Shout out to Diogo Costa. He saw his entire team play like crap for 120+ minutes and just decided to put an entire nation on his back the entire match, all the way to pens
Which team played like crap? The one who dominated most of the game, or the one who parked the bus? Portugal didn't play great, but from mid performance, to crap, there's a long way. It's one those games, Portugal scoring one goal early, and Slovenia would get battered. As for Diogo Costa, he didn't carry the team for the entire match, he did it in the last minutes of extra time and the penalty shootout. He made what, 2 saves the entire 120 minutes? One of them was huge, the other was standard.
@@dcarvalho6144That's all a good goalie on a good team really has to do. Mamardashvili obviously had quite the effort for Georgia, but he was playing for what frankly was just an ok team but played amazingly. Costa's performance shouldn't be too dented by the fact that Portugal's defense was excellent (except for that one Pepe error).
The second I saw Diogo Costa pull off that save at the end I got Emi Martinez flashbacks and I just KNEW Slovenia were cooked come the penalty shootout. Fair play to them, though and much respect to Costa. Now for a replay of the 2016 Euro final.
True 🎯💯 those kind of moments do a lot for confidence and momentum. That save was arguably bigger than the pen saves he went on to make just on a mental perspective 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
The major nations have a wager to see who can play the worst. Italy thought they'd won it by going out asap. England decided to stay in it just to keep the nightmare going. France thought finishing the group 2nd without scoring a goal from open play was enough. Spain and Germany didn't get the message.
@@agostinho6550 they literally won 4-1, sure they took time to get through the Georgian team but that's more of a statement to Georgia's defensive quality
fyi in Portugal we've been asking for CR7 to be out of the team for 4 years now (since the last Euros). His touch is terrible, he's slow af, zero agility and he's just parked at the far post waiting for crosses. Fernandes is one of the best freekick specialists in the world and CR7 takes every single freekick. It's criminal to waste our best generation and the dreams of millions of portuguese fans just so we dont hurt some retired billionaire's feelings. If you look at his current footballing skills, he's a below average striker. A Bendtner.
Bruno Fernandes hasn't scored a freekick in 4 years, do you watch football or do you really believe that he's one of the "best freekick specialists" in the world? And Portugal don't have a better striking option regardless of Ronaldo's performance so he will continue to start and Roberto Martínez probably doesn't want the media frenzy and to risk his job by benching the Portuguese GOAT.
@@NickthePobrecito bruno isnt going for goal you muppet. He would put itini box where our "striker" ie ronaldo can actually score from a good chance. Free kicks are not a good chance and doesnt cause defenders of keeper to think wher as bruno and bernardo can put the ball anywhere to any of several men in box that is much harderto defend than letting a guy whos only going to go from goal and never score take the kick. Starting to understand? They do have better options tathat positioin as CR is a winger who cant make runs in behind theline, wont drag defenders out of bo for wngers to attack, cant hold ball u for likes of bruno to run onto or wingers in build up play which has always been his strength. He doesnt press so thet cant recover ball in advantageous spots and insetadhave to break down a team sitting back in a defensive shell every tmie. Its basics you learn a s akid. I love this team before ronaldo ,during, and I look forward to after at this point like a lot of fans because of this circus of superficial fans who think one player deseres al, the credit and none of the criticism which isnt reality. When he does well its all about him and when he doesnt lets criticize all his teammates and guys who arent even involved in match. All because they refuse like him to celebrate anyone else. If bruno had taken that penalty and missed his fans he would have thrown a fit and hiis fans would crucify him but when ronaldo misses everyone has to console him because hes captain? To be clear they should support him and console him but because thats always been thie case he shouldnt be captain and hasnt for any team historically.He plays like a mercenary on the field and always has its why he has played in so many places for so many managers and doesnt speak glowingly about anyone. Even soft ball sir alex questions that he can just smash home like a volley and praise a man that helped him as a youth from sporting he refuses. His coach from sporting at 17 who coached him at 2016 euros he deosnt even speak to anymore for petty reasons. Please go to talk to ronaldo fans...portugal fans dont need this we have suffered with it enough.
yeah tbh portugual should just win portugual has actually won matches france wins by penalties or own goals every match and portugual really only look bad when playing vs 5 defender teams and france isnt anything like that or anyone this side of bracket to me i could see portugual cooking but if austria or swiss get to the final it may be bad times for portugual simply because they know how to play 5 defenders and other style
The Portugal Slovenia game was not boring. Maybe not up there with the likes of 1970s Netherlands or 1950s Hungary, but a great duel between two very different teams. Slovenia defended manfully for two hours and could have stolen the win late on. Think they should have started with Stankovič though, he added a bit of bite in midfield once he came on and played some great forward passes that almost led to chances. Portugal deserved to go through in the end, but the Slovenes can go home with their heads held high.
It was boring because Portugal has a massive black hole that forces the team to cross the ball into the area as much as they can. The game could've gone for an extra 2 hours, Portugal could've brought back vitinha into the field and they would still have absolutely no chance from open play (or free kicks) to score. Slovenia did what they had to do against a much better group of individual talent, but unfortunately they didn't find any luck from the break, unfortunate for sesko but I'm sure he'll have his time to shine later in his career
@@joaomarques4030 Bernardo and Bruno are in very poor form, forget playing well, although I think we were with Cancelo, Mendes, Vitinha, Palhinha and Leão playing well. Problem is Bruno and Bernardo are playing like Shi++++, but who can take them out of a game? João Neves and Mateus Nunes are not in form either and we don't have Pote or Horta in the squad.
I honestly would probably take Bernardo out against France, and play Cancelo on the right (Francisco does not have the quality to start for Portugal) and Dalot has a right back. Play Bernardo on the second half when he is fresher and can do something,
Yeah both of them were class. Was especially surprising to see Oblak channel his old self as well coz he'd been shaky in recent times with Atléti's on/off defence but showed his experience today 🙌🏿.
@@ezekielphiri2607 Simeone has still coached well over the years. Just unfortunately his defence keeps downgrading year after year with Atléti constantly wasting money on attackers and only recently starting to buy some good defenders rather than shoehorn players like Witsel into defence. But yeah specific to Oblak I was giving him part of the blame a bit coz he had his slight up and downs. Which is normal so I don't say it to criticize him was just pointing it out. He had a phase where his shot stopping had gone down significantly so couple that with his defence getting weaker it led to a disaster where Atléti were now conceding so many shots that they faced away from home. So this Slovenia performance felt like a vintage game from him 🙌🏿🔥. Which he was able to pull out whenever Atléti played at home these past two seasons but something he rarely ever pulled out in the away games for Atléti. But yeah good to see. Coz it was beginning to feel like he was entering his old man phase like the late stage Samir Handanović/Gigi Buffon arc
As a portugal supporter... I have no issues with ronaldo starting. Hes still useful but no way he should be playing the full 90. Give him 60 or max 70. Then get some fresh legs out there
The momet before the Slovenians prepared for the third penalty shot and I saw the determination in Diogo Costas eyes I just knew he would catch the third shot as well and become Portugals saviour and man of the match. And don't get me started on the magnificant save in the last half of extra time... damn what a save from Diogo Costa!
Belgium had the misfortune of their golden generation overlapping with France’s golden generation, Croatia’s golden generation, Ronaldo’s Portugal, along with excellent Argentinian and English teams. It’s difficult to break into even the top 5 spots in the world, let alone vying for silverware.
honestly a world cup semi is pretty good, all things considered. de bruyne will go down as the second best player to never win a balon d'or ( after henry of course )
3rd place in the 2018 WC is actually fine, considering they were nearly beaten by Japan in the round of 16 that year. Winning any international tournament is hard, but they have at least some medal to show for it.
Two boring games today but it was expected given the coaches at hand all played it safe. But that's knockout football, sometimes entertaining high risk games sometimes you get these stalemates where neither side wants to give up anything at the back. Belgium's attack disappointed me, figured they could have done a lot more to trouble France. Also credit to Slovenia defensively they did absolutely everything to keep that game alive, Oblak channeling his old self as well and on the other side Diogo Costa with some big saves and even outside the pen saves that save in extra time was big for Portugal. Thanks for your coverage as always Adrian 👊🏿🙏🏿 Tomorrow that Turkiye game has the writing to be nice and open so hopefully it delivers.
