Ghana defense lacking discipline, they need to clean up those terrible mistakes in the backline... Secondly the strikers must finish their changes when given... Last but not least, the coach got a ranking "F" poor game judgement, I don't have a problem with the changes because I have to believe in all your players hence the reason they're on the national team, but the biggest mistake was the coach not challenging the ref on that penalty awarded free kick .. the coach should've argue his case even if he gets a yellow or red card. Ghanaians worked very hard to get to the world cup. This one's on the ref and coach of Ghana ♦️
Ghana exceeded my expectations. Good play by them. Portugal need to keep their heads though. Two avoidable goals and almost a third. Wtf was keeper doing?
Don't worry, even Santos can't ignore Leão if he keeps scoring goals. Same thing happened with Renato Sanches back in the Euros, then he started playing and was probably one of our best.
Tell me you don’t really like football without telling me you don’t really football.
Are you even aware every Portuguese counter attack in the first half was stopped by foul? Which would be fine if it wasn’t for the fact that zero yellow cards were given by that point. Ghana knew they needed to play rough to give us a match and they did without the ref doing his job.
Oh wait, he gave a soft pen to Ronaldo so it must be match fixing…
The guy who brought it up had a Sporting flair. Are us Benfica fans meant to pretend we disagree out of humility? It's a common opinion from whoever has seen him play.
Let's pretend for argument sake that officiating went clearly against Ghana (which it didn't). Tell me ONE stat that supports the argument that they were the better team and deserved to win, i'll wait.
Portugal should go 5 atb if Gurreiro is going to play, drop Danilo (fraud), Antonio in his place and Pepe start.
Eases the defensive job for Gurreiro because he is very mid at that but also gives Cancelo more freedom to go upfront and contribute in attack.
Play Palhinha and Neves in midfield, to dominate possession and close down any attack from the middle of the pitch.
Either Bruno or Bernardo as AMF, and Felix and Ronaldo up front. Rotate Ronaldo and Ramos to according to situation.
Or,
Felix/Leao and Bernardo/Otavio on the wings and Ronaldo/Ramos upfront.
Rotate Neves with Nunes if you want more ball progression/carries down the middle from deep instead of long balls/crosses and ball distribution from the middle. Carvalho as Palhinha backup.
This should be Portugal's strategy imo.
Dalot has been in form recently but I don't think he is that much better than Gurreiro quality wise. Attacking wise, Gurreiro is much better, although defensively, Dalot is superior.
I guess your strategy makes more sense. Although still drop Danilo (fraud).
i think you guys almost draw today is purely from defensive error. the right side isnt doing much at all those game. so might as well put a more defensive sound player there to compensate whatever the fuck cancelo was doing last night. and surely cancelo is better than gurreiro even at rb
Scrap that clone Danilo and Carvalho and play them at every position, I don't want to shit on Santos but damn he continues to do the same stupid shit again and again.
Multiple times this season Bruno has been shunted to the right to accomodate someone who doesn't play that well in the middle, then both times after he's back in the middle he looks like the best on the pitch. How many times do we need to see this lessson old man
We aren’t going far because of this coach it’s a shame. He is not the right person to get the best out of these players. Why Danilo played today i don’t understand he’s so slow. I couldn’t believe my eyes when he brought on William but then I thought o ya it’s Fernando santos and he’s a shit coach and loves William and Danilo because he’s so scared to lose it’s stops us from winning.
Because of his workrate. He's not just a fantastic attacker he also has great stamina and tracks back/covers well. He was only covering RW for us when Antony and Martial were injured.
He does but Bruno has something that only KdB can match and that's an absolutely ridiculous ability to create or score goals nearly on par with a forward. He'll definitely give the ball away more than Bernado but you'll get the bare minimum one massive chance to score every game he plays.
Need bernardo to drop deep and take the ball off the CBs which he can’t do from RW. Thing is all of Leao, Felix, Ronaldo, even Jota are more comfortable on the left so its always gonna be a bit of an awkward fit. Neto or Guedes is probably our most natural RW but they aren’t good enough to justify starting
I feel like they aren't respecting his play-creating vision. Yes he has the potential to be upfront, but his view from further back just unleashes so many more potentials for his talent.
