After sitting through 120 minutes of shambolically terrible football, the least viewers deserved was the spectacle of penalties.
We did not even get that. Ricardo Quaresma's 116th minute tap-in gave Portugal a 1-0 win and denied us spot kicks.
In terms of dullness, it even outstripped the five o'clock kick-off between Northern Ireland and Wales, a game of just about bearable mundanity.
1 - #WAL are the first team to win a match in the KO stages of the Euros with just 1 shot on target since Greece in the 2004 final. Minimal.
— OptaJohan (@OptaJohan) June 25, 2016
A measure of how excruciating a last-16 match it was between the fancied Croats and the underperforming Portuguese was that it set an unwanted record.
0 - #CROPOR is the first Major Tournaments game without a shot on target in the 90 minutes since 1980. Sleep.
— OptaPaolo 🏆 (@OptaPaolo) June 25, 2016
Of course, you wait 116 minutes for a shot on target and then two arrive at virtually the same time.
1 - There was one second between the first shot on target (116:08) and the last shot on target (116:09) of #POR v #CRO. Blink.
— OptaJohan (@OptaJohan) June 25, 2016
On Dutch TV, they had an accurate depiction of fan reaction around Europe.
...meanwhile, back in the studio (Dutch TV) after Croatia vs Portugal. #CROPOR❌ #EURO2016 pic.twitter.com/sZJlapO9nx
— Chef (@champ_ian) June 25, 2016
