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If Portugal wins the World Cup and the Ronaldo fans claim he's better than Messi for sitting on the bench the entire tournament, it will be football injustice!
If a team plays better without 🐐, it's not a 🐐
Santos owes everything to CR7. Without the GOAT refusing to lose against Hungary, there would not be any EURO2016. Without the GOAT hat-trick against Spain in the WC2018..Santos would have been out of a job. CR7 led them in scoring in the qualifiers. In those pressurized situations, CR7 bailed Portugal over and over. Santos should never forget that.
A team really plays better when the childish Rejectnaldo is on the bench.
You can ask Man United and Portugal to confirm that.
Factos.
We like it when people sleep on us, we're use to it.
Bring on anybody, only true Portuguese fans backed our team and knew we will go far.
Uruguay, Ghana and South Koreas teams were nowhere near as talented as we are.
The handbrake that was taken off was CR7 being benched.
A team can score many goals and the next game score 0 goal
Pessidogs 💩
Still have trouble seeing Leão on the bench
No bold call, It was all part of their strategy 🤦🏻♂️ Ronaldo doesn’t care for being a sub. He knows he’s old , but still deadly. Their group stage team was their sub team to conserve the starters for the elimination games. Just look at the game against Nigeria.
This is just genius from Fernando Santos to throw off other coaches, plus having Ronaldo as a Super sub is his best role. Imagine seeing defenders, giving their all, and seeing Ronaldo come on in the 60th/70th min along side Goncalo Ramos, absolute nightmare!
Idiotic analysts who think Ronaldo can’t be a threat in any team as a super sub in the final 3rd 🤦🏻♂️
I support Santos not playing ronaldo as a starter in all these games as a tactic. You cannot start ronaldo expect him to play full 90 or 120 mins and penalties after. Better you start ramos and bring in ronaldo late so if you go to extra time or penalty shootout .he will be more worthy. All remaining games ramos should start.
"Said it was a tactical decision"? Sure, but it was only allowed because of Ronaldo's petulance. It's a smart tactic to bench him, but fanboys are against it; his own actions allowed it.
I've been saying this since the start.. Portugal has the best squad since the world cup in 2006. Everyone was underestimating Portugal
You guys disrespect Portugal all the time. Everybody does.
these'pundits' are absolutly nothiung but fangirls.they fangirl over messi and argentitna then when they fail they act like its a suporise. i have ben saying portugal is my poick for winner of worlkd cup for awhile
Lol at these ronaldo hating cringelords. 2xFifa best player, 5x ballon d'or, 4x uefa best player, 1 puskas, 19x top goalscorer, 1x european champion, 1 Nations league, 5x UCL winner, 3x Premier league champion, 2x La liga champion, 2x Serie a champion. Last year he carried Uniteds first half of the season, and this year he carried portugal's WC qualifiers, and got nominated for the ballon d'or. Hit him now that he's down, really shows your character.
edit: casually forgot 5x golden boots lol
As a brazilian , I am really happy for Portugal. I hope we see each other in the final somehow.
People don’t think anything other than Cristiano for 🇵🇹 santos just received the call from ten hag last night. This is scary.
Sleeping lol they have always been better then England the last 20years but England always over hyped ,overated
After sitting on the bench almost entire game. Ronaldo: I don’t have respect to Portugal coach. Portugal disrespected me.
Goncalo Ramos better than darwin nunez, Liverpool you signed the wrong one.
Your hate blinded you. And I know you won't change because your hate is still there.
I think Switzerland prepared to face Ronaldo and then got Gonçalo Ramos who they didn't know so well.
Never Underestimate Portugal Dude. And by the way, since when, Switzerland, was ever better in Soccer than Portugal ? 🤣 Do some history research between these 2 teams.
You Brits always underestimate Portugal on Soccer. Then you get them, and you always get nailed, on penalty shots. I thing in the last encounter, even the Portuguese Goalkeeper nailed the brits scoring big time ahahahahah
What a enjoyable final it would be if we get Brazil v Portugal? Free flowing, technical football free both sides.
I keep saying Portugal is the best National team their starting eleven plus bench is full of great players.
Please sign felix united.
Give some respect to my boy Felix also he is great,, not forget either with the like of bruno, silva, pepe, dalot, these are the key💪
Cake on your face again, espn
Finally someone that can properly pronounce the Portuguese names 🇵🇹
LME tries but cannot hide his disdain for Portugal and is absolutely relishing in the fact that Ronaldo had nothing to do with their stellar performance today. The rare compliment to Portugal today was ONLY given to further offend and jab at Ronaldo.
Portugal has such squad depth that they cab afford to lose injured Jota and Mendes and leave Guedes, Sanches and a group of European based defenders at home
Ok, Luis Miguel Echegaray – STOP SHOUTING!!!. and turn up your microphone so you don't sound lower than everyone else.
Come talk to me luis! Stop hating man and be professional South American garbage
there is a case to be made for all the teams that remain now, including Portugal. Exciting Quarters ahead
What's up with his mouth?
I don't think anyone has been sleeping on Portugal, in fairness they haven't showed that level of performance before in this tournament becos of he who shall not be named. Not that they've pivoted, they've shown their true colours and I'm here for it.
Tell you all about how Ronaldo was holding this world class team. Keep him on the bench and they'll steamroll their way to finals
cr7 need to be the big man and give way to the rest of the portugal team. even if it means watching from bench
Ronaldo is done for. Age catches up eventually. Gheez. Why not just put Pele out there.
Ronaldo will give Worldcup to Portugal this time
God willing, Morocco will play the final match…Believe in yourselves a little bit…we have eliminated Belgium and Spain…what more do you want to believe that we are now competing for the title…the time has come for Africa to say its word..the time has come The time of Morocco… The ball will not continue forever, the monopoly of the Europeans and the Latins… Review the theories of the philosopher Hegel in dialectics in order to understand the movement of man, days, nations and phenomena in history
We will defeat you, O Portuguese..It is the time of Morocco..Your team is very ordinary…Your defense is permissible
Everyone is ALWAYS underestimating us (Portugal) but it's ok we're used to it
our results is what matters
Gonçalo Ramos just carried his excellent form from club football. If you've seen Benfica in the CL, you know his quality and goal scoring is not a surprise and he's not afraid of the big moment. He's already got 14 goals already this season.
Props to Portugal, some people call us underachievers because we've never won the world cup, but to regularly qualify and make it to knock out stages of WC, deep into the Euro and winning the Euro, by a country that has a population that is lower than the LA metropolitan area…