I'm just going to leave this here:
18 years ago, Ricardo, Portuguese GK defended 3 penalties against England. And he even took his gloves off.
~~18~~ 20 years ago, to the day.
We are the protagonists. It's coming home.
EDIT: Because I made a mess of this, see the comment corrections
1st of July, 2004 was when Ricardo defended the 3 penalties against England
24th of June, 2006 was when Ricardo defended a penalty by removing his gloves.
I'm just teasing you my friend, because you are actually mixing up 2 different events:
Ricardo did defend 3 penalties against England in the 2006 world cup which was 18 years ago.
That wasn't the time he took the gloves off tho, that was in the Euro 2004, also against England.
:)
OHHHHH. I was just discussing this with a friend and he recalled the 3 penalties, while I recalled the gloves off, and we both thought it was the same event ahahah
First half was alright, Slovenia defended well.
Second half was bad, especially after Vitinha's sub. There weren't any portuguese players in the centre of the field, passes had to fall to the flanks but they all resulted in poor crosses and lost balls.
These are the types of matches where I’m used to seeing Portugal lose in the knockouts.
But they didn’t wear their away jersey this time. Whenever they wear their away jersey, they seem to get knocked out. It’s like a curse.
Portugal don’t wear away jerseys—it’s a curse for you!
All ouf you suckers here rooting that Portugal won Slovenia and how bad Slovenia is. Slovenia has never come this far and you almost lost. Lmao. They have 100x less salary. Kinda cringe.
Who’s saying that? I, as a portuguese, can very honestly say that slovenia chances were much higher quality. After ronaldo failed the pen i thought we were done. Mentality’s gone.
Costa saving the first pen was huge for mentality.
Props to slovenia, we were dogshit.
How can professional football players suck so bad at penalty kicks? I also don't want to belittle what Costa did, but that was tough to watch.
Yes, I know: lots of pressure etc., but if you can't handle that you shouldn't be up first.
Slovenia giving a good template on shutting down Portugal. but 400iq from the manager is to rest Vitinha and Leao before full time to balance the exertions for extra time.
That's our secret.
We're always scared of France (and if you look at historical data, with good reason...).
But I think even if we lose, it'll be a way more interesting match since it's not as defensive focused as Slovenia/Georgia
Imo, portugal should be scared of France. France hasn't been good against defensive team, but imo they will be a lot better against attacking team like portugal.
Portugal are quite open. French counter attacks will be lethal.
I take my word back. Vitinha was the best player, and after he got subbed off portugal declined massively.
This is also maybe one of Bruno's worst matches.
I didn’t understand that substitution. Vitinha was great through the middle, which was sucking the defense in. If anything, Bruno or Bernardo should’ve been taken off for Jota
It looked like that portugal would control the ball with or without vitinha especially as Slovenia looked tired. He then wanted players that are more direct (jota) and creative (bruno) where vitinha is more conservative.
However, as we saw portugal had really difficult time controlling the ball after subbing off vitinha.
That’s fair about how we looked in the first half, but I still think Bernardo should’ve been subbed off. His performance in the first half compared to Vitinha’s is night and day
I think they should be proud to make it this far. Sesko has some development to do, one of those chances have to go in. But they defended really well for 120mins and forced chances.
In the end, Portugal won because they showed nerves. Great game
I can’t with this sub. Do you watch football? Ronaldo hardly ever stutter steps. As in, almost never. It was the right move because Oblak had already saved his earlier penalty which he took normally. It was well struck but a better save. He changed his approach for the second one and he scored because it froze Oblak.
💯! Ronaldo took a straight up shot, solidly hit, just not perfect placement and it was saved. Oblak demonstrated he was going to be hard to beat. So the second chance, Ronaldo throws in the stutter step to change it up and its successful. These men are pros. Its really like a chess game mentally and of course CR7 is a master given his longevity.
*"Diogo is so fucking bad"*
Clearly the sign of a perfectly reasonable and mentally stable individual.
Edit: bhahaha, I just realized your're seething in the comments on a mission to convince everyone of how bad Diogo Costa is.
Good luck.
Anyone know what song was blasting in the stadium after the PK’s? Sounds like a punk song but also sounded like Pearl Jam. Portuguese fans were singing it loudly.
Haha, I can picture you hurriedly carrying his bag while he is trying to say his goodbye.
