2006 World Cup: Semi-Finals - Portugal x France [R]

This pretty much sums up how you generally beat your opponents....

http://www.bubblewrap.tv/episodes.jsp?episodeId=2121

 

Why don't you shut up then??????????

 

Its hard to loose by a penalty to France again, on semifinals, after Euro 84 and Euro 2000, these last after extra time. It's our french dilema, what can we do?
But guys, Its clear that we can also win sometimes to other nations and make the pain go elsewhere, for instance:
1) 2002, we were able to KO Holland from the WC in the qualifying stages;
2) Euro 04, Holland in the 1/4 finals;
3) WC 2006, Holland in the 1/8 finals.
4) Euro 08... a matter of time

Cheaters or not, least we will always have this beutiful Atlatic Cost to dive in. And that may very well be other countries dilema!

Força Portugal!

 

That's probably where you practice your skills

 

Because Portugal are still playing...you can't be that dumb...can you?

 

For what? 3rd/4th place?? Might as well go home instead of bothering the world with more diving & cheating.

 

Awww... he's upset.

You want a little lolly pop? It still hurts that bad? Maybe someday Holland will be as good as Portugal...

Who am I kidding, that day will never come, because you'll all be too busy bitching about another team's lack of fair-play when your team is the instigator.

Notice how the number of cards went down so much when Holland went out...

 

Holland stole our plane.

 

Oh... So is that why Holland went home early? Makes sense.

 

Sorry mate, we only fly business class in proper planes. Not some rusty old Soviet plane.

 

Was there even any point in you posting that? That was one of the worst comebacks ever in the history of trolls on this forum.

And I thought you were good... you're over-rated. You're a troll? Pfft.

 

Damn, I always thought the Portuguese were hospitable. Silly me But hey, I'm a smart guy and I'll save some for later

 

I think we shall not be too upset about yesterday´s match. Sad, of course, but not pissed of. It was a balanced match and our guys fought as hard as they could… I guess that for this time, Domenech was smarter than Scolari. Our players spend the days before the match saying that we would beat France by playing though the wings and the French coach planted 2 guys to mark Ronaldo and other two to mark Figo.

As to the penalty, I am still not sure whether the contact was enough to trip Henry. Ref awarded and, well, not much we can do about it. Reasons for the defeat, IMO:

1 – Deco underperformed
2 – Pauleta was not even there…
3 – Scolari did not had a “B Plan” (this was the first time in the tournament that found ourselves trailing).

One last note: just leave the pathetic dutch poster alone. Probably just a prostitute killing time to go to work on the red light district. When I think of holland, I think of hookers… I wonder why… You know, dutch people visit the bordellos on a daily basis, either to work or just to say hi to their mummies…

 

Finally the voice of reason.....after 6 pages of pure crap a post worth reading.

It was a penalty, change the jerseys around and everyone here would agree..........lets not let the pride of a nation get in a way of making a rational call. Did Henry enbelish...yes...but he was touched, and if it was Figo or Ronaldo they would have gone down 2.

Remember Figo's penalty against IRAN???? Same type of play as this one....so lets be honest.

Plus Portugal didn't lose this game because of that penalty, they lost because they weren't able to create spaces in the midfield and they were unable to score!!!

Cmon guys, we reached the semis with 6 goals scored in 6 games.......that is not enough for a team who dreams of winning a world cup.

 

The word of the prophet TODevils

I agree with everything you said but it does suck to lose on a penalty which could of easilly not been a penalty with all the diving that was going on in the game

 

My thoughts on yesterday:

No drama whatsoever. We lost with a penalty that if was in the froggie's box would have NEVER been whistled. Yes, it's a penalty, and yes Henry showed the world how much of a bloody drama queen that resorts to get himself on all fours after a ballet twist he is. He was owned by our back four.
In the 78th (?) m Sagnol chokes Ronaldo with an elbow over the chest, from behind. Crystal clear, but it was after at least four stupid dives. Cry wolf classic. (With nil nil Pauleta is pushed in the box by a frog to prevent him shooting a Barthez rebound; it was maybe the ninth minute; to this one, there's no explanation).
The rest of the game: total stats, possession and overall display of talent for us, the froggies reduced to their box (even if their intentions weren't that, just look at their subs). No goal in an hour of play. Dejá vu, people.
We must win the third place final. Give airplay to the B team, they can do it and leave us all something to remember. That officializes our third European spot meaning we're the 21 st century owners of the english and the dutch, regardless (to the unconverted please check also club clashes. Thank you).
If only all of us strived to take this quantum jump into other areas...


Notes on players:

Zidane. Tamed.
Thuram. France's best man.
Ribéry. Don't believe the hype.

Ricardo. He even touched the bloody ball
Valente. Superb.
Ronaldo. Much more feared than anybody at this point. Great game.

 

They where playing for a spot in the World Cup final and I do agree that Henry hit Carvalho foot, but the ref should have let the play go. I hate to see the semifinal decdided on a questionable penalty. The game was only 32 minutes old and the game was even. I could understand if the French was losing and the play occured late in the game then it should be called.

 

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/column...=worldcup&cc=5901&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1

Article praising this Portuguese side.

 

That is an outstanding article...thanks for the find...

You should post this link in the World Cup forum...

Nice to read something positive...for a change

 

I always knew the French have class fans... When my son gets older I'm going to take him to a french league game. I love the french passion...Good Luck in the final

 

You're way off-base here. Use your heads people.

 

Very refreshing article. Thank you.

 

Agreed, that was uncalled for.

 

Portugal and France have long ties. Many of the Portuguese play in League 1 of course, most noteably, the great Pauletta. Also there are huge Portuguese imigrant neighborhoods across France.

No need for Football to bring out the worst in all of us. Just a stupid game in the larger scheme of things.

I do have a great deal of respect for Portugals Golden generation, and it certainly seems that the future is no less bright.