Portugal could only manage three draws in the group stage of UEFA Euro
2016, against Iceland, Austria and Hungary. On two of those occasions,
Cristiano Ronaldo, its best player, probably the world’s second-best
player, at least on club form, cut a strangely subdued figure. It was
not as though Ronaldo was not involved in the games—he missed several
chances in each, managed to insult Iceland to levels of diplomatic
incident and fluffed a penalty against Austria—rather that Portugal’s
desperate attempts to play with, and through, its greatest individual
stymied him and it. In the wild 3-3 draw with Hungary that sent Portugal
through, Ronaldo performed his Superman act, a superlative flick and a
header rescuing his reputation, and his country’s chances in the
tournament.
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