We had like 15 seconds apart from both our comments. It seems the first one does win 😂. I feel like the commercial with the guy and money on the fishing rod haha
@@vipervenomstlbut they would. Portugal are too one-dimensional with Ronaldo. He's not the unstoppable beast he once was anymore. Like Adrian said, Drkusic was able to keep him quiet. At least with Ramos or Jota Portutal have more variety and more players functioning in a press. Ronaldo fanboys need to learn that no matter how great a player is, time catches up to them. Football is a team game, and Ronaldo only works when the team works for him.
@@Oakeedokee7ramos is not better than ronaldo even when he is 39 and jota is better but he has fitness problems that make him unable to start and play the full game...what is killing portugal is players like bernardo and bruno that are underperforming a lot despite being in their "prime"
France vs Belgium was a borefest I nearly fell asleep Slovenia played it well, managing to tire out Portugal until the penalties Between Portugal and France, my pick’s Portugal
@@kageryu311 France have scored 0 real goals in the entire tournament, they're washed and got through with pure luck. They scored 1 penalty and 2 own goals from opponents lol
I can’t even think of a parallel in any other sport? Shaquille oneal’s free throw % maybe comes close. But for the comparison to be true, Shaq needed to have a great free throw % for 3-4 years, followed by progressively more dismal numbers as his career progressed.
You know what... Im actually proud of the Portugal national team NOT for the performance ofcourse, they were absolute dogshit this game. But when I saw Cr7 crying after the pen I saw all the players hug and support him. The fact that they are one team and they support Cr7 regardless of his performance, makes me happy for 2026 and I hope cr7 keeps playing.
@@frankdenweed6456 I understand but he doesn’t have much more games left, there’s just nations league and maybe a World Cup. And jota works best in a dual striker formation and Ramos was washed against Georgia. I get your point though.
Adrian, I was waiting for a while to see you lose your patience on Ronaldo, I remember you making a video prior to the World Cup in 2022 on how Ronaldo shouldn’t play, i was surprised you didn’t mention that as much this tournament despite him being 2 years older. It seems like this match brought you back to your previous opinion on him.
Because it's not a personal thing with me against Ronaldo, more a performance thing. He was playing well in Saudi Arabia, so I was fine with seeing how he could do in this tournament. But beyond the first two matches, he has reverted back to the antics that drive me crazy. I know Martinez won't bench him, and he can maybe provide some play for his teammates as he did against Czechia and Turkey. But if the performance is as poor as this one, then hopefully he'll get subbed in the second half to give a chance to someone else.
Ronaldo, Bruno and Bernardo havent been playing well those have been the most disappointing players from Portugal, Leão will not perform while we'll play Ronaldo or at least as a single striker. Vitinha getting out before Bruno is mind boggling, putting Conceição for Leão instead of Bernardo AND keeping him on the left where he cant perform is also another blunder from Martinez. Honestly man this guy is a curse to any team the manages. Shout out to a perfect game from Diogo Costa one of those super goalies that keeps getting passed the mega clubs scouting lol he and Vitinha once again and Cancelo in the second half were the only redeeming parts of this miserable game.
@@alibarznji2000he absolutely can play for 90min. Y'all acting like he had a terrible game. He was unlucky with the crosses he received, Slovenia kept it very tight with no space in the box, and Oblak made a great save on the pen.
@@dcarvalho6144he was awful. If he doesn’t score, he’s absolutely useless. Has been a one dimensional player since 2018 at least. Doesn’t press, isn’t active off the ball when he’s not getting it served on a platter, doesn’t create for others, wastes chances. Has no speed, no quickness and can’t even jump well anymore. He’s selfish and is stifling this team. 1/64 on free kicks and 9 games without a goal at international tournaments to end his career will be on Ronaldo’s tombstone. He did this to himself. He would exchange one goal at this euros for 10 straight Portugal losses just to glorify his ego.
When it comes to Ronaldo's penalty miss, I've seen a lot arguments on his tears. And I kinda understand both sides. I get people defending him, saying he's human and he feels like he has the whole world on his shoulders. And I agree, he has so much pressure on him to perform for Portugal. However, I also see the other side of the argument. It's just a miss penalty. With 15 minutes to go against Slovenia at 0-0, you just don't have a mental breakdown and start crying. You need to keep tour head in the game. Everyone's looking up to you for support, you need to show strength.
I think he's having a lot of issues dealing with the end of his career. Especially when it hasn't been going very well. It feels like he's suffering mentally because his body doesn't agree with him, I've never seen him succumb to the pressure like this, in the past he shut everyone down with his performances, but now that he has aged, the pressure has gotten to him.
is this even a topic of conversation? People discussing if someone should cry or not... it's emotions ya'll, just let people cope with stuff their own way,. It's not like he threw a punch at someone or something, he just cried like... wtv
I am a Portugal supporter as well but ...damn this match was really hard to watch ... Thank god Diego literally saved the day. I love Cristiano but he was mentally totally destroyed and under too much pressure. I hope he learned his lesson and he'll give other players the opportunity to do the free kicks during the next match.
And Ronaldo never gets totally "destroyed", its not what he is. It was not that Ronaldo Kick was a bad one in penalty, simply they had a fantastic keeper. Portugal lacks verticality and explosivity in the front to get through a brickwall. Remember last time Portugal and Spain felt to Morocco, and Spain are the favorites now.
Portugal played as I expected, but CR7 and Bruno really disappointed me. It got really hard to watch 😢 But Diogo Costa was truly Himothy in this match 🔥🔥🔥
I'm sorry Cristiano, please deal with the fact that You're not 30 anymore. Be a team player and come off your high horse. It's very hard to watch him like this
Y cuz he took a couple extra free kicks he probably shouldn’t have?? Overreacting hardcore. He only got 1 or 2 clear chances the entire match and other than that was passing and trying to create when he had the opportunity. Yes he took a few free kicks he shouldn’t have which u could say is selfish, but u really think Bernardo or Bruno gonna score those either?
@@EleazarHernandez2213Im sorry but it is really hard to watch, he is the goat, yes, but hes not as good anymore and it hurts to say, but he shouldnt be starting for portugal anymore (ability wise), if he is a good leader and is needed, then good for him, but if hes playing for the purpose of just being a good baller then idk anymore, love the guy and been an idol since 2003 but I dont want to overlook the facts
Bro how dumb are you ? Ronaldo doesn't help in build up, does not press the opposition defenders and cannot take his chances. He is 39 but acts as if he is 29 and throws a sissy fit if not played the whole 90 mins (which he can't). He is stifling Portugal and is taking up a spot that a much younger striker could and should have taken@@EleazarHernandez2213
ronaldo keeps playing because he is obsessed with messi, simple as that. even if he wins the euros, having 2 euros + nations leagie is not better than 1 world cup + 1 copa america + 1 finalissima. ronaldo needs to win both the euro 2024 and world cup 2026 and hope that messi lose both 2024 copa america and 2026 world cup for ronaldo to become equal than him, if not only slightly better at an international level in terms of achievements. that's also not considering the 8-5 balon dor deficit, the 6-4 golden boot deficit, and an inferior club and individual trophy haul, as well as a statistical inferiority that he has to messi in all stats outside goals. this guy is delusional beyond belief that he still obsess over a lost cause. he will never be goat. i wish a competent manager can have the balls to tell him this and retire him because ronaldo is really holding this team back
Where is this hate to Ronaldo coming from? Ronaldo being desperate for a Record? What? Where did you heard that Rabona? If that was true we would not have squared it to Bruno vs Turkey He was just giving his all and trying his best to give us the win... Just that And Rafael Leão has done nothing this euro... Wait he did something... Get a match ban for simulation... Awfull
bruno fernandes and bernardo silva should be the main players getting slack for these poor portugal performances throughout the euros as theyre being completely outshined by vitinha who is imo the best player for us these euros, and at the end of the day ronaldo is still a major threat in the box and typically a clinical finisher and clear of any other options we have on the bench (talking about ramos as a pure n9 and jota as a main striker), main problem was certainly martinez changes in the midfield and the wing which literally killed any type of flow and danger we managed to find with that mendes leão left side that was absolutely cooking in the first half, anyway hoping for a way better performance vs france considering there will be a lot more space for our creators and attackers to flourish, love the videos man keep up the good work
It's true, they have been quite poor. Would rather see Bernardo play in the midfield (if Portugal go ahead with 4-3-3), Bruno benched. I'm undecided on who should play on the right.