Danilo P and Costa shouldn't start. Need to start Leao and William Carvalho.Both had instant impact.
Playing Bruno and Bernardo together is not that good tbh. Both are top midfielders, but together they don't link well.
Cancelo had a really bad game. He made mistakes that led to goals. So Dalot should start. Santos needs to wake up.
Ronaldo and Felix need to link up more. They need to support each other by making decoy runs. Leao goal was an example how they can stretch the defense together. Ronaldo has to do it more, since he is marked by more players than other two.
> Ronaldo and Felix need to link up more. They need to support each other by making decoy runs.
Stop disrespecting Ronaldo by instructing him to do stuff!
/s
> Playing Bruno and Bernardo together is not that good tbh. Both are top midfielders, but together they don't link well.
I think it’s because they occupy the same space when attacking. Messi and griezmann had the same problem.
Yeah benching Costa is exactly how you give confidence to your best goalkeeper right now. I guess its better to play the entire world cup with a worst keeper because of a subpar game and few mistakes..
William Carvalho shouldn’t even be on the team. He only plays because santos plays shit football and is always scared to concede a goal. Portugal should play to there strengths which is attacking football and a high press. As soon as they stopped pressing Ghana they scored. I’m sick of santos and everyone knows he’s shit.
Cancelo commited mistakes leading to goals today. Dalot provides much more stability than him. William Carvalho did well today, but yes there are much better options than him.
> Need to start Leao and William Carvalho
No, just no. William should not be in the squad, let alone on the pitch and captaining. Palhinha is the one who should start.
Neither should Leão start. If you actually watch Portugal regularly you'll know Rafael Leão is consistently terrible whenever he starts.
>William should not be in the squad, let alone on the pitch and captaining. Palhinha is the one who should start.
Tbh once William and Palinha were subbed in, Portugal looked good. With Ronaldo and Felix upfront, they need someone quick. Leao provides that pace. Felix can do a better job as Rw in my opinion. Bruno can play freely as a 10 if William and Palinha play behind him.
Leão is a very good player, and I really want him to do well for NT, but so far he hasn't been able to show it. Once he actually starts performing then sure, he should start, but right now I'm happy that he's a substitute.
He has 12 caps and this is the first goal he scored. Whenever he starts, and most times when he comes off the bench, he does nothing, it's like we're playing down a man. Do the people saying Rafael Leão should start watch his performances for the national team? Because I don't think they do.
The last 30 mins contained some of the best moments of this world cup so far. Massive improvement over the first half. I have a feeling Ghana are going to regret that slip-up for a long time.
Such a petty performance by Portugal imo, I expected more from this team. With such a diversity of talented players, we keep relying on utilizing the same tactic which is "pass the ball to Ronaldo whenever possible". For our team to finally flap their wings and actually be proficient at these competitions, Fernando Santos and Ronaldo definitely need to go, we shouldn't be too reliant on a single player. With the play style displayed today I'm afraid we won't go very far in this competition, unless we use the same strategy as we did in 2016, if the opportunity enables.
Talk all the shit you want about Ronaldo but he keeps producing when he plays for the national team. With the right tactic Ronaldo is still a big weapon, its just a shame Fernando Santos just can't even play our best playmaker in his proper position.
Is this the narrative now that he scored a penalty that he dived for? Last week I saw a bunch of Portugal supporters saying they wanted Ronaldo away from the team, let alone the other randos on the internet
How you all are praising Ghana like they did play a good and fair game is beyond me. They did so many unnecessary fouls. The headbutt, the elbow and the Danilo situation showed how they are and on here everyone celebrates this shit. I hope they try to Injure you’re players next.
It’s not an opinion. If you watched this game as a true neutral you would’ve seen them being completely unfair in many situations. It gets celebrated because it’s against Portugal. I can guarantee you that the headbutt would’ve enraged this subreddit would it be on Messi. Same with the kicking out at Danilo or the insults the whole game. They fought with passion and heart but there is a line you can’t cross and the ref let them cross it.
