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[Frank Cunha]

Originally Posted by EURODAD

I think you are right. I think we need to change things up but our coach likes to keep his veterans. Lets see what he does. Friendly games are to see what your players can do. I want to see some more younger players in there.

we don't have many veterans on the team, and that's our problem

[Frank Cunha]

C Ronaldo missle saved by Amelia

[Frank Cunha]

C Ronaldo just missed a head shot in front of the goal
no luck

[EURODAD]

Originally Posted by Frank Cunha

we don't have many veterans on the team, and that's our problem

Im thinking of a certain defencive midfeilder and a certain defender.

[Frank Cunha]

Bruno Alves with a nice play on defence

[Frank Cunha]

Nani just foul

[Frank Cunha]

C Ronaldo head shot just wide
just got a piece

[Frank Cunha]

3m of stoppage time

[Frank Cunha]

Amelia with another saved

[Frank Cunha]

C Ronaldo shot and saved by the keeper

[jec1]

We got a lot to work to do

I can tell you that the portuguese media will be all over scolari, and the team.... not to mention ricardo the frango.

As for work, Not really, it's simple, PLAY OUR BEST PLAYERS! Why leave out veloso/manelele? he didn't even play that much for the U21. I just had a conversation with jager. We must play our best assets on the field. Ricardo should be sitting on the bench, he's not our first option.

Our tactics sucks, why are we not playing at our potential. If madail really wants to stir things up, fire scolari!

Is this the team we should bring to the euros?

[Frank Cunha]

game over

1-3

Italian score at the right time, last minute of the first half, and then the third goal when Portugal just had reduce to 1-2

I always said, our win will come, and will be on a big competion

[z187]

Portugal just a piece of shit today another disgraceful performance.

[Frank Cunha]

I'm not going to pick on anybody, because I think the players the played today give it a all

[Oliver_Kahn]

This match proved we don't have a good enough team to win a big competition nor to beat a big team. Other than England twice on penalties, which good team have we beaten ? None. Don't mention Holland, that wasn't a football match.

Our bench is rubbish, we have no one we can bring which can change the game, other than Nani but 1 player isn't enough. The worst part of our bench is that individual who likes to punch people, yeah Scolari. His subs were so shit, our midfield didn't exist in the 2nd half, pretty poor choices. That 4-2-3-1 without a guy like Deco (we need someone to orchestrate) and someone like Meira (who doesn't run much, he is a positional player) just can't work.

His line-up was messed up as well, Makukula proved he is not NT class, just one goal against Armenia can't make him a national hero, his first touch is pretty poor, he can't pass and doesn't move.
Again I stress that Petit is shit in a 4-3-3 and he is in shit form.
Ricardo did some good saves, but again fucks up on crosses, he needs to be dropped.
And Ronaldo was crap again, he can claim whatever he wants, his goals and assists against Armenia and Azerbeijan don't mean shit, because when we need him in big matches, he sucks.

Our team was very disfuncional, missed too many passes, players running without direction, others not moving.. We again can't finish our chances and we were not focused in defense, too many little errors and stupid mistakes.

My ratings:
Ricardo - 5 -> if this match doesn't open Scolari's eyes, then nothing will
Bosingwa - 5 -> was good going forward, but had 2 lapses in defense, 1 led to Italy's goal
Carvalho - 4 -> had never seen such a poor performance
B Alves - 5 -> he tried his best, but I miss Pepe in there
Caneira - 4 -> can he even pass a ball ?
Petit - 3 -> he was abysmal, he needs to be dropped
Maniche - 4 -> poor performance
Deco - 5 -> he tried, just wasn't too inspired
Ronaldo - 5 -> again he was crap against a big team
Quaresma - 9 -> fucking legend, Simao who ? By far our best player on the pitch
Makukula - 3 -> our answer for the striker position ? i don't think so

Nani - 8 -> was very good I thought, made an assist, was very active, tried a lot and dribbled a lot. earn some of my respect
H Almeida - 5 -> did a lot better than Makukula in half the time on the pitch
P Ferreira - 4 -> where is the solid full-back we all know ?
Meireles - 5 -> one of the view bright spots in the second half
Meira - 2 -> i don't blame him for his atrocious performance, it's scolari's fault for playing him at CM
J Ribeiro - NR