Even a snoozing Harry Kane finds a way through Germany's current back three. Raheem Sterling nips in behind and Jack Grealish ploughs the Wembley field between centre-back and fullback.
Mats Hummels was back in the fold. Matthias Ginter, at 27, should be approaching his prime and is a tournament veteran, having been part of Germany's World Cup and Confederation Cup-winning sides of 2014 and 2017, as well as the team that won silver at the 2016 Olympics. The back three were supposedly less of an issue. And they enjoyed gifted support from Joshua Kimmich and Robin Gosens, an early star of the tournament.
Meanwhile, Ilkay Guendogan, having spent most of the season playing a stand-in Kevin de Bruyne for Manchester City, doesn't seem overly keen on playing a stand-in Declan Rice for Germany. He got lucky with six minutes to spare, but Hungary's otherwise successful and rather straightforward strategy won't have gone unnoticed in the England camp.
He's an underdog. The Germans are underdogs against England, a preposterous proposition in the past, but one that's entirely in keeping with this strange, knockabout tournament.