@@RabonaTV Honestly, playing Cancelo in the wing if Martinez continues going for a 433 (personally, I don't think that's the best formation for the current team). Cancelo has the pace and dribbling skills to actually win 1v1s that Bernardo simply cannot do. Also, playing Bernardo and vitinha both on the midfield feels a bit repetitive no? They are very similar players after all. Would it not be more interesting to have Neves instead of Bernardo to bring a more combative player, in particular considering the France Portugal is going to face?
fr the only team that decided to play the game and not park the bus in front of the net, lost 3-0. Portugal is a menace, and the only way to handle them is playing defense. A style of playing that apparently they're not very good at playing against.
They need to either hit Ronaldo better with the long balls or stop doing them all together if he is not able to score them change to low balls Ronaldo drags at least 2 defenders out with him everywhere he goes so it should be easy for the rest to use those holes and spaces to score
What happened yesterday was unforgivable for martinez. He sabotaged the portugeuse midfield, and then refused to elaborate or do any other sub. When he finaly does, its ruben neves and semedo. Disgraceful. I hope he gets fired whatever the outcome of this euro is.
It was tough watching the Portugal v. Slovenia match, but I sincerely hope the Slovenian supporters and people will take this experience with some positive vibes and hopefully strive to make the next big international tournament soon.
Slovenia's game without the ball was amazing. Kind of sucks when no one cares, its always about the great teams not winning by three. Their block was so good, never losing focus and always able to keep going for the all game. It woud be much more interesting if "pundits" coud talk about the acctual game, football wise
As a Slovenian I a proud of this team obvously I would have rather lost a little less emberisingly in the shout out. But oh no we lost as the underdog what a shock. If only Šeško didnt fucking shoot on the ground. Just go around him or chip or just aim higher and that other miss hit shoot like cmon and also why did we put Balkovec and Verbič as a 2nd and 3rd pen takers like im fine with Iličić but Balkovec like why its so stupid to have your best player on the 5th pen he should be first not less get some pressure off and did Kek have to get a red card just shut up dont complain also what even happened that he got sent off. And šeško why why just do anything else than shoot low. Good job Portugal beating us on pens u will surely win the Euros now. Like how are u so shit make some damn changes it obviously didnt work.
I was routine for Slovenia then I saw CR7 crying is eyes out and I had to change it up If england doesn't win I routing for Portugal now the passion changed me
This Euro is quite boring. I think it's probably the worst of all Euros. Big teams were really struggling and playing more defensively, while there were so many own goals and goals that are incorrectly disallowed by VAR.
When will portugal players have the character and courage to tell ronaldo. No. You will not take another free kick. Look at every team. Theyl all alternate. Not portugal. And you just know every free kick will be going to waste. Just to please ronaldo. Insane
People need to stop calling teams like Slovenia purposely wanting to draw and parking the bus “playing well” . One team is trying to win, the other isn’t
They tried to win by counter. The two šeško chances were better then anything Portugal had except the penalty. It's about space. If Slovenia leaves lots of space, Portugal can just play their game. Slowenia has players from second divisions and the greek league, they really are a class below portugal. Teams like france and Belgium get rightly critizised for being defensive.
@@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506 yeah a better, more mature šeško wins it imo. Guy reminds me of Hojlund, has a lot of good attributes and potential but is still raw. I think in the next tourney he probably buries at least one of the chances he got. Either way yeah saying Slovenia played for a draw is ridiculous, those couple of chances were really good. They had some kind of plan going forward, but obviously had to do it on the counter. Undoubtedly the game going to penalties suits them more than Portugal because of the squad quality difference, but to say they didn't try to win is treating Slovenia unfairly. I'm Polish, I've seen actual playing for a draw and not wanting to win... and it ain't that lol
It's literally called tactics, you can't expect to play in the same way as a individually much stronger team and go away with a result. You invite pressure onto yourselves so that you can exploit the spaces when you're able to get the ball back. It's the other team's job to then be able to tactically get through said block, and Portugal showed against Czechia and Georgia they are barely able to get through a low block, so Slovenia took advantage. Portugal literally played in a similar way in 2016 when they won
Portugal's match went pretty much exactly how I predicted, at least until the extra time and the penalties. I wasn't even mad when I was slotted to work during the first half: at least I was spared 45 minutes of Portugal dreary performance, of them moving at a snail's pace and throwing long balls. I'm happy that we won, with a few epic details, but it shouldn't have been this hard. Respect for Slovenia, but they're not German. Portugal shouldn't have struggled this much!
I would love to see Ronaldo become a proper supersub but I think he just doesn’t feel like he’s done enough and wants to prove himself. It’s more that he’s not meeting his own expectations and not letting go is his own downfall
You've never played against a deep 442 , it's tough specially with two center backs who are great in the air, i don't get the Ronaldo hate no other player did that much better infront of goal
Ronaldo wasn't worse than Bruno and Bernardo and was better than them in the other 2 games. Mbappe missed ALL his chances for France. He had like 10 good chances and missed them ALL. Oblak is a world class keeper. Ronaldo will shut us up again.
cancelo, vitinha, and mendes have all had very good tournaments vitinha has been conducting and pulling strings with quick progressive passes I yelled at TV when that was first change. After watching england struggle through kane, belgium struggle through lukkaku, and especially portugal struggle again forcing everything through Ronny im genuinely convinced that finances are influencing managing decisions I cant think of any other logical reason. This is a team like figo and costas generation that can be so hardto defend through prioiritizing best pass is open pass. They have all the tools to break down low blocks in young quick quys with good touch, quick movement like jota, neto, felix, conceicao, and I agree leao actually did well against slovenia. He and ronny are only two that dont press which is other way to get ball in more advanced position so they arent having to break down a block of 11 defenders all behind the ball every damn time. Its so frustrating and as life long fan of benfica and national team im close to forfeiting any hope I could see it again in second consecutive tournament do to same circus and distracions we have had sinice certainly qatar but even 2020/21 euros. Bom dia amigo, vamos selecao forcaa portugal casa benfica : ) it will get better !!
I love Ronaldo. He is my goat. I truly believe he needs to be bench or get his attitude in check. This is not 2016 anymore and he needs to play as a team and not worry about his own records. Hope he sees that after todays performance and make changes.
It’s crazy just how many poor the big teams are this year. All of France, Italy, England and Portugal have looked bad. Only Spain and Germany have been cooking. Austria and Switzerland have looked good too
Yes putting in ramos would completely change this portugal team. Because his insane form of 14 goals in 40 games for psg is crazy. I don’t understand why you disrespect Ronaldo so much as a “Portuguese” whitout cr7 our nation would be nothing
People are just dumb. Ramos is a great CF for a team that presses high. Against Slovenia, just like against Morocco in 2022, the opponent never has the ball, so the pressing ability of Ramos is useless. So you either start Ronaldo or Jota or both in a front 2. In today's game, the problem wasn't the striker, was the team behind him, which was slow at times. Bruno Fernandos had a fairly bad game for example. Plus the pitch itself was quite bad, which affects the team who plays possession, a lot more than the team who parks the bus. Against France, sure, maybe Ramos might make sense to start, for his pressing ability. The game is Friday, so some players may not be able to do 90min after playing the full 120 today
Slovenia needs to go back home and defend for another 90m....I understand the style of play, but I hate it. Bernardo Silva and Bruno Fernandes, again, zero....this game asked for a Felix that plays well in tight spaces and with good first touch. Jota made the difference.
Slovenia has to make that kind of play. Slovenia has a team worth around 140 mil, all players together. So to be competetive to big nations like Portugal, they have to must not let them score. On the other side, goal will be scored if they see the opportunity.
