But as the match intensified in what was a mostly defensive battle, all eyes were on the screen until Germany scored its goal in overtime.
The move comes as sectarian violence, long a feature of Celtic-Rangers' matches, intensifies at other Premier League games in Scotland.
When she became queen, speculation about a suitable match immediately intensified, and the available options became a matter of grave national concern.
As the match has intensified, so have Nadal's pre-serve compulsions, his right hand dancing from his right ear to his nose, left ear to his left shoulder, then hitting all of those landmarks again in reverse order on his return trip.
But the year's best game was Naughty Dog's The Last of Us, which achieved a level of emotional intimacy generally considered impossible for big-budget releases, matched and intensified by lean, brutal gameplay.
The four singles that introduced the Who between January 1965 and March 1966—"I Can't Explain," "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere," "My Generation," and "Substitute"—declared themselves in an unprecedented fury of compressed sonic aggression, an artistic statement matched and intensified onstage by Townshend's habit of smashing his guitar to climax concerts.
Second, as matching difficulty intensified, cross-hemispheric functional connectivity (CFC) increased in domain-general frontopolar cortex (for both word and face matching) but decreased in domain-specific ventral temporal lobe regions (temporal pole for word matching and fusiform gyrus for face matching).
As countless players point out, that intimacy intensifies matches for both them and fans.
Excitement had been building since he shook hands with the owner Andrea Della Valle, and when Italian news media outlets broadcast images of him scoring for the first time in a training match it merely intensified.
This match will really intensify his focus to make sure he comes out and really puts in a good performance on Friday against Janowicz, because it's not going to be easy.
