I know you're a Liverpool fan but give over with Solanke.
My changes in bold.
Portugal
Come on man, one or two smilies I’d understand but 5? We’re not that badPortugal
Also, you might want to look up what a friendly match is supposed to be. To test players out and stuff. The only players from our regular 11 yesterday where Hummels, Khedira, Kroos, Özil and Werner. Rest was highly experimental.
Agree with you, some good players, not exceptional ones.
Maybe, but those countries mentioned are the ones we should compare.
Do you still lose your time with that one, he is, you know, the German, the superior one, everyone needs to do what they say, because they are the Germans.
Again with the goals scored... So you are trying to tell me that Sweden plays the most entertaining football of those teams? Sweden scored more goals than the French, they play more entertaining football than them?
Although we have a good quality lot, is nowhere near Spain, France or Germany.Portugal
Also, you might want to look up what a friendly match is supposed to be. To test players out and stuff. The only players from our regular 11 yesterday where Hummels, Khedira, Kroos, Özil and Werner. Rest was highly experimental.
Yup best chance possible is reaching last 8, but even that we will need someone like Pepe to be in good shape, without him no chance at all.
It was more about the post in general to be honest. Putting Portugal among the top 3 favorites just added to it and was the most ridiculous thing. He pretty much excluded the two biggest bookies favorites and came up with Portugal
He surely is atm and I don’t see anyone challenging him. His pretty much the missing puzzle piece that gave me back my hopes of retaining the title. Without him we have huge problems up front.
Have you seen anybody here from Portugal saying we are amongst the 3 favourites? At best we will reach the last 8.It was more about the post in general to be honest. Putting Portugal among the top 3 favorites just added to it and was the most ridiculous thing. He pretty much excluded the two biggest bookies favorites and came up with Portugal
It will depend on the draw, if we get Spain + another good team we'll probably be out in the group stage. But if we get some country like Peru, get first place and then an easy draw in the round of 16 we could even make the last 8 fairly comfortably which would be our third best World Cup result ever and a big success. The fact we're in pot 1 makes it a lot easier since the last 2 World Cups we've had Germany and Brazil in our group. We won't get the luck we got in Euro 2016 so we'll probably get knocked out by the first top team we face.
Let's bring Fernando Couto back
Pretty sure Ricardo Carvalho still hasn't retired..Let's bring Fernando Couto back
Mentioned last 8 at best, no problems with Pepe, and our best 11 who played vs Switzerland without injuries, if not even reaching the last 16 will be a problem, not mentioned here, but even looking to some African teams, like Nigeria, Senegal or Morocco, they can cause serious upsets to anyone, so no, everything can happen, hopefully the manager selects those who are in better shape and not the ones who are more loyal to him.
We don't have nothing similar to Couto, Jorge Costa, Ricardo Carvalho or Jorge Andrade, total disgrace of centerbacks we have, Christ, yesterday watching Luis Neto or Ricardo Ferreira at a certain point I had to laugh, even Nelson Semedo at NT level is suspect for me.Let's bring Fernando Couto back
Nigeria plays with John Ogu in the starting team. They don't seem to take this competition seriously.
I'm not worried about the flanks, curiously. Semedo, Cédric, Ricardo Pereira, Raphael and Coentrão will deliver. And the u21 side defenders are quite good too.
Nigeria had a impressive run in the African qualifiers, with high scoring results, managed by a German and yesterday they beat Argentina 4:2 after starting to lose 2:0, Ilenacho, Iwobi and other type of players who can cause trouble in a good day to any team imo.
For this WC forget it, at the current under 21's the only one who might turn a good player is Ruben Dias, Ferro forget it, then Paulo Oliveira, Ruben Semedo, Vezo, Ié, simply none of them is good enough compared with other top teams.
Last WC Germany got a 2:2 draw with Ghana and needed a extra time to beat Algeria, no one is saying they will win, but in a good day they can beat anyone.
That's why I mentioned John Ogu. He played in Portugal for several seasons and he was quite underwhelming. I remember him at Académica and he was really subpar! A decent destroyer though, but couldn't offer much more than that.
Ghana was our second group stage match, we always drop points there.
I believe Nigeria, Senegal or Morocco will cause some troubles to European and South American teams, just my guess, not winning the competition of course.Ghana was our second group stage match, we always drop points there.
Algeria was indeed impressive though.
Sure not all 5 teams will lose every game, but CAF's overall record in the last two WCs was extremely bad.
It was pretty good in 2014. Ghana got a terrible group but still did pretty well, Algeria and Nigeria got through their groups but had to face France and Germany in the round of 16 and Ivory Coast was 1 minute away from going through their group. Only Cameroon were pretty poor.
Ghana reached QF in 2010 and was a penalty away from making semi finals.
Yeah and what's CAF's overall record as in points per game?
That depends on your expectations for them, what're you expecting to find the actual results disappointing ?
After the Nigeria/Cameroon team in the 90s progress onwards closing the gap to SA/Europe, but results didn't seem to get any better - on the contrary.
If 2 of them passed their group, or in case of Ghana could reach QF, that's very good for me. Not all the 5 teams are supposed to be world beaters.
No. Whew have I said that? It was ne post by someone not Portuguese. Calm down man...
Just to inform you John Ogu is not a starter for Nigeria. Onazi starts ahead of him and also Mikel Agu is in front of him (you may have heard of him, Porto player on loan to Bursapor, Turkey). In fact against Argentina we (Nigeria) had 5 starters missing.
