It must be strange for Norway to have two of the absolute superstars of world football, and simultaneously not having played at a major tournament for almost a quarter century.
Internationals March/June (Euro Play-Offs + Friendlies)
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The Portugal vs Croatia match is a great watch. Both teams impressive.
Leao is a top player. He is true 100 mil player.
Croatia are so jammy. Might lump some on them to get to the semis at least. Slow international football suits their golden oldies to a tee.
I must admit that I like Morten Hjulmann better and better and I have underestimated him. I'm starting to see why he has been linked with United several times.
Pass the ball sideways and backwards until the clock runs down to penalties.
No sign of Ronaldo yet!
He's been quality for the minutes he has played in these friendlies. Not sure he is ready for such a big move, but he could definitely move on from Sporting soon.
We are just playing to our strengths
.Yeah, it's strange, if he's in the squad and you're losing, surely you throw him on for at least 5 or 10. He's making a statement by not doing it. Not sure Ronaldo has the temperament to accept it.
Martinez is about two years away from looking like Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.
Why didn’t Portugal bring Ronaldo on? Need a goal and leave him on bench
Because he's about 50.
Like England yesterday, Portugal losing their final warm up game to a European powerhouse.
Steroid-Boy scores out of nothing.
This is such a typical Haaland game. Anonymous the entire game and then pop up with a goal
Mitrovic with a bizarre goal
I have no idea why that was disallowed by VAR, but I like it.
Oh no he hasn't.
A 50 year old that can still bang in goals for the fun of it
Why’s their VAR for friendlys?
I think the fella who was deemed offside was blocking someone off.
Strange comment
Yeah I really like Croatia. The only reason they can do that is the immense technical ability in midfield that allows them to retain possession (as you said). It’s an incredible way in which they continuously punch above their weight.We are just playing to our strengths
Yes. Just like our «goal» at Fulham when Maguire was offside. Ridiculous then, ridiculous now.
Disallow that one you shite quota ref
Great pass by Odegaard.
Quality pass from Ødegaard.
He has scored now.
I don’t have a problem with a rule that says if you’re offside you can’t then block someone who’s attempting to defend the eventual goal scorer.
We put on the pensioners and suddenly we are under huge pressure. Go figure.
Portugal have a really good squad , the thing that stops me tipping them is that it seems to me that all the wins since the loss to morocco seem to be against the lower level nations .
That’s only because you haven’t been on the wrong end of such decision yet
I’m just saying just on the face of it, I don’t have a problem with it. It could definitely be applied incorrectly, so I’d take them on a case by case basis. I’m not even sure there was much of a foul in this instance. Definitely very soft but just as a rule, I think it’s ok.Eriksen being one of the pensioners now is so wild. It was just the other day he was one of the golden boys of European football. I’m getting old man.
It is whole team in fact. Every defender is good on the ball. When you add that one winger is always a midfielder (Vlasic, Majer, Pasalic), another is Perisic and striker is Petkovic (poor man's Berbatov) you get 10 players who are strong on the ball. Then what will you do? Keep the ball, of course.
And the guy is still only 32 years old. Some players are in their prime at that age, while others are washed.
Norway gifting Denmark a third to close the game.
Denmark win 2-0 against Sweden and 3-1 against Norway. Denmark will certainly not win the European Championship, but they are still the best in Scandinavia.