This looked, after 25 minutes, like it could be an absolute walkover. Germany were ruthless, clinical in their finishing, tireless in the running, awesome all over the pitch. Then Portugal woke up and started to fire on all cylinders. Deco, Simao, Ronaldo and Gomes providing exquisite touches all over the field, and eventually combining to ensure Nuno could fire one home from 7 yards. But which form of attack is going to prevail? A look at the Castrol Index heat maps shows that the German attack has been covering more area of the pitch (but only 228m in total), and fairly biased towards the left, whereas the Portuguese have been fairly central and concentrated. Which tactic will come good? Only time will tell…

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