It couldn't work again now could it? Greece won Euro 2004 through a mix of grit, brio and sheer athleticism and the inability of their opponents to find an answer to an approach which suffered from such a severe lack of aesthetic that Otto Rehhagel's men are forgotten champions just four years on. In Salzburg, it was even more difficult to think of Greece as defending European champions. Their non-qualification for the 2006 World Cup in Germany had given rise to the idea that victory in Portugal ...

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