How did Portugal play terribly? Sure there was an issue with the finalizing aspect, as it had been since the beginning, but Portugal played well against a team that had the least possession percentage in the competition, at least, until minute 70. Their focus is defending and they executed it really well. That's why they got this far... by trying to wait for a counter-attack and defending cohesively and being really well organized. Oblak was astounishing on Slovenia's side, but Diogo Costa is simply a beast at keeping...and you can see that at Porto. As for Rafael Leao, yeah he struggles to find an opening between defense's lines, but with the ball, he's quite fast. On the other hand, I think Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva, weren't that great, actually, they have been mediocre since the beginning of the tournament... and their performance is below par, compared to what we see in club.... Ronaldo's freekicks were quite good, besides the one on the left side...it made no sense for him to try and score... But idk, who would take Ronaldo's turn to score a freekick? Bruno? nah i don't think so... Other than that, I'm not sure what people are expecting from him, he's 39 yrs old, playing his last euro, and frankly, he's doing okayish
Honestly, CR has been one of Portugal's best players this Euro. He is the only one who actually looks like wanting to win the match, all others are more interested in playing a slow, lazy, predictable football. Every time the ball carrier has multiple opponents between him and the closest teammate, everyone except CR looks like they would rather not have qualified. I happen to like watching people play with a fire to win, so as long as he is the only one showcasing it, he could play till he drops dead
Ronaldo wanted to make Diogo Costa a euro record LOL (Joking of course) Man what a match as a Portuguese, it was tough to watch Leao needs to stay on, take off Bruno Fernandes, and the Free Kick from almost the corner needs to be either Fernandes, Bernardo , or Vitinha, because My GOD Ronaldo at his prime would've rifled it in. The match against France Martinez has to play his cards right from the starting ling ups to his subs!
The real horror would have been Slovenia reaching the 1/4 finals with 4 draws. It's insane what's those "best" third placed teams are doing to the tournament in terms of quality and standards. Diogo Costa may well turn out to be Portugal's best ever GK: before there was Ricardo and Rui Patricio who excelled in shootouts but were unreliable in the game itself.
If Portugal wants to win they have to make their team in the best interest of the team and not in the best interest of Ronaldo. Ronaldo needs to understand that younger players need to shine and he should be benched at start and brought only at the 2nd half for moral boost.
@@EuropeanPOW do you remember in the wc 2022 when Ronaldo failed to score a non penalty goal up to the switzerland round of 16 when Goncalo Ramos took his place and scored a hattrick.
I'll probably get hate for this but I can't help but feel that Portugal would be a more fluid and dangerous attacking side without Ronaldo starting and instead being used as an impact sub. So many of their attacking forays throughout the tournament end up with little threat and resorting to constantly feeding him balls in. A team with this much attacking talent should not be playing so poorly and Martinez deserves blame for his tactics but hey I guess they're through to the quarters and that's all that matters but I can't see. Can't see them beating France despite them also being unimpressive though
Portuguese here, and most of us agree with you, but it's worse than you think. The coaches that are selected for international tournaments in Portugal are the ones that let CR7 play, regardless of how his form is. Even 2 years ago, the team looked stronger when CR7 was on the bench. Fernando Santos, bad as he was as a coach, eventually understood that. And when he finally realized it, he got immediately replaced, because the higher ups would rather profit from Ronaldo's presence in the field than actually care about winning internationally
It’s easy guys you let the 🐐 play and start until he retires. It’s an honor to watch him play really guys we will probably never see a player like this in our lifetime
@@diogobarreto1013Fernando Santos benched Ronaldo against Morocco and look where it got us. People will hate on Ronaldo just for the sake of it, and will come with the craziest excuses to do so. The team has had problems with Ronaldo on the pitch, and with him on the bench. Different games, different stories. Portugal plays better against teams that play open minded football, and struggles against teams that park the bus, and it's no differemt between the different striker options
It wouldn't. Against teams that park the bus, the striker rarely has any influence on the fluidity of the team. Those teams are literaly prepared to limit the attacking ability of the stronger opponent, with little to no space for the striker. Changing Ronaldo for Ramos makes no difference. To have a more fluid attack, players in the midfield and on the wings, need to move the ball faster
Shout out to Diogo Costa. He saw his entire team play like crap for 120+ minutes and just decided to put an entire nation on his back the entire match, all the way to pens
Almost literally, since he had his back turned to the Portuguese fans. He wasn't defending the goal, he was defending them!
Which team played like crap? The one who dominated most of the game, or the one who parked the bus? Portugal didn't play great, but from mid performance, to crap, there's a long way. It's one those games, Portugal scoring one goal early, and Slovenia would get battered.
As for Diogo Costa, he didn't carry the team for the entire match, he did it in the last minutes of extra time and the penalty shootout. He made what, 2 saves the entire 120 minutes? One of them was huge, the other was standard.
@@dcarvalho6144That's all a good goalie on a good team really has to do. Mamardashvili obviously had quite the effort for Georgia, but he was playing for what frankly was just an ok team but played amazingly. Costa's performance shouldn't be too dented by the fact that Portugal's defense was excellent (except for that one Pepe error).
What did you expact the Players how toke pens were old and not playing in top 5 leagues
Portugal didn't play bad, Slovenia was incredible defensively. They played like prime Atletico😂😂😂
The second I saw Diogo Costa pull off that save at the end I got Emi Martinez flashbacks and I just KNEW Slovenia were cooked come the penalty shootout. Fair play to them, though and much respect to Costa.
Now for a replay of the 2016 Euro final.
True 🎯💯 those kind of moments do a lot for confidence and momentum. That save was arguably bigger than the pen saves he went on to make just on a mental perspective 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Bruh the latin ESPN commentators also compared Diogo's saves with Martinez's.
The major nations have a wager to see who can play the worst. Italy thought they'd won it by going out asap. England decided to stay in it just to keep the nightmare going. France thought finishing the group 2nd without scoring a goal from open play was enough. Spain and Germany didn't get the message.
Best comment!
Germnay is playing poorly in the last games, and Spain last game was aldo not good
@@agostinho6550 they literally won 4-1, sure they took time to get through the Georgian team but that's more of a statement to Georgia's defensive quality
What about the Netherlands? I feel they’ve just been…ok
@@silvesta5027 I really wanted to do Portugal, Belgium and Nederlands as well! I consider them all major football nations. I just got lazy
So sad to see SuperJan with the own goal to end his Belgium career... Really unfortunate. Great player.
When I saw Leão being subbed off and Bernardo Silva who didn’t do anything that game staying on was unexpected.
France did WHAT to Belgium⁉️
They didn't let Belgium come 😞
😭😭😭
@@wholewheatbread8816 Nah he just tryna work with TH-cam algorithm cuz ain't no way bro said that. Not my Goat pundit 😢
Belgium gooned too close to the sun
Lakaka edged too soon
fyi in Portugal we've been asking for CR7 to be out of the team for 4 years now (since the last Euros). His touch is terrible, he's slow af, zero agility and he's just parked at the far post waiting for crosses. Fernandes is one of the best freekick specialists in the world and CR7 takes every single freekick. It's criminal to waste our best generation and the dreams of millions of portuguese fans just so we dont hurt some retired billionaire's feelings. If you look at his current footballing skills, he's a below average striker. A Bendtner.
Bruno Fernandes hasn't scored a freekick in 4 years, do you watch football or do you really believe that he's one of the "best freekick specialists" in the world? And Portugal don't have a better striking option regardless of Ronaldo's performance so he will continue to start and Roberto Martínez probably doesn't want the media frenzy and to risk his job by benching the Portuguese GOAT.
@@NickthePobrecito bruno isnt going for goal you muppet. He would put itini box where our "striker" ie ronaldo can actually score from a good chance. Free kicks are not a good chance and doesnt cause defenders of keeper to think wher as bruno and bernardo can put the ball anywhere to any of several men in box that is much harderto defend than letting a guy whos only going to go from goal and never score take the kick. Starting to understand? They do have better options tathat positioin as CR is a winger who cant make runs in behind theline, wont drag defenders out of bo for wngers to attack, cant hold ball u for likes of bruno to run onto or wingers in build up play which has always been his strength. He doesnt press so thet cant recover ball in advantageous spots and insetadhave to break down a team sitting back in a defensive shell every tmie. Its basics you learn a s akid. I love this team before ronaldo ,during, and I look forward to after at this point like a lot of fans because of this circus of superficial fans who think one player deseres al, the credit and none of the criticism which isnt reality.
