Game in numbers: Germany’s 1966 World Cup final flashback and Harry Maguire’s birthday partner

The best two “shots differences” (a team’s shots taken minus shots faced) recorded by any side in a group campaign over the past four World Cups have been Germany’s plus-40 in 2018 (outcome: group-stage exit) – and Germany’s plus-43 this year (outcome: group-stage exit). England have advanced further than Germany for a second World Cup in a row having been eliminated earlier in the previous 12.

Germany suffered a 1966 World Cup final flashback: they played a match that finished 4-2 and exited the tournament after a controversy relating to whether a ball had crossed a line (Japan’s winner against Spain). Even so, their victory over Costa Rica made them the first team to win a World Cup game by at least two goals having