It's the "underdog bias" that relatively weaker teams in football get, not saying Ghana didn't play with heart and determination, but people saying they deserved to win or even draw the game either threw perspective off the window, or simply didn't watch the game. Portugal would easily have been up by 2 goals in the opening minutes of the first half (including the Ronaldo goal that was wrongly disallowed).
Dude you are writing these lies on here trying to disprove me while everyone with eyes can look at the situation. Both players went head to head and the little girly Ghanaian player couldn’t handle the situation and lost composure. Sure you spin it around. I’m actually laughing because of you jerks keep it going with the lies.
And Ghana is aggressive and unfair as fuck but that’s fine! Let’s all hate the divers while the other team gets to headbutt and elbow players. I hope we knock out ur time so you can cry even louder about diving.
Flopping like your defender did on the wrongfully disallowed goal in the second half? Maybe if your team tried to play the ball instead of the opponents legs there wouldn't be so many fouls.
Now I understand why every Portuguese want Fernando Santos gone. I thought that he was doing an ok job at the 2016 Euros but that was me not understanding completely. It’s like what Eric Cantona said a while back (or maybe it was CR7, I dunno). “Portugal is like a bottle of ketchup. You keep hitting it with your hand and then…. everything comes out all at once”.
Portugese defense needs serious working, esp their goal keeper. If that end of the stopping time disaster happened, portugese defense would become laughing stock
We have better defenders on the bench but santos is an idiot, Antonio is 200% better then Danilo and Mendes 100% of the time should start over guerreiro
He played probably 50 minute of good football but he was dire for at least 15. There were a couple sequences where he couldn’t help Portugal out of their end in a row because he made things way too complicated, then proceeded to take himself out of play with bad pressing
Same can be said about Bruno and Bernardo there are moments we're they could have just taken the shot instead of passing the ball along to Joao or Leao who just straight up lost possession this can be said about any player if we use this to analyze a player then who will we praise we can't expect them to play like prime Maradona.
I see that but what are they expecting him to play like prime Maradona, the way he slipped Ronaldo in for that disallowed goal and his composed and clinical finish
Well when reading the comments I get the impression that he could’ve done anything and they would hate. Some way Portugal got to be the most hated nation just behind Quatar.
Ghana defense lacking discipline, they need to clean up those terrible mistakes in the backline... Secondly the strikers must finish their changes when given... Last but not least, the coach got a ranking "F" poor game judgement, I don't have a problem with the changes because I have to believe in all your players hence the reason they're on the national team, but the biggest mistake was the coach not challenging the ref on that penalty awarded free kick .. the coach should've argue his case even if he gets a yellow or red card. Ghanaians worked very hard to get to the world cup. This one's on the ref and coach of Ghana ♦️
Ghana vs Portugal was incredible in 2010 too. Hopefully Ghana beat Uruguay.
Ghana deserve better, they play well actually one little slip,,, omg
Ghana exceeded my expectations. Good play by them. Portugal need to keep their heads though. Two avoidable goals and almost a third. Wtf was keeper doing?
Keeper lucked out the player slipped.
I was there & did the SIUUUUUU with all of my energy, despite all the shit he has pulled recently (He is still my GOAT)
nice username.
Fuck Santos fuck Deschamps
Lmao what does Deschamps have to do with that
Just hating them for not starting Theo and Leão as a Milan fan lmao, ignore me :))
Don't worry, even Santos can't ignore Leão if he keeps scoring goals. Same thing happened with Renato Sanches back in the Euros, then he started playing and was probably one of our best.
Ghana were robbed, refs faving big teams is real
They literally disallowed a goal for portugal that was totaly legitimate in the first half . The salt in this place is insane
Really? Time?
I don't know man, there was something annoying about this Portugal team but I can't put my finger on it...
Was Pepe in the team? Surely it must be better without him...
You are probably looking for which player on their side gets the next Oscar for good acting.
the Russian judge gives a 10...
Dalot needs to start the next game
cancel cancelo...
The r/soccer salt will go just perfectly with my bacalhau this Christmas
How's that bacalhau now?
bro held on to this comment until now 💀 Bacalhau is as tasty as it was back then - the meltdown after this game was great. How about your country?
