Roberto Martínez and Cristiano Ronaldo worked together to finally beat Germany after years of waiting.
Could this Portugal side go on to win the Nations League? And how important is the competition to the fans?
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Great video as always! Could you guys make a video on Juventus under Tudor once the Club World Cup ends and (hopefully) Juve brings in the missing pieces? I’m curious about your take on his tactics, players like Yildiz, Thuram, Locatelli, Conceicao, Bremer, and how all the Serie A changes (like Modrić joining) might shape an exciting season.
Following on Spotify since last year, didn't know this program was on YouTube as well, nice to put a face to the voice…. Great analysis as always
Do you people ever watch the games, just because in the euro's knockout stages he didn't score you make it out to be he played bad, did you see how bad the rest of the team especially midfield and the forwards played like shit continuously with back passing the ball back to there zone & deny Ronaldo serve as he would make the runs. Ronaldo was rated in most of games best on the pitch while Ramos when he was on the pitch looked like a chicken without a head without any on the pitch awareness. Ever wonder why Ramos is a bench player for PSG and not a starter while Ronaldo who wins the golden boot in Saudi also the wins the worlds top scorer, but yet you 🤡s want to put Ramos over Ronaldo as a starter for PortugalSeriously
i think most of the commenters of ronaldo in the national team have to understand 3 things – and i speak as a portuguese benfica fan, and we are known to not like ronaldo :
1) there are not that many actual options for that particular position. Portugal produces a good number of quite good defenders , midfielders, wingers, but not many forwards. So times while listening to many people commeting outside portugual one gets the impression that there are multiple options for that particular role. That is not true . If you look at the teams in the portuguese league, all central forwards that play regularly cannot play in the portuguese team due to the fact they are not portuguese. in the last 4 or so years, there were 2 central forwards with national team potential, Ramos and Henrique Araújo.
2) Ramos had multiple physical issues and was not available to play with any sort of consistency for 6 months. Henrique Araújo has been doing a bad season for like 2 years now. Outside of those 2, any other possible option is either too young and inexperienced (like 2nd division experience) or it will be an adaption, that lacks either heading abilities, shooting abilities, physical capacity or a mix of that.
3) every time ronaldo didnt play, the team lacked killer instinct. And in many games it didnt matter if the forward was ronaldo or not, the ball was not getting to the front in any sort of decent condition.
As such while I do not like ronaldo that much, I can understand why martinez had to use – and abuse – cristiano.
Awesome vid!
Goncalo Ramos, they guy that can't even get into the PSG team, i supposed to replace Ronaldo? yeah you're immensely moronic. Ramos is not a good player, and nowhere near what Ronaldo still is even at 40.
The Nations League is factually harder to win than the Copa America. If the nations league is useless, the copa america is even more useless. Compare the teams messi beat to win the Copa last time, vs the teams Ronaldo will have to beat to win this nations league.