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Germany made it ten wins in a row with a commanding 7-1 triumph over World Cup debutants Curaçao on Sunday, laying down a marker that they shouldn’t be overlooked moving forward in this tournament. Those seven goals helped them finish the matchday as the World Cup’s leading all-time scorers (239 goals),

and they now find themselves in an incredibly strong position as they bid to avoid a third straight group-stage exit. A failure to keep a clean sheet in any of their last seven World Cup fixtures, their longest such run since 1970, hints at a chink in their armour, but scoring 3+ goals in six of their ten successive wins shows they have more than enough firepower to overcome that defensive fragility.

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Ivory Coast also opened their campaign with a victory, albeit a much less convincing one, as they beat Ecuador 1-0 to claim their fourth international victory in a row.

Three of them against sides ranked inside FIFA’s top 25 suggests they shouldn’t be overawed by the occasion here, and with the expanded format of this World Cup allowing more sides to progress to the knockouts, the Elephants must feel that a first-ever knockout appearance is within reach. Even defeat here wouldn’t be a disaster given their group stage campaign concludes against World Cup minnows Curaçao.

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