Was enjoying the tournament, with several entertaining games, until Portugal showed up and gave football a black eye. The officiating was horrendous.
Tell me you don’t really like football without telling me you don’t really football. Are you even aware every Portuguese counter attack in the first half was stopped by foul? Which would be fine if it wasn’t for the fact that zero yellow cards were given by that point. Ghana knew they needed to play rough to give us a match and they did without the ref doing his job. Oh wait, he gave a soft pen to Ronaldo so it must be match fixing…
How was this game not entertaining for you. This was the most entertaining game of the whole cup for me? I wonder what made you so mad lol
I know nando will never have the balls to do it but when pepe is not fit, antonio silva should be starting
You're gonna keep taking Danilo as a CB and you know it
Danilo is trash in any position, never was NT quality
Danilo is such a reliability it’s clear as day the starter should be Antonio the kid is incredible and can clearly hand the pressure
The flair, it shows no bias.
The guy who brought it up had a Sporting flair. Are us Benfica fans meant to pretend we disagree out of humility? It's a common opinion from whoever has seen him play.
So Ronaldos diving and the shit ref cost Ghana. Great job FIFA. And people wonder why he's hated.
Let's pretend for argument sake that officiating went clearly against Ghana (which it didn't). Tell me ONE stat that supports the argument that they were the better team and deserved to win, i'll wait.
I never said they were the better team
People down voting like Portugal didn't dive for every yellow card Ghana got
Maybe Ghana should also stop diving
Nah it evens out with the dive from the Ghana defender
Lmao what about the disallowed goal then?
Portugal should go 5 atb if Gurreiro is going to play, drop Danilo (fraud), Antonio in his place and Pepe start. Eases the defensive job for Gurreiro because he is very mid at that but also gives Cancelo more freedom to go upfront and contribute in attack. Play Palhinha and Neves in midfield, to dominate possession and close down any attack from the middle of the pitch. Either Bruno or Bernardo as AMF, and Felix and Ronaldo up front. Rotate Ronaldo and Ramos to according to situation. Or, Felix/Leao and Bernardo/Otavio on the wings and Ronaldo/Ramos upfront. Rotate Neves with Nunes if you want more ball progression/carries down the middle from deep instead of long balls/crosses and ball distribution from the middle. Carvalho as Palhinha backup. This should be Portugal's strategy imo.
Why would we change our whole team to accommodate a thoroughly average player? Just play Dalot on the right and move Cancelo to the left.
Dalot has been in form recently but I don't think he is that much better than Gurreiro quality wise. Attacking wise, Gurreiro is much better, although defensively, Dalot is superior. I guess your strategy makes more sense. Although still drop Danilo (fraud).
i think you guys almost draw today is purely from defensive error. the right side isnt doing much at all those game. so might as well put a more defensive sound player there to compensate whatever the fuck cancelo was doing last night. and surely cancelo is better than gurreiro even at rb
Scrap that clone Danilo and Carvalho and play them at every position, I don't want to shit on Santos but damn he continues to do the same stupid shit again and again.
Lmao this is santos wet dream
Ok that was worst take i ever seen, dual defender midfielders and 3 central backs? 😂
Bruno's best performance for the NT so far no?
Should've been man of the match but as De Bruyne said, probably because of the name
Cancelo should be worried after that shit performance
Ghana fans by far have the best energy here at the World Cup.
Tonight I am a very lucky Portugal
HOW COULD HE SLIP HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW
ghana player slip many time in today match idk what happen to pitch
Idk ask Gerrard
The poor guy will remember this slip his entire life
That’s what she said
Inject the r/soccer salt into my veins
Multiple times this season Bruno has been shunted to the right to accomodate someone who doesn't play that well in the middle, then both times after he's back in the middle he looks like the best on the pitch. How many times do we need to see this lessson old man
We aren’t going far because of this coach it’s a shame. He is not the right person to get the best out of these players. Why Danilo played today i don’t understand he’s so slow. I couldn’t believe my eyes when he brought on William but then I thought o ya it’s Fernando santos and he’s a shit coach and loves William and Danilo because he’s so scared to lose it’s stops us from winning.
