Match Report
England went into the game 1st in the table on 5 points; Slovenia sat 3rd on 3 — a 2-point gap. Slovenia ranked just 16th in the league on five-round form despite their 3rd table position. Scoring rates set the scale: England 0.67 scored and 0.33 conceded per game, Slovenia 0.67 and 0.67, with the league averaging 1.13.
Slovenia arrived off three consecutive draws, having scored in 14 consecutive games.
The match was played at RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne (capacity 50,000). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.