PORTUGAL VS MEXICO 2017 FIFA CONFEDERATIONS CUP MATCH FOR 3RD PLACE[R]

Game over. 3rd Place.......

 

Was it a clear penalty?

 

Entertaining game both teams went hard out and it's only for 3rd place ..

 

One of the best 3rd place game I have watched, but Mexico vs Portugal games are always good, we match up perfectly.

 

The Spanish broadcast was saying penalty maybe it was because they where mexican idk.

This Portugal team needs an influx of young talent.

 

Didn't watch the game but you gotta the passion Pepe shows. You can tell this man loves Portugal.

 

I have to admit, Eliseu did a solid job filling in. I hope one of the main things Santos took away from this, is Nani and Moutinho are no longer an option.

 

I agree, Pizzi is good in Portugal against weak teams, but he has no business being in the national team. Andre Silva still has to come a long way, but he's only 21 I think people are expecting too much from him at this point. Nelson Semedo is no match to Cedric, he didn't look himself.
I think Neto did a good game, he was unfortunate on that OG. Eliseu quiet lots of people. Pepe is more instrumental than CR7, IMO. It's the end of line for Moutinho, Quaresma and Nani.
Overall, even with a second line team Portugal proved to be much better that a first-choice but crappy mexican side. Still, we wasted too many chances, including a PK. Mexico nearly won the game without doing nearly anything. A loss to mexico would have been as humiliating as unfair. Fortunately, the players didn't give up and were fairly rewarded with the 3rd place.

 

The mexican telecaster on Fox sports sounds like he's intellectually challenged.

 

The most unlikely hero's in Pepe and Adrien Silva got it done for Portugal

 

Pizzi was not good but he had energy and ran around a lot a bit like Adrien B (as in not as good). Killer penalty from Adrien, remember when people were doubting him, a very useful player who always gives 100%.

Semedo was also a disappointment but then I though Cédric a year ago was not that good either, he has come on nicely and Semedo will do the same and has bigger potential, in my opinion.

Eliseu, has kept on confounding his critics including me, good display, fine acting skills not as good as...

Pepe, what a monster, best CB in the last decade? Garra

Patricio, Mexico's goal was on him not Neto, basically Patricio did a dummy on the goal line, fine display otherwise.

Neto, ok better than Fonte right now.

Quaresma, super-sub extraordinaire


I personally, think we had a very good tournament, we only lost to Chile on penalties and they are double South American champions and only lost in the last WC on penalties. We finished on a high, Santos has made us a team that never gives up, we must never lose this edge and it must become a given for our Seleção long after Santos is gone.

 

We could not ask more from Eliseu. He got the job done and proved his haters (myself) included, wrong.

Patricio was the man of the match. He made all kinds of saves today. Kept us in in.

Pepe was once again a beast. Great defending and tied it up too.

 

21 competive matches and one defeat. A defeat that came in a game without Ronaldo away to a decent squad that we still outplayed. They may hate us, but this team won't be easily defeated by anyone.

 

Weird, weird game. Both teams went out hard from the start (weird for a 3rd place game). We dominated throughout the game until they scored. We had chance after chance after chance and couldn't score. Then, when we were playing like crap we score 2 goals...
Nani was the worst on the pitch by a mile. Not only did he miss point blank headers from the 6-yard box twice (!) but we lost the ball over and over again.
Quaresma was also in "bad Q" mode when he came in. He was absolutely garbage until he finally decided to take it seriously for one good cross that Pepe unbelievably managed to get to.
The rest of the team was petty decent except the finishing was abysmal. Pizzi easy shot from the middle of the box completely uncovered - misses the goal. Couldn't believe it. Gelson's header from the 6 yard box was at least on target ... but right at the goalie. Later, controls a nice pass from Andre Silva but slices it horribly when a simple shot across goal would have be a likely goal (i.e. Nani was wide open for rebound). Nani... needs to see a shrink.
Patricio played great. I don't blame him on the goal - tricky always when the striker has a shot at a crossed ball like that. That save in the 1st half against Chicarito was world class and he saved another ~2-3 one-on-ones in the 2nd half because of how quickly he came out. Very good game.
Pepe was great too. Absolute clutch goal - and not an easy one either - my son said he looked like Zlatan out there. Got a little lucky on that push that could have been a PK but it was a veteran move - enough contact to mess with the striker but not so much as to give ref an easy choice. With review, however, I wonder what would have happened...

 

Anyone seeing the final? Chile has been the better team in this match but they're about to lose the final to Germany 1-0

 

Yes Chili had more opportunities enough to have scored more than 1 goal. Germany did the kind of game I was expecting Portugal to do, except they managed to score 1. Interesting also how the telecasters were praising Germany's "pragmatism", and how ball possession "is a misleading statistic". In different games, with different opponents the same telecasters spoke differently about having a defensive approach to the game.

 

It was. A gift. Other than that, the Germans weren't able to create too many chances. Yet, the general opinion will always be biased in their favor.