| Ka-pi96 said: Saw a question on Sky Sports this morning asking if people thought Portugal were worthy winners. So, what do y'all think? Strictly speaking I'd say they weren't. But then again I can't really think of a team that I would consider to be worthy winners so... maybe I could say they were the worthiest team that actually showed up or something  |
Winning tournaments is always a mix of hard work and some luck. Portugal is a team that has showed up in every main tournament in the last 15 years. Consistently advances from the group stage aswell. It was a natural result of alot of work built through several years. One day, we were gonna get there. This time we did. It was definitly deserved, especially after losing the final in 2004.
I know people say those things because they like the teams that play the better looking offensive football. Portugal has done that many times before but didn't win. This time they played pragmaticly and won. It's football. There isn't just one strategy to win. But, not only did Portugal play overall one more game than everyone else with the extra times, but was running more than the french in the extra time. That is the work ofall the staff and players. I am sure that playing as they were, very few teams would be capable of stopping Portugal. Even germany would've had very difficult time.
So yes, of course Portugal deserved to win. Wether people like the way they played or not.
