Portugal and Brazil qualified. Today was a good day
Day 9: Cameroon vs Serbia | South Korea vs Ghana | Brazil vs Switzerland | Portugal vs Uruguay
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The sad thing is he is rightfully the greatest coach in our history.
Though personally under Scolari was the most competitive we have been imo.
Actually, after the peno was given I was looking out for Ronaldo and instead they showed Santos on the bench sort of hiding his face. Make of that what you will but it looked like a guy that just got great news yet was thinking everything is about to fall apart
It may just be a wrong read but it ain't my problem either way so
Portugal would be way better without Ronaldo. He is not a striker. He looks so lost out there sometime. His positioning is terrible. More than not he was playing left wing. And claiming that goal. That was typical of Ronaldo. More interested in himself then what his team mates give. And that is the biggest problem with Ronaldo. He is not a team player.
I wish I was Portuguese and/or Brazilian
He got called up once by Spain in believe in 2016. He was never be going to be called up again, he is 28 years and his only chance to play at the world cup.
Ronaldo's cicle will only end in the Euro 2024 I think we will see the team growing without him in the qualifiers but he will still be around till the Euro.
That's funny. Why?
I mean, statistically he is, but it was also, no disrespect to your nation, a fluke final in 2016.
No I do agree. He chooses to play Ronaldo, so he's obviously the problem.
Irish
100%
Well next year in the rugby world cup I'll wish I was irish
Ya THATS the problem, hell I wish that was the problem
Yeah, but rugby is shit
Serves him right for diving in scissor-style rather than staying on his feet to block what he thought was a shot. He didn’t have the angle for that kind of tackle.
Good man. Casemiro got it too. Utd ruling the WC obviously.
Maybe he have problems to learn portuguese.
So, did Ronaldo just spend a few minutes celebrating a goal he knew he did not score? Bruno continues to deliver for Portugal. Big performances by the United players today.
Uruguay deserved nothing from the game, they only started playing after going 1-0 down. Well done to Bruno, almost got a hat-trick, already has 2 assists from Ghana game, great tournament so far for him.
Ronaldo is playing better so far in WC than he did for us this season. Not saying his being great but doing okay. Think he could score couple more at this tournament, or at least another 1 anyways, from open play this time.
Pellistri was very good and glad for him.
Ronaldo is playing better so far in WC than he did for us this season. Not saying his being great but doing okay. Think he could score couple more at this tournament, or at least another 1 anyways, from open play this time.
Pellistri was very good and glad for him.
To be fair to Ronnie it did skim along his hair so would have felt some sort of contact.
In the Euro final when the back-stabber went off injured Portugal had to resort to Plan B. It meant that they had to play like a team, sharing the ball, rather than feeding the ego. Immediately their game improved.
Look at the pictures there is clear daylight between CR37 and the ball.
You can see daylight.
The other angle shows it better but you can see the gap there as well.
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I don't follow SPurs. But is Bentancur always this good? Or is it because playing for NT, like some players do? @antohan
And Pellistri was so rapid and skillful. He couldn't be worse than Elanga or Bruno as RW.
And Pellistri was so rapid and skillful. He couldn't be worse than Elanga or Bruno as RW.
Bentancur has always been a good all-round CM. I was staggered Juve let him go to Spurs for peanuts, let alone that they had a free go at him when our midfield was clearly all over the shop.
Most on here insisted he was average, but he seems to be doing just fine for them. Got a brace in the last game. While everyone played half-arsed thinking about injuries, he was busting a gut for Spurs as much as he was doing today.
Yeah typo. Should have been 27/35.
He finished on 74% though.
Thought Ronaldo would have to go some to make a bigger tit of himself then he already has, but running round celebrating scoring a goal he didn't actually score was an admirable effort.
To be fair i can imagine other strikers doing the same thing, but he committed to it so fully it just came across as desperate.
Hoping Fernandes carries on doing well, partly because good on him, and partly because from a purely bitter point of view, it would be hilarious if in his last World Cup for Portugal, Ronaldo was overshadowed by a Man Utd player. Even more so when come January he can't find a club of similar stature that won't sit him on the bench even more than Ten Hag did.
To be fair i can imagine other strikers doing the same thing, but he committed to it so fully it just came across as desperate.
Hoping Fernandes carries on doing well, partly because good on him, and partly because from a purely bitter point of view, it would be hilarious if in his last World Cup for Portugal, Ronaldo was overshadowed by a Man Utd player. Even more so when come January he can't find a club of similar stature that won't sit him on the bench even more than Ten Hag did.
Yeah fully expecting that to happen
Yeah perhaps we are better off finishing second
Now what happens when they get a penalty again? Who takes it?
Yeah he looks more assured without him