Originally Posted by misawa97:
“No because I'm not taking about one side. I'm not saying Portugal were the problem I'm saying the tournament as a whole was poor with very few goals and it was the format that played a huge part in that.”
I don't think the whole tournament has been bad - I thoroughly enjoyed the group games but the knockout stages have been pretty poor.
You could put that down to 2 or 3 things though:
International teams are so well drilled nowadays that the good teams are virtually impossible to break down.
No outstanding team in Europe - sure Germany can still play any team off the park but in the attacking third they are pretty light (which is why I didn't fancy them to win it).
You also had a lope-sided draw where all the decent teams were in the same half ... again not a fault of the format.
In general the finishing and shooting in open play has been horrific.