Home shorts as worn as the team showed their resilience, drawing all 3 group stage games, advancing to the knockout stage in 3rd place in their group. A tough test against a talented Croatia team drove the game to extra time where Ricardo Quaresma scored to book a place in the Quarter-finals. Hard fought wins against Poland and the tournaments fairlytale story, Wales, saw the team meet France in the final. With his only goal of the tournament, Eder wrote his name into the European history books with an extra time winner, with Ronaldo lifting his first ever major international trophy