When he does well its all about him and when he doesnt lets criticize all his teammates and guys who arent even involved in match. All because they refuse like him to celebrate anyone else. If bruno had taken that penalty and missed his fans he would have thrown a fit and hiis fans would crucify him but when ronaldo misses everyone has to console him because hes captain? To be clear they should support him and console him but because thats always been thie case he shouldnt be captain and hasnt for any team historically.He plays like a mercenary on the field and always has its why he has played in so many places for so many managers and doesnt speak glowingly about anyone.
Even soft ball sir alex questions that he can just smash home like a volley and praise a man that helped him as a youth from sporting he refuses. His coach from sporting at 17 who coached him at 2016 euros he deosnt even speak to anymore for petty reasons. Please go to talk to ronaldo fans...portugal fans dont need this we have suffered with it enough.
France v Portugal might be one of the most pragmatic games of the tournament. I wish they would just go for it instead of playing scared
yeah tbh portugual should just win portugual has actually won matches france wins by penalties or own goals every match and portugual really only look bad when playing vs 5 defender teams and france isnt anything like that or anyone this side of bracket to me i could see portugual cooking but if austria or swiss get to the final it may be bad times for portugual simply because they know how to play 5 defenders and other style
The Portugal Slovenia game was not boring. Maybe not up there with the likes of 1970s Netherlands or 1950s Hungary, but a great duel between two very different teams. Slovenia defended manfully for two hours and could have stolen the win late on. Think they should have started with Stankovič though, he added a bit of bite in midfield once he came on and played some great forward passes that almost led to chances. Portugal deserved to go through in the end, but the Slovenes can go home with their heads held high.
It was boring because Portugal has a massive black hole that forces the team to cross the ball into the area as much as they can. The game could've gone for an extra 2 hours, Portugal could've brought back vitinha into the field and they would still have absolutely no chance from open play (or free kicks) to score. Slovenia did what they had to do against a much better group of individual talent, but unfortunately they didn't find any luck from the break, unfortunate for sesko but I'm sure he'll have his time to shine later in his career
@@joaomarques4030 Bernardo and Bruno are in very poor form, forget playing well, although I think we were with Cancelo, Mendes, Vitinha, Palhinha and Leão playing well. Problem is Bruno and Bernardo are playing like Shi++++, but who can take them out of a game? João Neves and Mateus Nunes are not in form either and we don't have Pote or Horta in the squad.
I honestly would probably take Bernardo out against France, and play Cancelo on the right (Francisco does not have the quality to start for Portugal) and Dalot has a right back. Play Bernardo on the second half when he is fresher and can do something,
People forgetting Oblak is one of the best keepers in the world, alongside Diogo Costa.
Yeah both of them were class. Was especially surprising to see Oblak channel his old self as well coz he'd been shaky in recent times with Atléti's on/off defence but showed his experience today 🙌🏿.
@TheOnlyTaps not really, Simeone is the one to blame.😂😂
@@ezekielphiri2607 Simeone has still coached well over the years. Just unfortunately his defence keeps downgrading year after year with Atléti constantly wasting money on attackers and only recently starting to buy some good defenders rather than shoehorn players like Witsel into defence.
But yeah specific to Oblak I was giving him part of the blame a bit coz he had his slight up and downs. Which is normal so I don't say it to criticize him was just pointing it out. He had a phase where his shot stopping had gone down significantly so couple that with his defence getting weaker it led to a disaster where Atléti were now conceding so many shots that they faced away from home.
So this Slovenia performance felt like a vintage game from him 🙌🏿🔥. Which he was able to pull out whenever Atléti played at home these past two seasons but something he rarely ever pulled out in the away games for Atléti.
But yeah good to see. Coz it was beginning to feel like he was entering his old man phase like the late stage Samir Handanović/Gigi Buffon arc
As a portugal supporter... I have no issues with ronaldo starting. Hes still useful but no way he should be playing the full 90. Give him 60 or max 70. Then get some fresh legs out there
I think that is fine. It offers more variety. I think Ronaldo has become too one dimensional for him to play a full 90. He's 39 so that's fair.
That would be ideal, but seemingly won't happen.
Nuno Mendes. What a BEAST
The momet before the Slovenians prepared for the third penalty shot and I saw the determination in Diogo Costas eyes I just knew he would catch the third shot as well and become Portugals saviour and man of the match. And don't get me started on the magnificant save in the last half of extra time... damn what a save from Diogo Costa!
Ngl a little shocked that Belguim "golden age" didn't win anything.
Belgium had the misfortune of their golden generation overlapping with France’s golden generation, Croatia’s golden generation, Ronaldo’s Portugal, along with excellent Argentinian and English teams. It’s difficult to break into even the top 5 spots in the world, let alone vying for silverware.
If they'd been around in 2014, they would have probably been a contender for the WC.
honestly a world cup semi is pretty good, all things considered. de bruyne will go down as the second best player to never win a balon d'or ( after henry of course )
@@somethingwithultra7231 nobody could stop that german team dude
3rd place in the 2018 WC is actually fine, considering they were nearly beaten by Japan in the round of 16 that year. Winning any international tournament is hard, but they have at least some medal to show for it.
Two boring games today but it was expected given the coaches at hand all played it safe.
But that's knockout football, sometimes entertaining high risk games sometimes you get these stalemates where neither side wants to give up anything at the back.
Belgium's attack disappointed me, figured they could have done a lot more to trouble France. Also credit to Slovenia defensively they did absolutely everything to keep that game alive, Oblak channeling his old self as well and on the other side Diogo Costa with some big saves and even outside the pen saves that save in extra time was big for Portugal.
Thanks for your coverage as always Adrian 👊🏿🙏🏿
Tomorrow that Turkiye game has the writing to be nice and open so hopefully it delivers.
This Portugal squad is playing exactly how I said they were, like shit. Yet everyone says we will win, sigh, sure...
france does what to belgium☠️😭🙏
💀💀💀
We had like 15 seconds apart from both our comments. It seems the first one does win 😂. I feel like the commercial with the guy and money on the fishing rod haha
Diogo Costa performance was historic.Portugal will now be very confident if it gets to penalty shootouts.
imagine having to watch deschampsball and martinezball back-to-back
And now against each other 😅
Diogo Costa literally carried Portugal to the next round . Brilliant keeper
Ronaldo is killing Portugals game,they would be much better without him
clueless lol
@@vipervenomstlbut they would. Portugal are too one-dimensional with Ronaldo. He's not the unstoppable beast he once was anymore. Like Adrian said, Drkusic was able to keep him quiet. At least with Ramos or Jota Portutal have more variety and more players functioning in a press.
Ronaldo fanboys need to learn that no matter how great a player is, time catches up to them. Football is a team game, and Ronaldo only works when the team works for him.
@@Oakeedokee7 yeah, it was pretty much true since the last tournament. Ronaldo could be great off the bench but not start
@@Oakeedokee7ramos is not better than ronaldo even when he is 39 and jota is better but he has fitness problems that make him unable to start and play the full game...what is killing portugal is players like bernardo and bruno that are underperforming a lot despite being in their "prime"
@@pedrooliveira6394May be Ronaldo is impacting their performance
France vs Belgium was a borefest I nearly fell asleep
Slovenia played it well, managing to tire out Portugal until the penalties
Between Portugal and France, my pick’s Portugal
France will beat Portugal. This Portugal side is unimpressive.
@@kageryu311 France have scored 0 real goals in the entire tournament, they're washed and got through with pure luck. They scored 1 penalty and 2 own goals from opponents lol
@@kageryu311Unimpressive how?
@@kageryu311France hasn't even scored in open play😂😂
I think Portugal beat France 1-0
Just gotta shout out Adrian🙌
Been watching for years and he's so underated. One of the best football channels imo
It’s 1 out of 64 free kicks..… dismal
I mean, even with no game, you're gonna be scoring at least twice with 64 free licks.
