
Of the 107 goals before Sunday's final, where France plays Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal in the tournament's 51st game, one of the best was scored in the first match. Dimitri Payet's curling, left-footed late winner for the under-pressure host nation against Romania made the West Ham winger the first darling of a tournament where expected stars barely glittered, to name just goalless German forward Thomas Mueller and his Bayern Munich teammate Robert Lewandowski.
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