In what is the tightest European group, Ukraine is heading to Iceland on Tuesday, while Turkey hosts Croatia. Yacine Brahimi’s long-range shot put Algeria back in the game early in the second half. Unfortunately, we either need to change the whole playing group, or as often is the case, the chief coach is the one who suffers. The German was India’s first tryst with a foreign coach in a sport where eight Olympic gold medals were supposed to mean the country needed no outside help. Another American advanced when 20th-seeded CoCo Vandeweghe outlasted 2012 Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. “It’s lucky when it does go in but either way, I probably would have just had a tap-in if it didn’t. The core group of players that underachieved for most of the foreign coaches in the recent past has . African champion Cameroon and Ghana are also way off the pace in their groups. never begun a game for his country in a major tournament, but he set his home stadium alight with a formidable display as Spain grabbed Group G by the scruff of the neck. With chief selector MSK Prasad confirming a middle-order role for KL Rahul before the series, Rahane becomes Dhawan’s shoo-in.