Despite looking like a drunk best man at a wedding, super-coach Slaven Bilic seems to have put together some interesting tactics at the beginning of this game to try and combat the might of the Germans.

For despite the group-topping side being extraordinarily effective, skilful and pacy on the ball, our favourite man(ager) pretty much in the world has noted that the German midfield play in a very narrow – dominating the centre of the park, and has sent his wingers bolting down the flanks on more than one occasion to open up the Deutsch defence.

Just look at the heat map below, powered by the CPI, to show exactly what we mean.

Oh, and there’s a Croatian goal. One nil to the underdogs, and a great cross from the under-manned wing.