Compare this to Slovenia and Croatia who gave most of their minutes to five or six players. This will only get you so far and when it comes to the latter stages in these tournaments, or even just at the end of a game, the players are inevitably fatigued. This costs through a lack of intensity and bad decision-making. Croatia should have learned their lesson in EURO 2012 when at the end of the tournament they looked like a very poor imitation of the team that started the competition. You may argue that they are forced to do this because they don't have the quality in depth of the best nations but I would disagree.