PORTUGAL 1-0 FRANCE (aet) - IAN LADYMAN AT THE STADE DE FRANCE: A bad final to conclude what has been a modest tournament.
Perhaps it is fitting, therefore, that its winners - via an extra-time goal from a former Swansea striker - are a team that finished third in their group and lifted the trophy having won just one game out of their seven within 90 minutes. Portugal deserve credit for their pluck, but that is about it. They lost their captain and best player Cristiano Ronaldo to a knee injury midway through the first half. Caused by a challenge from Dimitri Payet, it was bad luck but nothing more. It was a firm challenge by the West Ham player but not a foul. After that Portugal simply hung on and hoped. They hoped that they may get a break. They didn't. They hoped that they may get to extra-time. They did and then somehow they won it.
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