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Hello and welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of Switzerland v Germany in Frankfurt. This particular rubber is both dead and alive. Dead because the two teams have qualified for the last 16*, alive because of what happens next. Germany need to avoid defeat to win the group and secure a theoretically easier game in the last 16.
Here’s where it gets complicated. The winners of this group will play the runners-up in Denmark’s group in the last 16 – but then they would be on course to face Spain, exhilarating Spain, in the quarter-finals.
The runners-up, by contrast, would be on course to face Italy, Croatia or Albania in the last 16 – tricky, but winnable – and then potentially the winner of Denmark’s group in the quarter-finals.
Every bloody tournament we do this, don’t we: plot the whole thing to within an inch of its life, even though we know full well it never pans out like that. Let’s just enjoy some football and let the chips fall where they may.
Kick off 8pm.
* Switzerland haven’t officially qualified, but the turn of events required for them to be knocked out is so unlikely that, if the Guardian encouraged gambling, I’d invite you to pick your own odds.