Captain Marvel (aka Michael Ballack) - as his nickname in the German dressing room most certainly isn’t - has certainly proved his worth to the team by excelling himself in the two games that his national side have played so far. Maybe not grabbing the headlines like Podolski for finding the back of the net, Ballack has done some stellar work in the midfield, especially against Croatia where, despite the loss, he ran further and faster than anyone else. In fact, as the CPI boys have pointed out, in tonight’s opponents Austria, no player has broken the 30km/h barrier so he should easily be the fastest man on the pitch.

Austria, though, have a shooting machine in the form of Andreas Ivanschitz who has had seven shots so far in the two games played, outstripping his team mates by three. None of them have found their way across the line yet, but it’s surely only a matter of time. And looking at his heat map, he’s trying his luck mostly from the right corner of the penalty area – so if Joachim Löw wants his players to clamp down on him, then that’s the area they need to look out for.

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