC Sport at Khalifa International Stadium, Qatar

Of all the unexpected lessons learnt so far at this World Cup, perhaps the biggest one is that you write Japan off at your peril.

Their next opponents, Croatia, beware - because the Blue Samurai have emerged as the comeback kings of Qatar, and their inspired substitutions have already claimed two huge victims.

Japan's brilliant recovery to beat Germany in their first game of the tournament had felt like a freak result when they followed it up with a limp defeat to Costa Rica that left them as outsiders to reach the last 16.

But, back at Khalifa International Stadium, also the scene of that stunning opening victory, Hajime Moriyasu's side staged a brilliant repeat performance against Spain to emerge as unlikely winners of Group E.

They became only the third team in World Cup history to be losing at half-time and come back to win two matches at the same tournament, after Brazil in 1938 and West Germany in 1970, and did so in memorable style.

Read more about how comeback kings Japan cannot be underestimated.

Here's how the Japan fans celebrated after reaching the last 16 for the fourth time...

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Hajime Moriyasu said Japan "persisted" and "persevered" during their victory over Spain and then gave his verdict on the goal everybody is talking about.

Speaking through an interpreter, the Japan coach said: "Were just playing to win. We think that our intensity materialised as a goal.

"Whether the ball was out or not, there is great technology nowadays for big football (matches). If it was really out, it would have been a goal kick, but the judgement of the referee was it was in.

"We respected it, but we were willing to respect either way. The final judgement was it was in."

Moriyasu also praised the Japanese supporters inside the Khalifa International Stadium.

"There were many fans who came all the way from Japan and as well those who stayed behind in Japan, and I think our win is also owed to them," he said.

Jurgen Klinsmann
Former Germany head coach

Certainly there is concern. Because as a coach, as a manager, Luis Enrique, he's very realistic, he knows what went right and what went wrong and he will analyse this, he will talk through it with his staff, he will talk to the players, but good for him, he has the opportunity to move on and guide them into the round of 16.

And then it's a completely new game, it's a new start, basically it's a new tournament. Yeah, after the group stage starts a new tournament because it's knockout, it's do or die, and goes all the way to extra time and penalty shootouts. And so you've just got to forget everything that happened in the group phase. And be focused now on your team that you meet in the round of 16. You only plan now from game to game. And that's also the beauty of a World Cup - somehow you got to go through the group phase, and then you got to turn it on.

I'm sure that Spain has the capabilities and the know how to turn it on and to be really strong from now on. And Germany doesn't get that opportunity anymore. The way it played out in this group, they get to live to the other extreme.

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Spain will face Morocco in the bottom half of the draw at 15:00 GMT on Tuesday but coach Luis Enrique was livid at the way his side had panicked as they threw away the chance to secure top spot in the group.

"We are classified for the round of 16, which was the goal, but I am not happy at all," Enrique told a press conference.

"After a match in which the rival was dominated for 80 minutes, but we were the ones who lost. I have nothing to celebrate, I don't celebrate defeats. Yes, we are qualified, but I would have liked to be on top of the group and of course now the brackets (of the draw) change and many things are different."

Enrique added: "In five minutes they scored two goals and in those 10 minutes, they completely dismantled us.

"We have entered collapse mode. If they had needed to score two more goals, they would have scored them against us."

BBC Monitoring
The world through its media

In an unsurprising turn of events, the German media are not particularly happy with how the tournament played out for their team.

Under the headline "German football must stop lying to itself", newspaper Die Welt doesn't hold back , externalon the squad's performance, implying a deeper rot in the system following a second World cup in a row where they failed to get past the group stage.

The paper writes: "Germany is no longer a tournament team. It will take fundamental change to get out of this rut."

Other media have a similarly funerial tone, with two papers arguing the performance signals the "end of a great football nation".

In FAZ's take on the German national team, external, it writes: “Things have been going downhill since winning the 2014 World Cup. The return to the top of the world is just an illusion for the DFB team.”

Similarly, Bild argues , externalleaving in the opening round again is a "disgrace", even if the "extremely controversial millimeter decision in the parallel game between Japan and Spain is bitter".

"And it's possible that Spain didn't give their all during the second half to equalize because they preferred to go through second," the paper adds, perhaps while wearing their tinfoil hats.

