What we learned from Day 1:
The Portuguese are as good as advertised. Too much pace and skill to be held down for long. They scored 2, but they could have easily had 5. And Ronny is just getting warmed up.
Switzerland can't finish. The Swiss aren't a bad team, but they have the same problem every other average footballing nation suffers from - they don't take their chances (see USA). If they had, they would have cruised to victory. Instead, they are in a huge hole after getting caught on the counter-attack.
Sometimes in football, the better team loses. Czechoslovakia - 1 shot on goal/1 goal - aren't going to do anything special in this tournament, but they put themselves in the drivers seat to finish second in the group behind Portugal.
Turkey is an extraordinarily boring team to watch. We didn't really learn anything else about them today except that they don't have the talent to compete with Portugal. With the hosts coming up next, this has the potential to be an extremely short Euro for them.
What we didn't learn from Day 1:
How many holes exist in Portugal's backline. Watching Pepe score twice (though only one counted) got me to wondering if a team with firepower (e.g. Spain) might not be able to take advantage of Portugal's commitment to attack. They will be tested later in the tournament, you can bank on that.
Group A Standings after Day 1
Portugal 3 +2
Czech Republic 3 +1
Switzerland 0 -1
Turkey 0 -2
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