The German's reluctance to give his young bucks a run out was ultimately a misjudgment against Madagascar
Every now and again, football serves up a shock so unprecedented, and yet so utterly explicable, that one cannot help but laugh.
Sunday was one of those days: Madagascar’s most famous victory in their history coming against a hodgepodge of a Nigerian side caught between two stools with its pants down.
Step back and view the bigger picture, and it is not outrageous that, having secured qualification, a team might elect to keep some of its best players back and so get rocked.