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    29 Comments

    1. D VDV on

      0:14 "Belgium were the favorite".

      Wait what? Says who? 😅 That game was impossible to predict, it could have gone either side.

    2. Kamui on

      Look how Ronaldo always help Portugal down the wing, Andre Silva would be a good choice than Jota so Ronaldo can help to create chance and Andre Silva in penalty box.

    3. Kamui on

      Portugal main problem is their formation, defending and attacking weak, with that attacking talent they should've score more than they are now(7 goals above)

    4. Limon Score on

      Would have been interesting if Portugal scored and Belgium actually had to score another goal. Would they change their playstyle or just go for luck/penaltys/individual class. Maybe both attemps could work

    5. Kamui on

      People who saying Portugal is unlucky know nothing about football, if Portugal play well they should've create more chances than 4 shot on target, Portugal is weak in final third

    13. AerisTheAngelk on

      Don't forget about the terrible referee job, Portugal should have gotten a ton more cards even 1-2 red cards. That would change the game completely. A by not being able to stop Belgium's counterattacks or unable to do those dirty fouls.

    16. Joe Schmoe on

      I don’t think it was lucky. Belgium made their chances and put one in. If you don’t convert your chances you deserve to lose. It’s not like Portugal don’t have the quality up top to score, they just didn’t make their goals. Shooting is part of the game. Look at what happened to Germany – 1v1 with Keeper twice = no goals, deserved loss.

    18. Jack Johnson on

      All group f teams went home because there group was a very unfair group compared to the rest that group was made up like a last 4 group fighting jus to make it out this group was stress jus watch Belgium 🇧🇪and etc group's they could of put Germany and Portugal or Germany and France 🇫🇷 same group with other teams like Ukraine and hungry this was a set up to make Belgium or Italy or a even a small nation win something

    22. Florent Chif on

      Oh my god, what a weak and biased conclusion. How can you judge Belgium chance against Italy as it will be a total different game? Also, this game was just an exception, for both team. They both knew it was 50 50. Belgium scored first, then Portugal starting to press like never. As you said, POrtugal starting to play in 343, and even at the end it was a 2 5 3. When you have such a team attacking in 2 5 3, with fatigue and all of that, how can you play good football? Especially that BElgium NEVER defends like that normally. It was just a fucking exception, thanks to Portugal pressure.

      On another level, I would like to say that some portuguese were very aggrasive and they sent Debruyne out, and stopped a lot of counter attack. Because they knew that it was their only solution, to play dirty. And they did, and the referee did not help Belgium about that. You play the same game, a little bit less dirty or with a good referee and your conclusion would be "Italy can shit in their pants".

      You see what you want to see. Your analysis is good but is only DESCRIPTIVE, and your conclusions are really bad and biased.

    23. TommyThuyen on

      Germany won FIFA WC 2014 and France won FIFA WC 2018 will change their head coach after Euro 2020.

      When will Portugal change the head coach ?

    26. Thomas H. on

      Portugal was not dangerous , Belgium defend well,focus and hard work. and dnt forget Hazard,KDB and Witzel are not at 100%, belgium won playing bad but won so imagine Belgium fit at 100%!

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