Performance, performance, performance.
In such a capricious sport, perhaps this hammers home why performance matters over outcome, nearly always. For those looking beyond the here and now.
But in the here and the now, a mended heart must heal, and to heal it must grieve, through careful studying of and immersion within, the numbers of a match that will be written beside the dictionary definition of “Heroic Defeat”.
So start your healing here.
And rejoice too, at resplendent foe. The wonderous Joshua Kimmich and the sinuous Michael Oliseh are to be admired.