Round of 16 | France vs Belgium | Portugal vs Slovenia

I like Portugal
I like pepe
I like Ronaldo
I like Bruno

glad they’ve gone through
 
All of these people whingeing that we should have bought Costa. :lol:

Penalty saving is barely related at all to overall keeping ability. Only need to look as far as Livakovic's performances in this tournament.
 
Shocking penalties from Slovenia. Like perfect height and position for the keeper
 
The game had 7 penalties and 4 of them were missed :wenger:
 
Considering how shit Slovenia were in attack, it’s no surprise that they couldn’t score a penalty in three attempts
 
Potugal France is a decent game. Happy Portugal made it through in the end.

Will be pretty boring. France have been incredibly underwhelming in this tournament.

Big fan of Pepe but you can't play him v Mbappe as that's asking for trouble unless Portugal drop their defensive line back another 20 yards.
 
As a neutral, I’m watching these games thinking “who’s got a United player? Lose.. and go on holiday”.

Brunos been playing non stop for about 11 months now…
Really? You want our players to lose and never get to play high pressure games? It's easy to see why our mentality at the end of games is pretty shaky.
 
All of these people whingeing that we should have bought Costa. :lol:

Penalty saving is barely related at all to overall keeping ability. Only need to look as far as Livakovic's performances in this tournament.

I'm happy with Onana, to be fair, just interesting that he was the choice of the scouting department. Costa is a top keeper though and he'll only improve.
 
Pfft no keeper is worth that much, not after one penalty shootout against bleedin Slovenia
It's more a criticism of onana than anything. I wouldn't take him again on a free based in last year. Hopefully he can turn it around
 
Portugal are gonna get thrashed by France. They have 30 more minutes of football in the legs, the Ronaldo handicap, a defensive liablity in Cancelo, and in general are made to order for them.
 
The better players should win shootouts the vast majority of times. Once Ilicic missed, there was no way back.

They played in the only way they could possibly match up with a team like Portugal and didn’t get that bit of luck.
 
I like Portugal
I like pepe
I like Ronaldo
I like Bruno

glad they’ve gone through
I like Portugal but it annoys me too much how everything is about Ronaldo, the camera is on him all the time which is why I've disliked watching them for a while. Shame the GK won't get the headlines, it'd be Ronaldo's tears on the newspapers.
 
None of the Slovenia takers tried to see where the keeper would dive. Bruno's penalty was the best, just had a quick look where Oblak's leaning and simply passed it in.
 
You play for penalties and then are dogshit at them...

Wish I had the gif of that Slovenian player pumping his fists as he knew it's going to pens. And then you serve up this shitshow.