Match thread - World Cup 2026: Portugal vs Congo DR

Araujo's best play was his yellow card.

 

Lol first thing you think about after the game is me, what a phaggot

 

I am utterly gutted, what the hell was that. How were they not shooting.

 

They actually did not generate a shot on goal outside of the opening goal. This went even worse than I expected it go be.

 

Seen this movie many times, team is buying into their own hype.

Martinez is an absolute dud though, truly baffling hire that was.

 

Yeah man, Martinez got Portugal through qualifiers, what more do people want?!

 

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Love CR7 but this is a problem, Bruno wide open and he took that chance from him

 

Gotta indulge his fantasy that he’s better than Messi. Guaranteed yesterday ********ed with his head too.

 

I mean, first off. It's the first game. Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia in the opener and won the World Cup so you could very well eat your words or I could very well eat mine.

Either way doesn't change that @Caldo Verde is such a phaggot he's been literally waiting to post a gotcha that his first post immediately after the game shows he's been thinking about me this whole time. Literally cannot get gayer than that but hey gays are welcome here too. Just didn't know the guy was a homosexual.

 

same old shit. "best midfield" in the world just passing backwards.... our 41yr old played 96 minutes. Neto having the worst season of his life and he gets the start..... this realistically is the best case scenario. Hopefully we wake up.

 

The people continuing to defend Ronaldo is pretty gay tbf

 

Relax guys, it's game 1... Spain was crap, Portugal was alright. Argentina loss game one 4 years ago... RELAX!!!! Ronaldo it's not his fault, stop blaming him for FS. He had bad passes all game and not even in scoring positions. Blame the coach for playing this pass 100000x back to the goalie... This isn't Portugal's game or style... If it works in the end, sure, we'll be happy if not, coach is out!!! Portugal is small, with speed, use it...

 

50 passes to go up the field, walk up slowly to the edge of the box and then pass backwards and sideways another 50 times.

Unbelievable how toothless we were in attack. Nobody trying anything.

I’m not a big fan of him, but Joao Felix should start next game. The only attacker who will actually try something around the box.

 

No dipshit, I saw your pathetic posts blaming the "preparation" as if that's why they play the way they did today.

What happened was EXACTLY what I predicted would happen and how they played is EXACTLY how I described them under Martinez. And you had the nerve to talk down to me as if I was an idiot for criticizing Martinez.

Now ******** off.

 

Spain wasn’t crap though, obviously they should’ve done better, but they attacked and had multiple shots on goal and any other day they would’ve won. Can’t same the same for Portugal.

 

Ronaldo and his fanboys are living a humiliation ritual at this point.

 

Oh that's your problem, a feeling of intellectual inferiority. Well, I never thought you were an idiot nor think it, so if that's what you felt, that's a you problem buddy.

And criticism of the preparation inherently includes criticism of the coach, clearly.

Go have your mom make you some warm leite for you to calm down, Mr. Self-professed Nostradamus.

 

All you have to do is drop Ronaldo and half the problems with the team are fixed, even with such a useless gimp of a manager. That's literally all you have to do.

 

Ronaldo should not have playeds the full game but there were 3 centre backs on him whenever he was in the box, which left space for Bruno and others to try and go in and take some damn shots. I don't think Ramos would have made any difference in this game. I am all for not having Ronaldo start games but he was double and triple teamed all game and yet Portugal wouldn't adjust and use that to their advantage. Congo focused on stoping ronaldo, how Martinez didn't notice that and switch things up is beyond me.

 

I’m actually sold now. I’m all set with Ronaldo starting. Please bench him vs Uzbekistan holy sh*t.. We are royally screwed if we don’t win that game..

 

lol you numpties say this like Messi, Haaland, Mbappe, etc aren’t all treated similarly. The difference is they move and make space and create for others which creates openings which allows for a flow of game. Ronaldo sits there and expects the ball to fall to his feet so he can tap it in.

 

They can pretty much kiss first place goodbye as well. They're not beating Colombia.

 

Dang after the first goal and the control leading to it, I was pumped but...rest is history lol

 

First game… and y’all are panicking. Lol!

what I do…

Trincao/Guedes/Leao should start.
Silva is not a winger ffs.
Defense is fine but Tomas, meh!

The result I’m not surprised, romar isn’t great tactically and other teams are going to play stubborn futebol.

Also uzeb is a tough team too. We’re cooked it Romar doesn’t change tactics.