U21 National team

[Marcelo]

Portugal just whooped.

[Daniel24]

Clubs Statistics

Israel		Portugal
0	Goals scored	4 Manuel Fernandes 37 , Ricardo Vaz Té 45 , Miguel Veloso 49 , Nani 50
3	Yellow card	5
0	Red card	0
3	Shots on goal	12
1	Shots wide	13
19	Fouls committed	15
1	Corners	12
1	Offsides	0
21' 43''	Ball. Poss. (time)	39' 43''
35%	Ball. Poss. (%)	65%

[Marcelo]

Clubs Statistics
Israel Portugal
0 Goals scored 4
3 Yellow card 5
0 Red card 0
3 Shots on goal 12
1 Shots wide 13 19 Fouls committed 15
1 Corners 12
1 Offsides 0
21' 43'' Ball. Poss. (time) 39' 43''
35% Ball. Poss. (%) 65%/What a difference.

What A difference.

[Daniel24]

Fernandes to phone a friend


Midfielder Manuel Fernandes says he is going to call a friend for a favour as Portugal wait to see whether or not their Olympic dream is over.
Hopes hang on England
Portugal's hopes of progress in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship ended on Saturday when, despite beating Israel 4-0, they were consigned to third place in Group A by Belgium's draw with the Netherlands. However, their Olympic aspirations remain alive, albeit hanging on England securing second place in Group B – in which case they would play off against the third-placed side in the other section for the fourth and final European ticket to Beijing.
Text messages
Fernandes, who spent the second half of 2006/07 on loan at Everton FC from SL Benfica, is backing England to help the Portuguese by beating Serbia on Sunday – and says he will be speaking to his friend in Stuart Pearce's squad, Everton striker James Vaughan. "I have been talking to James Vaughan by text message and I am going to ask him to win the game. Let's hope so," Fernandes told uefa.com. "I hope England can win against Serbia but it is not going to be easy. Everyone thinks Serbia are already in the semi-finals so it will be easy for England, but I don't think so.
Olympic goal
"But still, England have a really good team and I think they are going to win and go to the semi-finals and help us in a way," he added. "The first thing we said when we came here was we wanted to go to the Olympic Games, so we are going to try to do that." Fernandes opened the floodgates against Israel by driving in the first Portugal goal after 37 minutes yet he admits their dominant display came too late to rescue their prospects in the competition. "I am happy most of all because it was the first goal and after the first goal, everything went how we wanted it to go," he said.
Too little, too late
"Today was the performance that this team can do all the time - we proved we are a great team," added the 21-year-old. "We won this game but we knew we were depending on the other game so it was difficult for us. I won't lie to you, when I saw 2-2 [on the scoreboard] I got a little bit down. I thought they were going to stay 2-1 but then they made it 2-2. But we didn't miss out on the semi-finals today - we missed out in the other games."

Manuel Fernandes celebrates scoring Portugal's third goal

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[Marcelo]

Best Player for Portugal right there.

[Trim]

Watched the highlights yesterday on SkySports.
You guys have a great U21 side.
They impressed me yesterday.
Beautiful play, beautiful goals.

[Trim]

Forgot to ask...
Hugo Almeida is 23 years old, how can he play?

[Rui Da Silva]

Congradultions to Portugal for a great and enjoyable performance. But still they shit themselves in the first 2 games, They had the wrong team on the field vs Belgium and it cost them. big time

[ManuelD]

Originally Posted by Trim17

Forgot to ask...
Hugo Almeida is 23 years old, how can he play?

Good question anybody know the answer?

[Trim]

Just made a search..

Found out this:

Players born on or after 1 January 1984 were eligible to play.

First off, what does 'after 1 January 1984' mean? Does it mean any day/month in 1984? I guess so, cuz Hugo was born on 23.05.1984.

Though, this is really weird.
This rule confronts with the name U21.

[Frank Cunha]

England give us another opportunity, to qualify to the Olympics
now I'm pulling for England to go all the way

**abola.pt - «A BOLA on-line»

[Frank Cunha]

Game to take place on Thursday, I'm just asking for a good referee the will be fair to both teams

Olympic spot at stake

I'm glad we still got this opportunity

**abola.pt - «A BOLA on-line»

[Marcelo]

Each U 21 can have three players older than 21.

[verde-rubro]

Originally Posted by EURODAD

We complain that when a Ref sets the presedent on what a foul or what is a Penelty shot, then he has to be consistant the whole game. He was not. The foul against the Portugees player was IMO more obveouse than the one that the Ref granted a PS for. Vary poor job by the ref. I do beleive that the ref was pissed at our players and purposefully did not want to give them a penalty for that reason. We are paying a huge price now because of our senior NT diving all over the place.

Now, did we loose because of that non call ? No we lost it from our coach not making the correct subs or not starting to right players. Our players also, at times, did not show enough heart in this game. Nani a perfect example of no heart.

the ref was a homer ( HOLLAND WERE AT HOME)

[Marcelo]

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