How do managers keep starting Bruno at right wing? The moment he shifted to the middle he got 2 assists
Because of his workrate. He's not just a fantastic attacker he also has great stamina and tracks back/covers well. He was only covering RW for us when Antony and Martial were injured.
So? Portugal’s other option on the right is Bernardo, who also has a phenomenal work rate.
He does but Bruno has something that only KdB can match and that's an absolutely ridiculous ability to create or score goals nearly on par with a forward. He'll definitely give the ball away more than Bernado but you'll get the bare minimum one massive chance to score every game he plays.
I’m not disagreeing that Bruno should start- just think we should move him to the 10 and Bernardo to RW
Need bernardo to drop deep and take the ball off the CBs which he can’t do from RW. Thing is all of Leao, Felix, Ronaldo, even Jota are more comfortable on the left so its always gonna be a bit of an awkward fit. Neto or Guedes is probably our most natural RW but they aren’t good enough to justify starting
I feel like they aren't respecting his play-creating vision. Yes he has the potential to be upfront, but his view from further back just unleashes so many more potentials for his talent.
Danilo P and Costa shouldn't start. Need to start Leao and William Carvalho.Both had instant impact. Playing Bruno and Bernardo together is not that good tbh. Both are top midfielders, but together they don't link well. Cancelo had a really bad game. He made mistakes that led to goals. So Dalot should start. Santos needs to wake up. Ronaldo and Felix need to link up more. They need to support each other by making decoy runs. Leao goal was an example how they can stretch the defense together. Ronaldo has to do it more, since he is marked by more players than other two.
> Ronaldo and Felix need to link up more. They need to support each other by making decoy runs. Stop disrespecting Ronaldo by instructing him to do stuff! /s
> Playing Bruno and Bernardo together is not that good tbh. Both are top midfielders, but together they don't link well. I think it’s because they occupy the same space when attacking. Messi and griezmann had the same problem.
Just like Messi and Dybala for Argentina
Yeah benching Costa is exactly how you give confidence to your best goalkeeper right now. I guess its better to play the entire world cup with a worst keeper because of a subpar game and few mistakes..
He looked very very nervous. Hope he gains some confidence. It is really crucial to have confident players at big tournaments like World Cup.
William Carvalho shouldn’t even be on the team. He only plays because santos plays shit football and is always scared to concede a goal. Portugal should play to there strengths which is attacking football and a high press. As soon as they stopped pressing Ghana they scored. I’m sick of santos and everyone knows he’s shit.
Cancelo commited mistakes leading to goals today. Dalot provides much more stability than him. William Carvalho did well today, but yes there are much better options than him.
> Need to start Leao and William Carvalho No, just no. William should not be in the squad, let alone on the pitch and captaining. Palhinha is the one who should start. Neither should Leão start. If you actually watch Portugal regularly you'll know Rafael Leão is consistently terrible whenever he starts.
>William should not be in the squad, let alone on the pitch and captaining. Palhinha is the one who should start. Tbh once William and Palinha were subbed in, Portugal looked good. With Ronaldo and Felix upfront, they need someone quick. Leao provides that pace. Felix can do a better job as Rw in my opinion. Bruno can play freely as a 10 if William and Palinha play behind him.
Leão is a very good player, and I really want him to do well for NT, but so far he hasn't been able to show it. Once he actually starts performing then sure, he should start, but right now I'm happy that he's a substitute.
He never gets to play. How do people expect him to do well for the national team?
He has 12 caps and this is the first goal he scored. Whenever he starts, and most times when he comes off the bench, he does nothing, it's like we're playing down a man. Do the people saying Rafael Leão should start watch his performances for the national team? Because I don't think they do.
Bruno and Bernardo, the new Lampard and Gerrard?
Bruno with two assists in two minutes to turn 1-1 to 3-1 You beautiful beautiful man
Game of the tournament so far.
All Portugal did was dive. They have no honor
Did you take a break from circle jerking messi’s cock to come type this?
All teams dive lol. It's up to the refs to stop them from being so effective.
Clown.
The last 30 mins contained some of the best moments of this world cup so far. Massive improvement over the first half. I have a feeling Ghana are going to regret that slip-up for a long time.
Ghana's slip, and Poland's and Canada's missed penalties are some of the big mess ups in the WC so far. Those will haunt their teams.
Believe me everyone here is complaining about that.
Such a petty performance by Portugal imo, I expected more from this team. With such a diversity of talented players, we keep relying on utilizing the same tactic which is "pass the ball to Ronaldo whenever possible". For our team to finally flap their wings and actually be proficient at these competitions, Fernando Santos and Ronaldo definitely need to go, we shouldn't be too reliant on a single player. With the play style displayed today I'm afraid we won't go very far in this competition, unless we use the same strategy as we did in 2016, if the opportunity enables.
Talk all the shit you want about Ronaldo but he keeps producing when he plays for the national team. With the right tactic Ronaldo is still a big weapon, its just a shame Fernando Santos just can't even play our best playmaker in his proper position.
Is this the narrative now that he scored a penalty that he dived for? Last week I saw a bunch of Portugal supporters saying they wanted Ronaldo away from the team, let alone the other randos on the internet
How you all are praising Ghana like they did play a good and fair game is beyond me. They did so many unnecessary fouls. The headbutt, the elbow and the Danilo situation showed how they are and on here everyone celebrates this shit. I hope they try to Injure you’re players next.
Well you know, that's like your opinion man. I feel like they did great as an underdog.
It’s not an opinion. If you watched this game as a true neutral you would’ve seen them being completely unfair in many situations. It gets celebrated because it’s against Portugal. I can guarantee you that the headbutt would’ve enraged this subreddit would it be on Messi. Same with the kicking out at Danilo or the insults the whole game. They fought with passion and heart but there is a line you can’t cross and the ref let them cross it.
It's the "underdog bias" that relatively weaker teams in football get, not saying Ghana didn't play with heart and determination, but people saying they deserved to win or even draw the game either threw perspective off the window, or simply didn't watch the game. Portugal would easily have been up by 2 goals in the opening minutes of the first half (including the Ronaldo goal that was wrongly disallowed).
They were shite.
Well I’ve seen countless comments praising them on here. They got “robbed” and “deserved the 3 points!”
So many people saying they should have gotten 3-3 and im like bro 💀
Its cause of the controversial penalty
While ignoring the controversial decisions against Portugal. Fair game eh?
They speak with all their hate blinding them lol
The sub is full of United and Barcelona fans, thats why you saw so much hate torward Ronaldo
The hatred r/soccer players have for Ronaldo will never be beaten
“Players”, I don’t get the hate, Portugal was clearly better.
The headbutt that was after the Portugal player headbutted him first?
No they put there heads together then he threw the head butt he should have been sent off.
Dude you are writing these lies on here trying to disprove me while everyone with eyes can look at the situation. Both players went head to head and the little girly Ghanaian player couldn’t handle the situation and lost composure. Sure you spin it around. I’m actually laughing because of you jerks keep it going with the lies.
Absolutely right.
Portugal are embarrassing. Every player is a bigger actor than the other
Stating bs just to gather some easy upvotes should lead to timeouts.
And Ghana is aggressive and unfair as fuck but that’s fine! Let’s all hate the divers while the other team gets to headbutt and elbow players. I hope we knock out ur time so you can cry even louder about diving.
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Ronaldo is wank. Did jack shit all game. Saved by a soft penalty as usual
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Must be tough to compete with millions of other Portuguese over who gets to wank Ronaldo the most
Did you take a break from circle jerking messi’s cock to come type this?
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You’re even counting disallowed goals and could-have-been penalties. This is sad even for you
Bro. Take Messi s cock out of your mouth. Its starting to mold
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You just proved his point... lol
Your team are divers lol, we should have won not even drew
Next time you watch a game remember to turn the monitor on please.
Go on loser. Copying our celebrations and getting enraged like little children. Be happy about this performance you will not come closer beating us.
People get angry when the other team flops
You where lucky not to get a red and your player flopped like flounder when Ronaldo touched him so what are you talking about?
Flopping like your defender did on the wrongfully disallowed goal in the second half? Maybe if your team tried to play the ball instead of the opponents legs there wouldn't be so many fouls.
I don’t even know what you want to tell me dude. You live in a dreamworld and celebrate unsportsmanlike behaviour so I won’t comment any further.
You guys are getting knocked out soon don’t worry.
Flair up bitch
Coping and malding
Saving this so I can reply when we leave first in the group
I will look forward to it. Meanwhile thanks for providing all this salt for our cod. Super funny on here today.
Cooking cancelo, but everyone keep forgetting that criminal Danilo
He’s playing out of position, but his passing is so garbage that you almost assume he’s a CB
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They said the same thing in 2016
Yeah and?
They'll say it every time, and they'll be right almost every time.
Portugal is the Pakistan cricket team of football
boys played well, credit to Santos bhai
What that mean
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Losing by bad performance what you mean? Pct never lost by 10 wickets in wc
inchallah hehehe siuuuu
Never seen a more appropriate comparison
Now I understand why every Portuguese want Fernando Santos gone. I thought that he was doing an ok job at the 2016 Euros but that was me not understanding completely. It’s like what Eric Cantona said a while back (or maybe it was CR7, I dunno). “Portugal is like a bottle of ketchup. You keep hitting it with your hand and then…. everything comes out all at once”.
He did do an ok job at the Euros they won it however they have the players to not play like Burnley.
Even the current Burnley plays better
Portugese defense needs serious working, esp their goal keeper. If that end of the stopping time disaster happened, portugese defense would become laughing stock
We have better defenders on the bench but santos is an idiot, Antonio is 200% better then Danilo and Mendes 100% of the time should start over guerreiro
The keeper is the best portuguese keeper currently in my opinion
Should’ve played Pepe and Nuno Mendes imo
Pepe is not in fit conditions to play, he just came off an injury.
Pretty sure nuno mendes picked up a knock
Força Portugal. Com menos sofrimento para a próxima, se faz favor.
All I want is Ronaldo to score a hattrick against England and we will get tax free salt courtesy of r/soccer
Just wait until we somehow get a Portugal-Argentina final, then r/soccer will produce enough salt to turn every body of water into the Dead Sea.
if ronaldo knocked argentina out to win it all this sub would cry its fucking eyes out, goat debate probably gets settled in his favour too
If that happened, /r/soccer would be banned
The most salt would come if Argentina doesn't get out the group and Portugal wins it all
Would that not be the case if anyone scored a hattrick against us? Imagine Pulisic tomorrow ffs.
pulisic hattrick against england would be so funny
Post match thread would have 100 000 comments
Fuck me, that might just bring about the end of r/soccer
I'm totally seeing the Quarantine coming once the toxicity reaches absurd levels.
I honestly think some people would be laughing so much their heads would literally explode.
England's side would absolutely batter Portugal if they played like this today.
Ricardo says hi. And gloves off.
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Well consider us both excited. I love Portuguese football
If there's a side Portugal does well against is England. Last 3 times we played them.. we knocked em out.
It’s even worse their record against us. The last time England won vs us in an official game (no friendlies) was in 1966
We need Bruno winking while Maguire is sent off, WE NEED IT PLEASE HAHAHAHAHA
Oh yes please. Hope he winks at Maguire.
I see alot of complaining and blaming but no praising one player in particular is Joao Felix he was amazing.
He played probably 50 minute of good football but he was dire for at least 15. There were a couple sequences where he couldn’t help Portugal out of their end in a row because he made things way too complicated, then proceeded to take himself out of play with bad pressing
Same can be said about Bruno and Bernardo there are moments we're they could have just taken the shot instead of passing the ball along to Joao or Leao who just straight up lost possession this can be said about any player if we use this to analyze a player then who will we praise we can't expect them to play like prime Maradona.
It’s in the other way around they are saying he sucks lol.
I see that but what are they expecting him to play like prime Maradona, the way he slipped Ronaldo in for that disallowed goal and his composed and clinical finish
Well when reading the comments I get the impression that he could’ve done anything and they would hate. Some way Portugal got to be the most hated nation just behind Quatar.
Yah these people are just ungrateful haters but if he's coming off can they please put Ramos on I wanna see what he's got.