Are the Argentines being overrated by the media and the bookmakers? They came through Group B with flying colours, although Nigeria, South Korea and Greece were not great teams and La Albiceleste were also fortunate that Carlos Tevez’s offside goal was allowed to stand against Mexico.

Perhaps Diego Maradona’s team will get their first real test on Saturday when they meet up with another team that have scored nine goals during this tournament. Germany had a tougher section from which to qualify, while the way that they dealt with England was mightily impressive.

Both teams have question marks over their defence and their attacking approaches should lead to a high-scoring affair, although there’s no way that Die Mannschaft should be rank outsiders with Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mesut Ozil looking to exploit any gaps in the Argentina defence.

Joachim Loew has a young team and, while they might lack experience, there is lots of energy which means that they should avoid defeat in this match. The only game they have lost so far was against Serbia and that was down to a bad refereeing decision and a missed penalty.

PREDICTION: GERMANY + 0 ON ASIAN HANDICAP @ 2.35 with bet365