Germany were marching with power and purpose towards nine points from a possible nine in World Cup Group E, until Sunderland’s Nilson Angulo’s spirited run and decent swinging strike from distance cancelled out Leroy Sane’s early opener seven minutes after he’d scored it.
One of the 17 of Ecuador’s 26 World Cup squad members produced by the country’s talent-factory Independiente del Valle, Angulo’s pot-shot took Manuel Neuer by surprise. The 40-year-old was slow to get down.