By Jack Gallagher The Euro 2024 group stages surprisingly weren’t defined by Ballon d’Or candidates like Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe. They also weren’t defined by the pre-tournament favourites England and France, who laboured into the last 16 rather than spectacularly waltzing through like many had predicted they would. Instead, it was left to the likes of Georgia and Austria to steal the limelight – each country doing just that as victories over Portugal and the Netherlands helped advance them out of their respective groups. Understandably, their impressive results and perfo…