Germany v Group A/B/C/D/F third-placed team (Kick-off 9.30pm). Coverage of the round-of-32 match at Boston Stadium in the USA. Germany thrashed Curaçao 7-1 and then came from behind to edge out Ivory Coast to secure their place as Group E winners. It might be expected for the third-placed qualifiers to struggle in this round, but the last two times the format allowed some of the teams finishing in third to reach the knockout stage were in the 24-team tournaments of 1990 and 1994, and on those occasions, Argentina and Italy respectively made it all the way to the final after progressing from outside the top two