With Andrei Arshavin making his first start after a two match ban, the Russians have had the better of the first half with 55% of the possession to Sweden’s 45%. Inspite of Russia’s one goal lead Sweden have began to get into the game inspite of being the oldest team in the tournament against the legs of the young Russian side.

A quick look at the amount of work done by the Russian defence when compared to their Swedish counterpoarts soon tells us that Russia are pressing and probing down the right, and the defence as a whole is striving to support whenever possible. In fact, if you compare the two heat maps from the Castrol Index, Sweden simply look like a skinnier version of their opponents - Russia Lite if you will.

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