A second half not without incident, but very lame in terms of excitement and action. A result predicted earlier by yours truly, although admittedly I hedged my bets a little bit by saying I wouldn’t know who would get the goal. Still, both results in a day, I’m on fire!

Back to the stats, and those good people at the Castrol Index have provided us with the evidence we needed to show that the Greek midfield just didn’t deliver the goods when it came to the crunch. When you compare the amount of ground they covered per man it shows that the hard yards just didn’t get put in. The 28427m covered by the 3 man Greek mid line works out at 9475.6m per man. The 64153m by the 5 men of Russia equals 12830.6! and the extra 3km each really showed when it came down to it. Look at the heat maps, and the result, and the fact that Greece are out, and tell me the tactics were right. You can’t.