Cristiano isn’t used to losing when it comes to playing for his club, so why should it be any different for him when he pulls on the national strip? Against the Czech Republic he was instrumental in the victory – scoring the second goal and laying on the third – and yet it would be fair to argue he didn’t set the game alight. He wasn’t allowed space to make his trademark runs, there weren’t many tricks and stepovers to speak of, but he made a good fist of making sure his team won. His work rate wasn’t immense, and he visibly spent most of his time on the left side of the field. The heat map from the CPI shows, however, that he actually covered a lot more of the pitch than he was given credit for, probably looking for that perfect angle to make a killer run or pass (see third Portugal goal for details).

Poor Diego Benaglio, Switzerland’s hapless keeper. The line of defenders in front of him managed to restrict their opponents to just three shots on target in their opening two games of the tournament. But they all found the back of his net. He has a 0% saving record of shots on target. Zip, nada, zilch. Cue Switzerland being only the second host nation to bow out of the championships at the knock out stages. When you look at Benaglio’s stats, it’s easy to understand why.

Tom thinks this game will be another mighty Portuguese victory, but with the Swiss playing for pride, they’ll be restricted to a 2-0 win.

Jack concurs - a first for this tournament - and also goes for a 2-0 Portugal win.

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