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

I feel the same about England!!!

 

Don't forget about Terry and Ferdinand neither.

 

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Yuppers.

We had some great crosses but nobody in the box!!! You can cross all day, if nobody is there you won't get goals!

 

I haven't!!! But i didn't want to rub it in.

 

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Did you guys see that last little cross by Simao in the box that went right past the far post, and you saw Postiga just there, holding his legs. I sure hope we wasn't doing that when the ball hit the floor.

 

why do they insist on coming into our forums?

 

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yeah...it was always headed away, those beautiful crosses...

LOUSY PKs!!!!! AHHHHH!

i still can't believe it

 

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We can talk about that PK for years bud, but in the end, we could not score. We have no one to blame but ourselves. We had our chances.

 

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quaresma wouldnt have done anything for our NT..... you know why


he wouldnt of played... if he played he would of done something but this wasnt a lack of crossing. it was a lack of goals. who do i blame it on, well the team in general, pauleta didnt really have the chance everytime he got the ball, which was rare, he had guys covering him. this was the only game we did bad this one and england. what was the main problem the england game deco wasnt their which equals no brains in the heart of the mid. no short balls played threw to pauleta. this last game well everyone was hyping decos return it must have gotten to him he was invisible. so therefore no more short balls played towards pauleta and deco was playing too far back. a good strategy would be when the balls on on the wings get pauleta deco and the other wings of the other side right in the box. that didnt happen we didnt score. plain and simple.

 

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france had thier chances to score honestly as well, but they didnt.

they failed the same way we did. give us a penalty kick and we'd have tied the game.

the call for a PK was totally bogus.

 

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I hear you. Im not saying that France deserved the win, Im saying that we did nothing to help our cause. On many occasions during the game, I saw so many long crosses from us that I thought we were England ??? We had chances for quick counter attacks and what did we do ? Slowed up in order to set up ????? What happened to attacking them through the middle with short quick passes ? We had zero creativity. Why were our midfield staying so far back when we were attacking ?

I did not see much that overly impressed me from France. Im not giving them credit so much as Im dissappointed in ourselves.

 

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They are showing England's team highlights on BBC.
TO, we demand a pic of John TERRYbly unhappy

 

I enjoy it when he plays vs Arsenal just to see your defenders drop like flies after he makes them look like pylons

 

Do you now, in recent times is so rare Portugal lose, than when this appens here they are in force. The english are trying to win us for a long time, and dutch too. So if I was english or Dutch, I will be pissed too .

 

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The importance of Quaresma would had been showned in games like we had against Holland, England and France, most of our opponents wouldn´t know him that much thus neglecting him and giving him space, unlike what they did when they saw Figo, CRonaldo, or Simão stepping in the picth.
Obviously he wouldn´t be a starter but could have been more usefull than Boa Morte who was called and used for what 15 minutes?
The same goes for Hugo Almeida, a huge player with strong presence in the area that would had been very usefull yesterday against France, instead of Postiga, or Nuno Gomes who played 10 minutes? against Mexico.

Anyway this were 2 possibilities, for the so called plan B, the one we missed yesterday and the one i knew we should have if we started losing.

 

So is he being carded or not?

 

ITV Sport is showing how its like 2B a Gunner. W-H-A-T a game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U_dW8iDWc8&search=Ronaldo%2Barsenal

 

You wouldn't be trying to pressure BS into giving me a yellow card now, would you?

English people never do that. They are too honest.

 

loollooloooooll. And are this guys who call as cheaters. lol!

 

Well, I'm sorry, but I've spent a lot of time on BS since the loss yesterday (I've got the damn flu), and i've had to put up with reading things, that if they were said about blacks or jews, for example, there would be no tolerance for it.

I'll take my yellow card like a man, knowing that Dutch Master is a worm.