Portugal takes on panama august 15 In a friendly. CalluPs should be announced tomorrow Expect Paulo bento to call up Some new faces
official callups announced goalkeepers- quim, patricio, beto defence- pepe, ricardo costa, rolando, joao pereira, coentrao, cancelo midfield- meireles, martins, nuno assis, marco lopes, manuel fernandes, sergio oliveira forwards- vaz te, nuno gomes, ronaldo, bruma, varela, marco lopes, nelson oliveira
Official? That looks nothing official if you ask me. I certainly hope it's not, Cancelo, Nuno Assis, Marcos Lopes, Sérgio Oliveira, Bruma? It would be the most awful call up I've ever seen.
It's a fake. The official call-up is this. The same Euro team + Carlos Martins, - Quaresma. http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=346406
Pepe, Bruno Alves, and Custodio out, Nuno andre Coelho, Sereno, and Andre Santos in. CB is going to be a horror movie
---------------------Eduardo-------------------- -----------Rolando---------Ricardo Costs-------- Lopes-----------------------------------------Coentrao -------------Meireles-------------Moutinho---------- -Nani------------------Viana-------------------Ronaldo ---------------------Nelson Oliveira---------------------
Happy to see Nelo starting up top! I figured the CB's would be Rolando & Costa. Happy to see Lopes on the right! Viana is a surprising choice though.
RTP isn't giving the game and none of the links on firstrowsports is working. Link to the game anyone?
Nelson OOOOOOOOO!!! What a goal. 1-0 4th shot and It goes finally goes in. And there was an uncalled PK on him a minute prior.
Hugo Viana has been so poor. Lazy, slow, poor in possession..no place on this team. Nelson Oliveira just missed a sitter on a brilliant pass by Ronaldo, but his goal was fantastic. The way he dropped his shoulder, checked his turn, and then skipped by 2 tackles to hammer it top corner from the top of the box on his left was encouraging..he realized a relative weakness of his*(left foot) and obviously worked on it...its much more powerful and nearer the target then at the euro. Should be up by 2/3...Canada can take atleast 4 points from this very beatable Panama team. Carlos Martins/Veloso on for Viana.
Hugo Almeida might just be the worst striker in the history of the Portuguese National Team...he's been brutal, as always.
Truer words have never been spoken, abysmal...a hattrick of sure goals missed. Ruben Miceal is just as bad....God. Almeida, Miceal, Viana...out the door por favor and never come back.
Proud of this team , tears in my eyes Viva portugal! Can't wait for qualifiers Nice goals by Ronaldo and Nelson
The D didn't have much to do. Coentrao was his usual fantastic self. Miguel Lopes was incredibly impressive, should definitely give JP a tough competition going forward for the RB job. Viana was horrible, no place on this team indeed. Lazy and slow for sure. He did have one nice through ball but he's a poor man's Moutinho when passing without the work ethic. Moutinho was fantastic as always. Micael is our best reserve CM in my opinion (not counting Veloso who is a starter over Viana). Nelo was a little too inconsistent but that was a beautiful goal! Hope he keeps it up, he needs to score goals to become our permanent starter because Almeida is just horrible, wow I can't believe he's a STRIKER looking at the chances he missed today; Postiga is better than Almeida.
Carlos Martins > R. Micael also from what I have seen so far of Sporting this season, I think Cedric (RB) has a chance of winning a spot on the NT within the next two years, also Adrien has looked pretty impressive at times in pre season, he has work rate and passing ability similar to moutinho. good to see Nelson Oliveira score Portugal has 5 games left in 2012 September 7 & 11 WC14 Q = Luxembourg Away, Azerbaijan home October 12, 16th WC 14 Q = Russia Away, N. Ireland Home November 14 Friendly = Gabon Away Except for Russia away, all these games should be won comfortably. Nelson has a chance to score a couple more goals before 2012 is out and gain confidence. Would also like to see Ronaldo smash a few more goals in, if he keeps it up he could go into WC 2014 as Portugal's record goal scorer at the age of 29 which would be epic.