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HOUSTON -- Curaçao played the David role well for a while in their 7-1 loss to mighty Germany .

Livano Comenencia scored a historic goal -- the first World Cup goal ever for the smallest nation to qualify -- and Curaçao briefly gave Germany reason to doubt themselves and remember the recent World Cup group-stage failures of 2018 and 2022.

The Goliaths kept their heads, however, and eventually established harsh control in front of a crowd of 68,021. Nico Schlotterbeck 's 38th-minute header from a corner put them ahead for good, and a deluge followed all the way through Kai Havertz 's second goal…