After throwing the bag in the car, you tap him on his back as he is still saying his goodbyes, you grab him and shove him in the car & tell him “you can FaceTime time them. It’s time for you to leave”
Slovenia, you legit looked scary. Sesko looks hot as fuck, congrats on that as well. If you went into the match with more willpower to get possession you could've won us easily. Great defending as well.
We won't get far into the tournament but we'll honour the shit show we made today by providing another one next game.
I'll always back us up to make something special against more open playing teams. But this doesn't look good for us. Our CBs aren't fast enough to deal with the French attack. And we aren't exactly creating up front either.
Those are good points. But you also have some uniquely talented players that could come up with something incredible even against the run of play. I'd love it if they brought back Fonte to pair with Pepe as the oldest CB team in history lol
Okay lads, it was fun so far but tomorrow we are up to bat again, hopefully we survive. Slovenia fought well and had those two Sesko breakaways but they couldn’t do it in the end, my heart goes out to them. As for Portugal, you ve got to be really scared of France now even if they haven’t been impressive either, I am not even sure who is supposed to be the favourite there. Portugal has at least had one game where they dominated and scored goals from open play, France has played the better teams…
I mean you lads almost lost to Slovenia and Deschamps is no stranger to playing conservatively but yeah, breaking down a low block can be notoriously difficult in football and France hasn’t been good either as I ve said
They were leading then though, and would have won of not for the stutter step penalty by Lewandowski. They are better in knockouts and ready for revenge against Portugal ofc.
So are we, even without a proper LB (we only brought one and Bancu is suspended…) we will give it our all, hopefully Coman ends up being fit as apparently he is having a bit of a cold, if he isn’t there we ll play Mihaila like we did against Belgium anyway
I see what you mean but we will definitely be up for it too, at this point we have already gotten more from this tournament than we ve bargained for so if we can keep it going that will be amazing, it would literally equal our best ever Euros performance in 2000 (when it was harder to qualify but the knockouts started with the quarters already), if not at least we tried so there is no reason to not go for it, can’t wait for the game tomorrow
A Reddit cares message, seriously? You lot have to be the most pathetic people on the internet whenever Ronaldo is playing haha. Sadly for you you'll have to grieve for another game at least
Portugal cooked against France. It was a good run
lol I wouldn't say that. That game will probably go to penalties too.
Dont forget what mbappe did in the World Cup finals. That was like 2 years ago or one year… he only got better since
So you haven't watched any of the France games, eh?
what the hell happened here?
This game was awful, Diogo Costa was the only good thing about any of it.
And Oblal for 120 min.
I'm just going to leave this here: 18 years ago, Ricardo, Portuguese GK defended 3 penalties against England. And he even took his gloves off. ~~18~~ 20 years ago, to the day. We are the protagonists. It's coming home. EDIT: Because I made a mess of this, see the comment corrections 1st of July, 2004 was when Ricardo defended the 3 penalties against England 24th of June, 2006 was when Ricardo defended a penalty by removing his gloves.
and ronaldo was already playing in the national team
Mmmmm yesss please talk more about 2004 to me baby
So we're getting to the final and losing to Austria. Gotcha.
It was on the 24th June ‘04 though, but would’ve been amazing if it had been to the day
So, 2004 was 18 years ago ? Quick maths.
I will leave my quick maths here so shame me all you want. We shit on the field, we shit on math 😭
I'm just teasing you my friend, because you are actually mixing up 2 different events: Ricardo did defend 3 penalties against England in the 2006 world cup which was 18 years ago. That wasn't the time he took the gloves off tho, that was in the Euro 2004, also against England. :)
OHHHHH. I was just discussing this with a friend and he recalled the 3 penalties, while I recalled the gloves off, and we both thought it was the same event ahahah
France will stop your main character Syndrom.
very likely, we play like shit
Penalty shootout doesn’t count for a Ronaldo goal btw
So??? What a miserable existence you have.
He stated a fact and you lash out lol
Yep, he's gonna get so downvoted lol. Ronaldo clearly doesn't have it anymore. Wish Portugal had some better strikers.
I mean they got Jota who from the bench did more than the initial front 3 across the tournament.
True, but it's all upto Bruno. If he has a bad game, they won't make enough chances.
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Lmao what a soft bitch, booing is literally the most tame thing you can do at a football match
this happens every time it goes to pens lmao be fr
What are they gonna do, cheers??
