Ah, seems this time we won't be able to defeat England again. I believe Croatia was damn strong and is a good candidate, maybe the golden times of Croatia came once more. But from there to keep the 'creator of football' away from the Europeans is too damn radical.
Any team nowadays have the chance to win, happened to Greece last Euro...defeating us with counter-attacks and thick defense...good for them with their effectiveness, but sure we were out of luck, so many attacks and we couldn't score enough.
As Scolari said, Any team in the euro is strong enough, even the ones there are there for the first time, they have prooven their value for qualifying to it, so why aren't they as strong as others?
So..what's happening to modern football? Good players aren't enough against the best tactics? What do you need, a good couch and that's it?