Athletic Iceland look best-equipped outsider to reach last 16

Michel Platini is in disgrace, his career with Uefa apparently over, but his legacy to this tournament lives on.

Whatever Platini’s motives for expanding the tournament, it has given the big teams a few potential banana skins and given a chance of progress to the knockout stage for the smaller ones, even the rank outsiders.

It has also created an unprecedented opportunity for players from the Premier League and Championship, with the Republic, Northern Ireland, England, and Wales involved.