Neither of these teams will have been particularly pleased with their opening games of this World Cup.
Germany lost to Venezuela, 2-0, which immediately puts it under some pressure: it could be all but eliminated from the tournament if it loses to Mexico and Venezuela beats Vanuatu.
Of course, Germany will still expect to beat Vanuatu by a lot of goals, and three points plus a healthy goal difference should be sufficient to clinch one of the four knockout-round places available to third-placed teams from the group stage. But the Germans were lucky-loser qualifiers for this tournament in the first place: the team is leaving it very late to find form if it also needs a consolation-prize entry to the latter stages of this competition as well.