I can’t even think of a parallel in any other sport? Shaquille oneal’s free throw % maybe comes close. But for the comparison to be true, Shaq needed to have a great free throw % for 3-4 years, followed by progressively more dismal numbers as his career progressed.
yeah i don't know why they still let him take it every time... he has strengths but free kicks were never one of them
You know what... Im actually proud of the Portugal national team NOT for the performance ofcourse, they were absolute dogshit this game. But when I saw Cr7 crying after the pen I saw all the players hug and support him. The fact that they are one team and they support Cr7 regardless of his performance, makes me happy for 2026 and I hope cr7 keeps playing.
He's 39 years old and the game wasn't lost. If he'd missed the vital pen in the shoot out I could understand, but he was just being a drama queen.
He's holding the team back, the manager should do the right thing and bench him
@@frankdenweed6456 its good that the manager isnt a donkey loke you or other keyboard warriors
@@frankdenweed6456 I understand but he doesn’t have much more games left, there’s just nations league and maybe a World Cup. And jota works best in a dual striker formation and Ramos was washed against Georgia. I get your point though.
Nice of his team to support him particularly as he refuses to reciprocate
Adrian, I was waiting for a while to see you lose your patience on Ronaldo, I remember you making a video prior to the World Cup in 2022 on how Ronaldo shouldn’t play, i was surprised you didn’t mention that as much this tournament despite him being 2 years older. It seems like this match brought you back to your previous opinion on him.
Because it's not a personal thing with me against Ronaldo, more a performance thing. He was playing well in Saudi Arabia, so I was fine with seeing how he could do in this tournament. But beyond the first two matches, he has reverted back to the antics that drive me crazy. I know Martinez won't bench him, and he can maybe provide some play for his teammates as he did against Czechia and Turkey. But if the performance is as poor as this one, then hopefully he'll get subbed in the second half to give a chance to someone else.
Ronaldo is not helping the team in any way. It's like playing 9 outfield players.
Ronaldo, Bruno and Bernardo havent been playing well those have been the most disappointing players from Portugal, Leão will not perform while we'll play Ronaldo or at least as a single striker. Vitinha getting out before Bruno is mind boggling, putting Conceição for Leão instead of Bernardo AND keeping him on the left where he cant perform is also another blunder from Martinez. Honestly man this guy is a curse to any team the manages.
Shout out to a perfect game from Diogo Costa one of those super goalies that keeps getting passed the mega clubs scouting lol he and Vitinha once again and Cancelo in the second half were the only redeeming parts of this miserable game.
Martinez doesn't simple have hands for the Ferrari, remembering Belgium BTW... weak Coach that chooses Status instead of Quality...
I beg you Ronaldo, PLEASE either let Jota/Ramos start or at least let someone else take freekicks. This is getting ridiculous
When I saw Ronaldo taking free kicks from corner kicks angles, I legitimately had to pause and ask myself "has this old man gone senile?"
It's time to face reality, he's just not it anymore. Maybe for 20 minutes he can play, but that's it.
@@alibarznji2000he absolutely can play for 90min. Y'all acting like he had a terrible game. He was unlucky with the crosses he received, Slovenia kept it very tight with no space in the box, and Oblak made a great save on the pen.
@@dcarvalho6144he was awful. If he doesn’t score, he’s absolutely useless. Has been a one dimensional player since 2018 at least. Doesn’t press, isn’t active off the ball when he’s not getting it served on a platter, doesn’t create for others, wastes chances. Has no speed, no quickness and can’t even jump well anymore.
He’s selfish and is stifling this team. 1/64 on free kicks and 9 games without a goal at international tournaments to end his career will be on Ronaldo’s tombstone. He did this to himself. He would exchange one goal at this euros for 10 straight Portugal losses just to glorify his ego.
@@SKa-tt9nmfacts
When it comes to Ronaldo's penalty miss, I've seen a lot arguments on his tears. And I kinda understand both sides.
I get people defending him, saying he's human and he feels like he has the whole world on his shoulders. And I agree, he has so much pressure on him to perform for Portugal.
However, I also see the other side of the argument. It's just a miss penalty. With 15 minutes to go against Slovenia at 0-0, you just don't have a mental breakdown and start crying. You need to keep tour head in the game. Everyone's looking up to you for support, you need to show strength.
I think he's having a lot of issues dealing with the end of his career. Especially when it hasn't been going very well.
It feels like he's suffering mentally because his body doesn't agree with him, I've never seen him succumb to the pressure like this, in the past he shut everyone down with his performances, but now that he has aged, the pressure has gotten to him.
is this even a topic of conversation? People discussing if someone should cry or not... it's emotions ya'll, just let people cope with stuff their own way,. It's not like he threw a punch at someone or something, he just cried like... wtv
Yeah, imagine missing a penalty on your last euros. And an important one. Its so easy to talk brother. Hes retiring, give him a fking break lol.
@@alibarznji2000 you'd think that the $millions from the Saudi Pro League would soften the blow a little. Time catches up with all of us.
@@Eric_Hunt194 it's not about money, if it was about money, he could've retired 10 years ago.
Due to my work I can’t see the matches so I always like to see the highlights here
probably the worst place to watch the highlights ngl
man France is really gonna limp into the finals aren't they
I am a Portugal supporter as well but ...damn this match was really hard to watch ... Thank god Diego literally saved the day. I love Cristiano but he was mentally totally destroyed and under too much pressure. I hope he learned his lesson and he'll give other players the opportunity to do the free kicks during the next match.
Diogo*
And Ronaldo never gets totally "destroyed", its not what he is. It was not that Ronaldo Kick was a bad one in penalty, simply they had a fantastic keeper. Portugal lacks verticality and explosivity in the front to get through a brickwall. Remember last time Portugal and Spain felt to Morocco, and Spain are the favorites now.
Diogo Costa. That’s it. That’s the comment.
How come you let Mbappe and Grizeman off so lightly but so harsh on Kane and CR7 absolutely ridiculous
Portugal played as I expected, but CR7 and Bruno really disappointed me.
It got really hard to watch 😢
But Diogo Costa was truly Himothy in this match 🔥🔥🔥
I'm sorry Cristiano, please deal with the fact that You're not 30 anymore. Be a team player and come off your high horse. It's very hard to watch him like this
Y cuz he took a couple extra free kicks he probably shouldn’t have?? Overreacting hardcore. He only got 1 or 2 clear chances the entire match and other than that was passing and trying to create when he had the opportunity. Yes he took a few free kicks he shouldn’t have which u could say is selfish, but u really think Bernardo or Bruno gonna score those either?
Nope not hard to watch the 🐐. It’s a privilege to watch this man play football. Just enjoy the last few years my friend.
@@EleazarHernandez2213Im sorry but it is really hard to watch, he is the goat, yes, but hes not as good anymore and it hurts to say, but he shouldnt be starting for portugal anymore (ability wise), if he is a good leader and is needed, then good for him, but if hes playing for the purpose of just being a good baller then idk anymore, love the guy and been an idol since 2003 but I dont want to overlook the facts
Bro how dumb are you ? Ronaldo doesn't help in build up, does not press the opposition defenders and cannot take his chances. He is 39 but acts as if he is 29 and throws a sissy fit if not played the whole 90 mins (which he can't). He is stifling Portugal and is taking up a spot that a much younger striker could and should have taken@@EleazarHernandez2213
ronaldo keeps playing because he is obsessed with messi, simple as that. even if he wins the euros, having 2 euros + nations leagie is not better than 1 world cup + 1 copa america + 1 finalissima. ronaldo needs to win both the euro 2024 and world cup 2026 and hope that messi lose both 2024 copa america and 2026 world cup for ronaldo to become equal than him, if not only slightly better at an international level in terms of achievements.
that's also not considering the 8-5 balon dor deficit, the 6-4 golden boot deficit, and an inferior club and individual trophy haul, as well as a statistical inferiority that he has to messi in all stats outside goals. this guy is delusional beyond belief that he still obsess over a lost cause. he will never be goat.
i wish a competent manager can have the balls to tell him this and retire him because ronaldo is really holding this team back
Where is this hate to Ronaldo coming from? Ronaldo being desperate for a Record? What? Where did you heard that Rabona? If that was true we would not have squared it to Bruno vs Turkey
He was just giving his all and trying his best to give us the win... Just that
And Rafael Leão has done nothing this euro... Wait he did something... Get a match ban for simulation... Awfull
bruno fernandes and bernardo silva should be the main players getting slack for these poor portugal performances throughout the euros as theyre being completely outshined by vitinha who is imo the best player for us these euros, and at the end of the day ronaldo is still a major threat in the box and typically a clinical finisher and clear of any other options we have on the bench (talking about ramos as a pure n9 and jota as a main striker), main problem was certainly martinez changes in the midfield and the wing which literally killed any type of flow and danger we managed to find with that mendes leão left side that was absolutely cooking in the first half, anyway hoping for a way better performance vs france considering there will be a lot more space for our creators and attackers to flourish, love the videos man keep up the good work
It's true, they have been quite poor. Would rather see Bernardo play in the midfield (if Portugal go ahead with 4-3-3), Bruno benched. I'm undecided on who should play on the right.
