Day 5: Germany vs. Portugal

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What happened?

With about 6 overs left, England smashed 3 wickets down to the point where they needed 1 wicket from 5 balls - 2nd to last ball the Umpire gave LBW, only for the review to show the batsmen just got a nick on the ball. Ended in a draw.
 
Brilliant skill from nani right there. He hasn't been too bad today, a few dodgy decisions aside. Basically played in midfield.
 
Nani really is a bit shit, isn't he? The less we play him, the less his reputation takes a beating. Let's move him on this summer.
 
Ronaldo Portugal's MoM because of that FK he got on target at the end. Quality. Such a great team player.
 
With about 6 overs left, England smashed 3 wickets down to the point where they needed 1 wicket from 5 balls - 2nd to last ball the Umpire gave LBW, only for the review to show the batsmen just got a nick on the ball. Ended in a draw.

Thanks. That's one of the bad things about living abroad. No cricket coverage.
 
iran v Nigeria anyone? think i might give that one a miss... meanwhile Germany were my bet to win it - on the grounds that they havent done so for a while!
 
feck me, think I made 8 or 9 bets on this game, won them all.
 
iran v Nigeria anyone? think i might give that one a miss... meanwhile Germany were my bet to win it - on the grounds that they havent done so for a while!

It'll be the first game of the tournament that I don't watch the full game of - have to go play football.

Should catch the second half though.
 
Shocking performance from Portugal. Germany aren't even that good. It's just you can't have so many shite players on a side with Ronaldo.
 
This doesn't surprise me. Apart from Ronaldo, Portugal lack quality. Unless Ronaldo has a stormer, most good teams will beat Portugal I feel.
 
That's it

Germany demolished Portugal :lol:

Portugal need to do a ton of work to beat USA, not to mention Ghana.

Ronaldo to his credit kept working, but it doesn't look like his World Cup to grab it by the scruff of the neck as we say in England, maybe Russia 2018? but there's still time.

Portugal's biggest flaw is they rely on Ronaldo too much, and long term it will cost them, it's unhealthy, they need to build a team - perhaps when he retires they will adopt the German approach.
 
The SAMSUNG ad is the jinx this time. Everyone that's played so far and has appeared in it has been pretty shit.
 
Portugal have barely integrated any of their younger players for the past some time now despite being poor in the same period and underachieving consistently.

It's weird and they should take a cue from Holland on this.
 
People really doing a huge disservice to quality players like Moutinho, Nani, Coentrao and Miereles who are all top players capable of playing to a very high level, in in some sort of weird attempt to protect Ronaldo. He sucked every bit as much as his team mates today.
 
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