Outside of their own optimistic compatriots, very few people chose Portugal as their favourites to win the 2016 European Championship.
Even fewer would have made that wager after the group stage, a torturous affair that Portugal lurched through without winning a single game. Yet there they were at the end, dancing on the Paris pitch with the trophy in their hands.
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