Quote Originally Posted by Kind of Blue View Post
If an illustration were needed, both ourselves and the Swiss could’ve taken invitational berths for the Copa America this year comfortably with the distance both squads have travelled for the Euros.
While not an excuse, the distance the players have travelled in such a short time is certainly a mitigating factor.

No team, no matter how accomplished could perform consistently well if they have to travel large distances between games, change hotels, move to different training facilities etc etc. Even the fittest of athletes would suffer from such disruptions.

Platini has made many bad decisions in his time at the helm, but making some teams travel to Asia while others remain in their backyard is possibly the worst of the lot.

I am as proud of our team as much as I was in 2016. We are the smallest nation in the tournament, we qualified from a tough group and for the most part played as well as can be expected. Ultimately we met a very good footballing side who were too strong for us on the day. Just keep supporting the team and let's put this bad result behind us.