For an hour this was a tense, cagey watch that Ivory Coast were quietly winning, with Franck Kessie's 30th-minute strike giving the match a story and Germany barely a pulse. It was the kind of first half where you check your phone and miss nothing.

Then the bench saved the broadcast. Germany's triple change on the hour was basically an admission that the starters had run out of ideas, and within eight minutes Deniz Undav volleyed in a Nadiem Amiri cross to drag the game back from the dead. Suddenly the match had something to say.

The 94th minute is what entertainment looks like: Undav takes a pass from Nmecha just inside the box, turns, and finishes to win it in stoppage time. A late, earned, scarcely deserved-on-the-balance-of-an-hour winner. As a spectacle it delivered, even if Germany made you suffer for the payoff.