@@RabonaTV Honestly, playing Cancelo in the wing if Martinez continues going for a 433 (personally, I don't think that's the best formation for the current team). Cancelo has the pace and dribbling skills to actually win 1v1s that Bernardo simply cannot do. Also, playing Bernardo and vitinha both on the midfield feels a bit repetitive no? They are very similar players after all. Would it not be more interesting to have Neves instead of Bernardo to bring a more combative player, in particular considering the France Portugal is going to face?
Ronaldo should stay upfront
Not drop in and not take free kicks that are around the side of the box
Free kick for PT needs to be taken by Silva, Vitinha or Fernandes
I'd say, it depends on the position. None of them are that consistent either, so it's hard to know who's on his A day
It could be taken by Stevie wonder with similar results to Ronaldo.
I didn't watch the Portugal match to go to bed early because I knew exactly how it was going to go and I was right
Cancelo was looking amazing in the second half.
I still wonder how the CB that made the pen wasnt sent out with a second yellow card...
hopefully Portugal doesn't have to play low block opponent now
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the only team that decided to play the game and not park the bus in front of the net, lost 3-0. Portugal is a menace, and the only way to handle them is playing defense. A style of playing that apparently they're not very good at playing against.
They need to either hit Ronaldo better with the long balls or stop doing them all together if he is not able to score them change to low balls Ronaldo drags at least 2 defenders out with him everywhere he goes so it should be easy for the rest to use those holes and spaces to score
@@ritoplsfixclient1667all top teams struggle against parking the bus, hence y it’s so frowned upon.
France is next, and Deschamps loves a low block.
@@PANCHOSWAY No way there is any other answer than taking off Ronaldo in the main lineup and playing him when necessary
That Owen Goal player is a beast
What happened yesterday was unforgivable for martinez. He sabotaged the portugeuse midfield, and then refused to elaborate or do any other sub. When he finaly does, its ruben neves and semedo. Disgraceful. I hope he gets fired whatever the outcome of this euro is.
I actually agree with you!
It was tough watching the Portugal v. Slovenia match, but I sincerely hope the Slovenian supporters and people will take this experience with some positive vibes and hopefully strive to make the next big international tournament soon.
Portugal and England have very similar vibes this tournament against low blocks
You can say what you want to say, and scream out loud: Martinez sucks!
Lets keep it going bro!
I would love to watch a vid about how you would line up Portugal and France before their match
Well, we (PT) made it to quarters. We've exceeded my expectations
Slovenia's game without the ball was amazing. Kind of sucks when no one cares, its always about the great teams not winning by three. Their block was so good, never losing focus and always able to keep going for the all game. It woud be much more interesting if "pundits" coud talk about the acctual game, football wise
Happy Canada Day Adrian
Every single Martinez sub is the weirdest thing. No idea what his plan is.
As a Slovenian I a proud of this team obvously I would have rather lost a little less emberisingly in the shout out. But oh no we lost as the underdog what a shock. If only Šeško didnt fucking shoot on the ground. Just go around him or chip or just aim higher and that other miss hit shoot like cmon and also why did we put Balkovec and Verbič as a 2nd and 3rd pen takers like im fine with Iličić but Balkovec like why its so stupid to have your best player on the 5th pen he should be first not less get some pressure off and did Kek have to get a red card just shut up dont complain also what even happened that he got sent off. And šeško why why just do anything else than shoot low. Good job Portugal beating us on pens u will surely win the Euros now. Like how are u so shit make some damn changes it obviously didnt work.
I was routine for Slovenia then I saw CR7 crying is eyes out and I had to change it up
If england doesn't win I routing for Portugal now the passion changed me
Portugal❤
Força Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹 são Diogo
You’re not real Portuguese, most of us support cristiano and the country no matter what
Portugal stole England's whole flow. Word for Word. Bar for Bar...but then put a Portuguese spin on it by actually winning a penalty shoot out
This Euro is quite boring. I think it's probably the worst of all Euros. Big teams were really struggling and playing more defensively, while there were so many own goals and goals that are incorrectly disallowed by VAR.
When will portugal players have the character and courage to tell ronaldo. No. You will not take another free kick. Look at every team. Theyl all alternate. Not portugal. And you just know every free kick will be going to waste. Just to please ronaldo. Insane
I think Martinez kept Bruno Ronaldo and Bernardo on because they are top penalty takers and it payed off lol
South African keeper Ronwen Williams saved 4 penalties in the last AFCON then 3 in the next game
People need to stop calling teams like Slovenia purposely wanting to draw and parking the bus “playing well” . One team is trying to win, the other isn’t
They tried to win by counter. The two šeško chances were better then anything Portugal had except the penalty. It's about space. If Slovenia leaves lots of space, Portugal can just play their game. Slowenia has players from second divisions and the greek league, they really are a class below portugal. Teams like france and Belgium get rightly critizised for being defensive.
They were though lmao, if they try to play an open game they lose 3 nill
@@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506 yeah a better, more mature šeško wins it imo. Guy reminds me of Hojlund, has a lot of good attributes and potential but is still raw. I think in the next tourney he probably buries at least one of the chances he got.
Either way yeah saying Slovenia played for a draw is ridiculous, those couple of chances were really good. They had some kind of plan going forward, but obviously had to do it on the counter. Undoubtedly the game going to penalties suits them more than Portugal because of the squad quality difference, but to say they didn't try to win is treating Slovenia unfairly. I'm Polish, I've seen actual playing for a draw and not wanting to win... and it ain't that lol
It's literally called tactics, you can't expect to play in the same way as a individually much stronger team and go away with a result. You invite pressure onto yourselves so that you can exploit the spaces when you're able to get the ball back. It's the other team's job to then be able to tactically get through said block, and Portugal showed against Czechia and Georgia they are barely able to get through a low block, so Slovenia took advantage. Portugal literally played in a similar way in 2016 when they won
Usually agree with Adrian, but I don't know what he watched yesterday saying Leao and Vitinha were two of the best on the field. Especially Leao...
Portugal's match went pretty much exactly how I predicted, at least until the extra time and the penalties. I wasn't even mad when I was slotted to work during the first half: at least I was spared 45 minutes of Portugal dreary performance, of them moving at a snail's pace and throwing long balls. I'm happy that we won, with a few epic details, but it shouldn't have been this hard. Respect for Slovenia, but they're not German. Portugal shouldn't have struggled this much!
You actually missed the only decent part of the game lol
I would love to see Ronaldo become a proper supersub but I think he just doesn’t feel like he’s done enough and wants to prove himself. It’s more that he’s not meeting his own expectations and not letting go is his own downfall
You've never played against a deep 442 , it's tough specially with two center backs who are great in the air, i don't get the Ronaldo hate no other player did that much better infront of goal
Ronaldo wasn't worse than Bruno and Bernardo and was better than them in the other 2 games. Mbappe missed ALL his chances for France. He had like 10 good chances and missed them ALL. Oblak is a world class keeper. Ronaldo will shut us up again.
