France run out of luck, Portugal not.
I was reading a good interview from Lucien Favre about the Euros. He said to many teams and the players are to tired from the regular season plus Champions league games, he is even more concerned about the plan for 40 nations world cup. He thinks fans are not stupid and will switch of because games going to be boring. He also says soon there will be only 5 5 tactics because players will be so flexible to switch to what ever is need in the game situation. He has not a good single word on Italy, he said they only play 5 in the back because they are just not good enough to play with 4 in the back, and the general lack of talent and no youth. Favre also disliked the whole 'defense tactic' talk he thinking it is easier to defend that why teams do it when they have no other quality. That said he is attack minded coach. He had some nicer words for Germany to actually try to play good football and had the quality but could not compensate all the injury in the semi, he think they are to slow moving forward.
I agree with him about the boring defensive tactics, I rather see my team occasional lose an exciting game than watching a defensive bore fest. It not always the result we like to see, it is the spectacle on the pitch. That why everybody loved Iceland, they played with some guts.