FULL-TIME: CROATIA 2-1 GERMANY

Modric has his name taken too for a late tackle on Metzelder when trying to latch onto a through ball - this game has an ugly sting in the tail

Lehmann and Leko are booked for their parts in the melee as the referee stamps his authority on the late flash point

Schweinsteiger sees red for stupidly pushing Leko out of frustration - there's a hint of play-acting but he raised his hands and had to go

Three minutes of stoppages will be added

The Croatia fans backed behind their own goal are whistling furiously as they begin to anticipate a famous and fully-deserved win

Germany are pushing forward in numbers as the seconds begin to tick away but every attack is repelled by a wall of blue-shirted defenders

Croatia seem happy to sit back and clear their lines in these closing minutes and that could be a really dangerous tactic

Dario Knezevic comes on for Kranjcar in a final Croatia change

Leko's first touch is a powerful shot which Lehmann athletically palms out of the air before the defence clears the loose ball - Germany had gone to sleep though

Germany send on striker Kevin Kuranyi for Fritz

Jerko Leko comes on for the hard-working but tired Srna

CROATIA 2-1 GERMANY: It's game on again as Ballack heads down a Lahm cross and PODOLSKI lashes home with his left foot from eight yards after a lucky deflection off Robert Kovac

Croatia are playing with everybody behind the ball now and Germany just don't look capable of unlocking this well-drilled defence

Kranjcar holds off the attention of Ballack and tests Lehmann with a 20-yard shot which the keeper claims on the first bounce

Ballack is booked for a frustrated late lunging tackle on Rakitic

Schweinsteiger beats marker Srna inside the box and drills a low shot across the face of goal and narrowly wide of the far post

Olic heads off to be replaced by Mladen Petric

Pranjic's lashes a shot following a corner back through the danger zone as Croatia continue to look the more likely to score

Srna's 25-yard free-kick bounces away to safety off the top of the wall in a let off for Germany as that looked destined for the top corner

Bastian Schweinsteiger comes on for the ineffective Gomez

Germany are really struggling to get anything out of this match now and a massive shock could well be on the cards

CROATIA 2-0 GERMANY: OLIC can't believe his luck as Rakitic's cross deflects off Podolski and Lehmann turns it onto his upright before the ball bounces back to the striker to slot home into an empty net - that's fortunate but Croatia won't care!

Gomez breaks into the corner of the penalty area but he opts to pass rather than shoot and plays the ball in behind Klose - that was poor from the Stuttgart man who might be living on borrowed time in this match

Frings catches Srna in a midfield challenge but the goalscorer should be okay to continue after some treatment on his ankle

Croatia are sitting back on their lead and this could be a dangerous tactic as Germany continue to dominate

Ballack looks unhappy with his team-mates who seem happy to play a patient probing style despite the scoreline - as skipper he's trying to rally the troops

Lehmann punts a long ball straight down the pitch to his opposite number and Joachim Low on the German bench looks less than happy with that!

Germany are well in control of possession in the opening stages of this second period with Croatia happy to play on the break

Pletikosa punches out a cross from Lahm but Ballack can only side-foot it back over the bar with a difficult half-volley from 18 yards

Odonkor's first touch results in a corner as his cross is deflected behind - he could well have an impact in the outcome of this match from a wide right position

Germany have made an attacking change at half-time by bringing on David Odonkor for Jansen

Croatia kick-off the second half

HALF-TIME: CROATIA 1-0 GERMANY

Simic is needlessly booked for kicking the ball away

One minute of time will be added as the rain begins to pour down in Klagenfurt

Klose is on hand to knock the ball into the empty net but Gomez is adjudged to have fouled Pletikosa who spilled an up-and-under - that seemed the right call by the referee

Niko Kranjcar sees a volley from ten yards parried well by Lehmann after a strong run and cut back from Corluka down the right flank - that too should have been a goal especially on the Portsmouth's man stronger left foot

Metzelder rises above his marker to meet a Frings corner but heads over from just outside the six-yard box - that should have been the equaliser and he knows it!

The two captains - Ballack and Niko Kovac - are spoken to by the referee after a spot or pushing at a corner

Germany are back in control of possession but it is Croatia on the break who look much more capable of scoring at the moment

Podolski and Jensen both go for the same loose ball inside the Croatia box and a chance of a shot is lost as the ball rolls limply out for a goal-kick

Michael Ballack tests Pletikosa as his thunderous free-kick is just about palmed away by the keeper for a corner

Robert Kovac is lucky to escape a caution for a crunching tackle through the back of Klose 35 yards from his own goal

Olic heads the ball down to Rakitic who arrives late into the box but blazes an effort on the stretch high over the crossbar - he should have done better and that would have put Croatia into a really comfortable position

Klose wildly over-hits a pass which would have played strike partner Podolski though one-on-one and he looks less than impressed with that effort

Croatia are harrying and chasing the ball over the pitch and at the moment the Germans look a little rattled - especially at the back

Goalscorer Srna is the first name in the book for a late diving challenge which takes out Lukas Podolski to the left of the Croatia box

Jansen beats his marker and flashes over a cross which Mario Gomez heads over from eight yards under pressure from Simic

CROATIA 1-0 GERMANY: SRNA stabs his side ahead from six yards as he arrives late and sneaks ahead of Jansen to slide a Danijel Pranjic cross past the helpless Lehmann

Frings gets in behind full-back Vedran Corluka but Robert Kovac hacks clear his cross looking for Klose in the area

Christoph Metzelder executes a perfect sliding tackle to dispossess Olic in the Germany penalty area - that was a high tariff but superbly-timed piece of defending

This has been a fairly low-key opening to a match which promises much as neither keeper has made any sort of save yet

Dario Simic meets Srna's inswinging corner with his head at the near post but his glancing effort poses no real danger to Jens Lehmann's goal

Olic is just beaten to a cross by Mertesacker who heads over his own bar as the whistle blows for a push by the Croatia striker

Germany counter-attack with pace but Klose can't control Philipp Lahm's pass and a good chance on the edge of the penalty area goes begging

Niko Kranjcar almost gets his head to Srna's whipped free-kick from the right touchline but the German defence clears the danger

Jansen powers down the left and sends over a quality cross which Robert Kovac heads clear despite a near mix-up with goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa

Croatia are slowly gaining a foothold in this game after a cagey opening with Luka Modric beginning to pull the strings in the hole behind the strikers

At the other end, the long legs of Per Mertesacker just about stop a through ball from finding the breaking Ivica Olic

Miroslav Klose almost finds Torsten Frings in acres of space in the Croatia box but his square pass if just about deflected clear of its intended target

Marcell Jansen wins a fairly cheap free-kick after claiming Darijo Srna has left his foot in on a challenge and the Croatia bench don't like that call

Germany are bossing possession in the opening minutes but the play is condensed in the midfield third

Germany get this game underway

Germany are unchanged from the side that thrashed Poland 3-0 at the weekend, while the only new face in the Croatia team that stuttered to a 1-0 win over the co-hosts is Ivan Rakitic for Mladen Petric

Both sides know that victory would confirm their passage into the last eight, having defeated Poland and Austria respectively in their first round of fixtures

Germany face Croatia this afternoon in Klagenfurt in the first of the second round of Group B matches