Other papers focus more on the chaotic nature of the games being a fitting finale to Germany's lacklustre showing, with Sueddeutsche Zeitung describing the game as, external: "The result that fits the big mess".

In a throwback to happier days of the 2014 semi-final in Brazil, the website Kicker.de, external writes that "only a 10:2 would have helped" the team qualify for the knockouts, given the massive score Spain racked up against Costa Rica.

And finally Der Spiegel characterises , externalthe "debacle in Doha" as being a result of, in typical German fashion, a "lack of efficiency" - as well as the wrong coaching decisions, "structural deficiencies" and the German football administration responsible for decsion making being "stubborn".

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Hansi Flick has only been Germany head coach for 18 months following his appointment after their last-16 defeat to England at last summer's European Championship.

Does the German think he will be leading the national team in future tournaments?

"Honestly, we have just been eliminated, but if you know me and know my team, you know that we can get up quickly and recover from that. That is very important and very decisive for the future," replied Flick.

"In light of the 2024 European Championship, it is difficult to talk about that right after an elimination. Now we need to assess our work here at the World Cup, head into a different direction, and this is the next step that we are going to undertake and we will do that very soon."

Jurgen Klinsmann
Former Germany head coach

I don't know, I know people at the FA, I know Hansi Flick well and I see a team that from an attitude and energy point of view they gave everything today, they shocked themselves that Costa Rica came back - they've always been dangerous at counter-breaks and then from being 2-1 down, turned it around again - and they could have scored a couple of more goals.

You can imagine similar to England, if England leave in the group stage, what the media will do in England, similar to this in Germany, it's gonna be a hurricane coming out there - already is.

There's a lot to think about, a lot to discuss, a lot to analyse. And they know they have one and a half years to prepare for the Euros, which they host in 2024. And maybe that's actually a good thing. Maybe it helps you to kind of re-focus quicker than, if it was a longer period of time.

I think there's a lot of talent in that squad a lot of our talent, they haven't found their high years yet, like you saw in some of the opponents, that are able to get into sixth or seventh gear and Germany hasn't gotten there yet. But they have amazing potential, and we have one wonder child, there's no doubt about it, that comes out as even if they go out in the group phase, but comes out as a winner in terms of performances is Musiala - Jamal is an exceptional, exceptional player. And in a certain way it's not fair to him that he had to go through this experience now that almost the entire team relied on him. It's not fair to him. So I hope that he's not getting any knock from that, because he was outstanding, is full of creativity and, and drive. So I hope that it doesn't stay too long with him because it's the timing he's in the middle of the season, I hope that after a little break, he gets back into his rhythm with his club team. And stays positive, because there is a lot of talent, they can build things fairly quick, towards the Euros.

But the next couple of days will be very, very harsh and difficult because it's pretty much the third disappointment in a row. You had the catastrophe in Russia, you had a disappointment with England in the round of 16. But the people forgive you that because it's England, because it was at Wembley, they just met too early in that tournament. But this is now another shock for German football and I hope that the players stay strong. And after some time reflecting on things that they come out even stronger.

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Qatar is the second World Cup in succession that Germany have crashed out at the group out and while the debate over Japan's controversial winner against Spain will continue, coach Hansi Flick knows what wrong for his side.

"I don't care about other teams because it is all up to us. If you look at the matches and the number of goals, it is our fault," said Flick.

"I am convinced we had possibilities and chances in the (last) match against Spain to win, but you have to take those chances and score and then it would have been a different situation for us.

"There are so many reasons [for Germany's exit], but I am not looking to findexcuses. We did not have a lot of time to train, but it is not down to that. We fulfilled our duty today and went off the pitch with a victory, but the result could have been better."

Jurgen Klinsmann
Former Germany head coach

When you go out after the group phase, there are many reasons, that you will analyse afterwards. Not now, right now overnight.

But when you go then through every game, and you go through everything you did towards the tournament - the preparation, the choices that everybody made involved with the team, you're going to question everything because obviously it didn't work out.

But certainly I think on top of the list is that you didn't convert the chances that you had.

That is definitely an on the pitch issue, that they didn't utilise the chances against Japan, they should have got the second goal far before Japan got back in the game. They've had a strong performance with Spain.

But then it was not in their own hands anymore, based on the results that happened. And that catches up with you. And then you're not looking at any statistics anymore, you're just simply on the bottom.