Livano Comenencia scored a historic goal -- the first World Cup goal ever for the smallest nation to qualify -- and Curaçao briefly gave Germany reason to doubt themselves and remember the recent World Cup group-stage failures of 2018 and 2022.

Kai Havertz scored two goals as Germany pulled away from World Cup first-timer Curaçao late in the opening half and piled on after that in a 7-1 win Sunday in a group match

Ecuador and Ivory Coast kick off their World Cup campaigns on Sunday, June 14 when they face off in Philadelphia.Both teams will fancy their chances of advancing out of Group F, where Curaçao and Germany also await.

That is a game that could, but probably won't, deliver the greatest upset in World Cup history, the four-time champions against a side representing just over 150,000 people. Let's get into it. A quick glance at most bookmakers' odds or prediction models before the tournament had an inner circle of six teams that looked like realistic World Cup winners.

The Germany shot-stopper interrupted his international retirement as he seeks to close out a legendary career with steep highs and lows.