I predicted France to win 1-0 against Belgium
cancelo, vitinha, and mendes have all had very good tournaments vitinha has been conducting and pulling strings with quick progressive passes I yelled at TV when that was first change. After watching england struggle through kane, belgium struggle through lukkaku, and especially portugal struggle again forcing everything through Ronny im genuinely convinced that finances are influencing managing decisions I cant think of any other logical reason.
This is a team like figo and costas generation that can be so hardto defend through prioiritizing best pass is open pass. They have all the tools to break down low blocks in young quick quys with good touch, quick movement like jota, neto, felix, conceicao, and I agree leao actually did well against slovenia. He and ronny are only two that dont press which is other way to get ball in more advanced position so they arent having to break down a block of 11 defenders all behind the ball every damn time. Its so frustrating and as life long fan of benfica and national team im close to forfeiting any hope I could see it again in second consecutive tournament do to same circus and distracions we have had sinice certainly qatar but even 2020/21 euros.
Bom dia amigo, vamos selecao forcaa portugal casa benfica : ) it will get better !!
Portugal vs France: StruggleFest 2024
Cant wait.
I couldn’t believe they started Pepe lol
I love Ronaldo. He is my goat. I truly believe he needs to be bench or get his attitude in check. This is not 2016 anymore and he needs to play as a team and not worry about his own records. Hope he sees that after todays performance and make changes.
He's too full of himself to do that is the sad thing
It’s crazy just how many poor the big teams are this year. All of France, Italy, England and Portugal have looked bad. Only Spain and Germany have been cooking. Austria and Switzerland have looked good too
Yes putting in ramos would completely change this portugal team. Because his insane form of 14 goals in 40 games for psg is crazy. I don’t understand why you disrespect Ronaldo so much as a “Portuguese” whitout cr7 our nation would be nothing
People are just dumb. Ramos is a great CF for a team that presses high. Against Slovenia, just like against Morocco in 2022, the opponent never has the ball, so the pressing ability of Ramos is useless. So you either start Ronaldo or Jota or both in a front 2.
In today's game, the problem wasn't the striker, was the team behind him, which was slow at times. Bruno Fernandos had a fairly bad game for example. Plus the pitch itself was quite bad, which affects the team who plays possession, a lot more than the team who parks the bus.
Against France, sure, maybe Ramos might make sense to start, for his pressing ability. The game is Friday, so some players may not be able to do 90min after playing the full 120 today
Portugal without Ronaldo would still be as good if not better.
Ramos is horrible😂😂😂😂
Ok im portuguese and i thank you for that observation on 7:19....guess im not not alone on that take.
I still think that if kolo muanis shot didn’t get deflected Griezmann would have been there for the tap in
Slovenia needs to go back home and defend for another 90m....I understand the style of play, but I hate it. Bernardo Silva and Bruno Fernandes, again, zero....this game asked for a Felix that plays well in tight spaces and with good first touch. Jota made the difference.
Slovenia has to make that kind of play. Slovenia has a team worth around 140 mil, all players together. So to be competetive to big nations like Portugal, they have to must not let them score. On the other side, goal will be scored if they see the opportunity.
How did Portugal play terribly? Sure there was an issue with the finalizing aspect, as it had been since the beginning, but Portugal played well against a team that had the least possession percentage in the competition, at least, until minute 70. Their focus is defending and they executed it really well. That's why they got this far... by trying to wait for a counter-attack and defending cohesively and being really well organized. Oblak was astounishing on Slovenia's side, but Diogo Costa is simply a beast at keeping...and you can see that at Porto.
As for Rafael Leao, yeah he struggles to find an opening between defense's lines, but with the ball, he's quite fast. On the other hand, I think Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva, weren't that great, actually, they have been mediocre since the beginning of the tournament... and their performance is below par, compared to what we see in club....
Ronaldo's freekicks were quite good, besides the one on the left side...it made no sense for him to try and score... But idk, who would take Ronaldo's turn to score a freekick? Bruno? nah i don't think so... Other than that, I'm not sure what people are expecting from him, he's 39 yrs old, playing his last euro, and frankly, he's doing okayish
Honestly, CR has been one of Portugal's best players this Euro. He is the only one who actually looks like wanting to win the match, all others are more interested in playing a slow, lazy, predictable football. Every time the ball carrier has multiple opponents between him and the closest teammate, everyone except CR looks like they would rather not have qualified.
I happen to like watching people play with a fire to win, so as long as he is the only one showcasing it, he could play till he drops dead
No.
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Ronaldo wanted to make Diogo Costa a euro record LOL (Joking of course) Man what a match as a Portuguese, it was tough to watch Leao needs to stay on, take off Bruno Fernandes, and the Free Kick from almost the corner needs to be either Fernandes, Bernardo , or Vitinha, because My GOD Ronaldo at his prime would've rifled it in. The match against France Martinez has to play his cards right from the starting ling ups to his subs!
Crispin Cole ass haircut 😭😭
Thank you
Do you not cover copa america?
The real horror would have been Slovenia reaching the 1/4 finals with 4 draws. It's insane what's those "best" third placed teams are doing to the tournament in terms of quality and standards. Diogo Costa may well turn out to be Portugal's best ever GK: before there was Ricardo and Rui Patricio who excelled in shootouts but were unreliable in the game itself.
The Portugal Euro 2016 path.
It was crazy!! The number of people hate watching was crazy😂
A. Silva was crucified because of his errors, wonder if Pepe will get even half the heat Silva got. In a KO game...
If Portugal wants to win they have to make their team in the best interest of the team and not in the best interest of Ronaldo. Ronaldo needs to understand that younger players need to shine and he should be benched at start and brought only at the 2nd half for moral boost.
You are clearly clueless, sir
@@EuropeanPOW do you remember in the wc 2022 when Ronaldo failed to score a non penalty goal up to the switzerland round of 16 when Goncalo Ramos took his place and scored a hattrick.
@@Altino4 Nope
Big Ron 🤝 Big Rom
If mbappe is favouring the left wing in this tournament, really makes you wonder what Madrid will do with him and vini
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DioGoat Costa 🐐🥅🏆
I'll probably get hate for this but I can't help but feel that Portugal would be a more fluid and dangerous attacking side without Ronaldo starting and instead being used as an impact sub. So many of their attacking forays throughout the tournament end up with little threat and resorting to constantly feeding him balls in. A team with this much attacking talent should not be playing so poorly and Martinez deserves blame for his tactics but hey I guess they're through to the quarters and that's all that matters but I can't see. Can't see them beating France despite them also being unimpressive though
Portuguese here, and most of us agree with you, but it's worse than you think. The coaches that are selected for international tournaments in Portugal are the ones that let CR7 play, regardless of how his form is. Even 2 years ago, the team looked stronger when CR7 was on the bench. Fernando Santos, bad as he was as a coach, eventually understood that. And when he finally realized it, he got immediately replaced, because the higher ups would rather profit from Ronaldo's presence in the field than actually care about winning internationally
It’s easy guys you let the 🐐 play and start until he retires. It’s an honor to watch him play really guys we will probably never see a player like this in our lifetime
@@diogobarreto1013Fernando Santos benched Ronaldo against Morocco and look where it got us. People will hate on Ronaldo just for the sake of it, and will come with the craziest excuses to do so. The team has had problems with Ronaldo on the pitch, and with him on the bench. Different games, different stories. Portugal plays better against teams that play open minded football, and struggles against teams that park the bus, and it's no differemt between the different striker options
It wouldn't. Against teams that park the bus, the striker rarely has any influence on the fluidity of the team. Those teams are literaly prepared to limit the attacking ability of the stronger opponent, with little to no space for the striker. Changing Ronaldo for Ramos makes no difference. To have a more fluid attack, players in the midfield and on the wings, need to move the ball faster
@@diogobarreto1013So the Portuguese too want Ronaldo benched?!
anyone can have a off day, why not cristiano ronaldo robana tv?
The change they need to make is to use Ronaldo more as decoy sometimes - they don't seem to have the character to do it.
Ronaldo playing for Portugal that will be huge positive for France I guess … I don’t understand why they took him to Germany