Germany v Ecuador LIVE: World Cup score and updates as Group E reaches climax

What a strike, and what a start to the Group E finales!

Nilson Angulo lets fly from distance and drills into the bottom corner, flying through the legs of Pavlovic which might explain why Neuer was so slow to react.

Ecuador’s World Cup is anything but over!

Ivory Coast take the lead!

They’d started well, putting Curacao under real pressure, and it pays off.

Diomande with some great footwork in the box initially, out to the left, but he loses the ball… only for a poor defensive mix-up to allow him possession again.

He cuts it back for Pepe, who sweeps it home from close range!

5 mins: Question marks might surround the giving of the goal, but Germany have started by far the better team.

Wirtz did well to break in behind in the opening moments which led to the throw that Germany scored from.

Well then, no VAR intervention after all. Ecuador are fuming, and understandably so if we’re honest.

A NIGHTMARE start for Ecuador!

Florian Wirtz tees up Leroy Sane who slots home to break the deadlock inside two minutes – but there might be early VAR intervention.

Pavlovic’s boot is high and he catches his man off the throw…

And we’re also underway in Philadelphia.

And we’re off in New Jersey(-NewYork)!

Big stakes across the group, for all those other than Germany.

Ecuador, whose impressive defensive record had them pegged as the World Cup dark horses, need a win to stay alive.

We’re in on kick-off in New Jersey… and the players are making their way out to the centre circle.

Time for the national anthems!

Right folks, we’re just 10 minutes away from kick-off as both Germany vs Ecuador and Curacao vs Ivory Coast get underway simultaneously.

While Germany are confirmed as Group E leaders, there are still a lot of moving parts and all could change by the final whistle.

Here is what the Group E table currently looks like: