Great game of football and a great performance.
We completely dominated this match, Turkey never tried to attack, simply defended and looked to hit us on counterattacks, but the defence was really solid. Carvalho was flawless as usual, Bosingwa was superb running down the right side, Ferreira was solid and Pepe was great. Super man is back!
The midfield was really good, Petit was clearing everything in front of the defence, Moutinho was great with his running all around the field and was brilliant tactically, and then Deco pulling the strings in midfield, he made some amazing passes.
The attack was good, for the first time in my life, I'll praise Nuno Gomes. I thought he had a good game, still can't score to save his life, but his movement was good and he is really important on those one-two's, one of which lead to Pepe's goal. Simao never got passed Hamit in the first-half and was a bit quiet in the second-half, our most disappointing player I thought.. Ronaldo played well, nothing spectacular about his performance, but did his job. That free-kick would have been a fantastic goal. He continues to be really selfish though, should learn how to pass the ball more often.
Disappointed not to see Quaresma playing.. I'm hoping he gets some playing time against the Czechs.
The second goal was the best for me, great team play and good to see a Porto player scoring, even though I don't really like Meireles.
Great start for us, like Scolari said, 50% of the work is done. Bring on the Czechs!
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A wise man once said:
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Try this out. When she is about to say yes or no, pull back and say, "nah, I change my mind" and sort of walk away.
See what she does then. You will have basically turned the tables on her. Tried this a few times, always works.
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"Well, that was fun... in a fuckin' terrible, sick, not-at-all-fun way."
Ricardo Quaresma: forever a Porto legend. Thank you for all the memories.
Last edited by Oliver_Kahn : 08-06-2008 at 01:38 PM.
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