Let’s ignore for a minute Fernando Torres’ new Clark Kent hairstyle, and the fact that (as Mrs. Tom so helpfully pointed out ‘These two sides haven’t got those funny numbers on their backs’), Germany are being shown exactly how to play football in this Euro 2008 final. Pass and move, the quintessential tactic that defines the game is very much front and centre in Spain’s game, with the German defence struggling to cope with the diagonal play of the speedy Spanish.

The story of the half shows exactly 50:50 possession, but the telling stat is the shot tally. Spain have fired off 6 shots to Germany’s 2. TWO. In 45 minutes. As Ray Stubbs so eloquently put it just now on the BBC ‘Spain will reaaly kick themselves if they don’t win it from here.’

Stats from Castrolindex.com