Iceland's ten German lessons

Nine goals in their first two games have given Germany an unassailable lead at the head of Group B and they will look to add to their tally in the final group fixture when they face an Iceland team who know they can't avoid finishing in last place.

• Germany followed up their 4-0 victory against Norway with another win by the same expansive margin as they dispatched France 5-1. Linda Bresonik scored a penalty in both games but the 2005 UEFA European Women's Championship winners have had no less than seven different scorers in the two fixtures. Fatmire Bajramaj is the only other player to register more than a single goal as she weighed in with two in the dying minutes against Norway.

• Iceland took a sixth-minute lead in their opener against France only to lose 3-1. They could not revive their fortunes on Matchday 2, falling to Norway 1-0 and are guaranteed to finish fourth no matter how they fare against Germany.

• The reigning world and European champions have played Iceland ten times and recorded ten wins, scoring 46 goals to their opponents' three.

• Their four most recent meetings have all been UEFA European Women's Championship qualifiers and Germany won them all with a total of 18 unanswered goals, increasing their margin of victory by one each time.

• Prior to the 1997 edition, which Germany were to win, these teams were drawn together in the play-offs. Germany won the first leg in Reykjavik 3-0 with two goals from Martina Voss and one by Steffi Jones. Eleven days later in Koblenz the scoreline was 4-0, Adriane Hingst scoring twice and Heidi Mohr and Kerstin Stegemann also on target. Other players involved in the match were Nadine Angerer, Birgit Prinz and Inka Grings.

• They were then drawn together in qualifying for the next edition in 2001. Germany won their home encounter 5-0 on 14 October 1999 in Oldenburg having led 3-0 at the break through Grings, Bettina Wiegmann and Voss. Wiegmann and substitute Claudia Müller added to the scoreline.

• The teams were:
Germany: Silke Rottenberg, Kerstin Stegemann, Steffi Jones, Doris Fitschen (Stefanie Gottschlich), Ariane Hingst, Martina Voss, Bettina Wiegmann, Maren Meinert (Tanja Wörle), Sandra Smisek, Birgit Prinz (Claudia Müller), Inka Grings.
Iceland: Thóra Björg Helgadóttir, Audur Skúladóttir, Gudlaug Jónsdóttir, Rakel Björk Ögmundsdóttir, Edda Gardarsdóttir (Íris Sæmundsdóttir), Sigrún Sigríthur Óttarsdóttir (Helena Ólafsdóttir), Margrét Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Gudrún Jóna Kristjánsdóttir, Ásgerdur Hildur Ingibergsdóttir, Rósa Júlía Steinthórsdóttir (Gudrún Sóley Gunnarsdóttir), Katrín Jónsdóttir.

• By the time they met again on 17 August 2000 in Reykjavik, Germany had already clinched qualification and were to go on to retain the title on home soil the following year. Germany won the match 6-0, with Jones and Hingst striking in the first five minutes and Prinz adding two more before the break. Meinert and Müller, again a substitute, scored late on.

• The teams were:
Iceland: Thóra Björg Helgadóttir, Gudrún Sóley Gunnarsdóttir, Helga Ósk Hannesdóttir, Íris Sæmundsdóttir, Rakel Logadóttir (Rósa Júlía Steinthórsdóttir), Ásthildur Helgadóttir (Elfa Erlingsdóttir), Margrét Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Erla Hendriksdóttir, Katrín Jónsdóttir, Rakel Björk Ögmundsdóttir, Ásgerdur Hildur Ingibergsdóttir (Olga Færseth).
Germany: Silke Rottenberg, Tina Wunderlich (Melanie Hoffmann), Steffi Jones, Doris Fitschen, Sandra Minnert, Ariane Hingst, Bettina Wiegmann, Maren Meinert, Renate Lingor (Sandra Smisek), Inka Grings (Claudia Müller), Birgit Prinz.

• Germany won the last UEFA Competition for National Representative Women Teams in 1989 with a 4-1 win against Norway in Osnabruck and the first UEFA European Women's Championship two years later, beating the same team 3-1 after extra time in Aalborg. After Norway took the title in 1993, Germany regained it in 1995 and successfully defended in 1997, 2001 and 2005, also winning the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cups.

• After this tournament, Germany's next scheduled competitive match is their opening game as hosts of the 2011 World Cup on 26 June 2011 at Berlin's Olympiastadion. The final is on 17 July in Frankfurt, with further host cities including Augsburg, Bochum, Dresden, Leverkusen, Monchengladbach, Sinsheim and Wolfsburg. The only previous World Cup in Europe was in Sweden in 1995, when Norway beat Germany 2-0 in the final in Stockholm.