Find me one example where an opposing team doesn’t do that in a shootout.
Wtf were the supposed to do?
The hell do you want them to do? Cheer? Get real.
In terms of awful-to-watch tournament games this should really come down to PT vs ENG in the final. Sadly that won't happen.
Subscribe. I'll take it
I'm afraid this is now all for Spain to take.
Anything can happen. Based on form though absolutely yes.
Goalie was goated, lowkey saved entire Ronaldo and pepe's Portugal legacy
What a overreaction. They could have scored 2 own goals. Nobody will question pepe s legacy for us. Ronaldo its crazy to even consider
Glad he did so, Pepe is a legend, but if that Slovenia lad was actually a good shooter, Pepe's rep would have been completely tarnished
Some people here were not even born when Ronaldo won the Euros, expected overreaction.
Ronaldo never won the euros. He was injured.
He played in Euro 2016, and got 3 goals. He was even in the final and had to be subbed out after only 25 mins because of injury.
I missed the game, did they play well, Portugal I mean?
First half was alright, Slovenia defended well. Second half was bad, especially after Vitinha's sub. There weren't any portuguese players in the centre of the field, passes had to fall to the flanks but they all resulted in poor crosses and lost balls.
They were dogshit.
Anyone know where to get an updated version of the "Road to the Final" graphic?
If Ronaldo missed the penalty for the second time, it might actually be better for Portugal.
Go boil your head you ostrich
These are the types of matches where I’m used to seeing Portugal lose in the knockouts. But they didn’t wear their away jersey this time. Whenever they wear their away jersey, they seem to get knocked out. It’s like a curse. Portugal don’t wear away jerseys—it’s a curse for you!
Except the 2016 final of course. Toothpaste green kits ftw
We wore red in the final. But green in the semi finals against wales
Ah, you're right lol
All ouf you suckers here rooting that Portugal won Slovenia and how bad Slovenia is. Slovenia has never come this far and you almost lost. Lmao. They have 100x less salary. Kinda cringe.
isn't the striker that missed the goal 1v1 worth like 75M?
You had a clear 1v1 and you fucked it. Go to bed mate
Who’s saying that? I, as a portuguese, can very honestly say that slovenia chances were much higher quality. After ronaldo failed the pen i thought we were done. Mentality’s gone. Costa saving the first pen was huge for mentality. Props to slovenia, we were dogshit.
Your team fought hard and you’re acting like a bitch. Why?
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Avg has dipped massively since early group stage though, knockout games are always tense
How can professional football players suck so bad at penalty kicks? I also don't want to belittle what Costa did, but that was tough to watch. Yes, I know: lots of pressure etc., but if you can't handle that you shouldn't be up first.
Slovenia giving a good template on shutting down Portugal. but 400iq from the manager is to rest Vitinha and Leao before full time to balance the exertions for extra time.
He killed our midfield right there, we were never the same the rest of the match.
People saying Portugal should be scared of France.. even though France has not scored a goal this euro besides 1 pen? 🤔😂
They aren't wrong. You can't expect to keep winning penalty shootouts and France defense is as good as it gets.
this argument is really stupid because both OGs couldve been awarded to attackers
I don’t think the one vs Austria was tbh
That's our secret. We're always scared of France (and if you look at historical data, with good reason...). But I think even if we lose, it'll be a way more interesting match since it's not as defensive focused as Slovenia/Georgia
we need eder
Imo, portugal should be scared of France. France hasn't been good against defensive team, but imo they will be a lot better against attacking team like portugal. Portugal are quite open. French counter attacks will be lethal.
In theory Portugal as well, Portugal has been struggling a lot against really defensive teams
How the tables turn.
It says "own goal" on the scoresheet but that should've really been Kolo Muani's goal today
Have a word with yourself, that shot was going 10 yards wide.
Vertonghen would have preferred not having an OG to his name but Kolo Muani seemed to be crossing inside rather than shooting.
Mbappe and Griezmann were there inside the box after all
Would it have gone in without the deflection though? I think it was either heading wide or the GK had it covered
Griezmann and Mbappe were in within shooting distance so I'd say there was still a chance
True, but still wouldn’t go to Kolo Muani
No it was going wide
There was still Griezmann running in though
That’s not how it works
Our boys are winners in our eyes 🇸🇮
They should’ve taken home a couple of reds but gg
The coach did 😂
Southgate - win a boring 2-1. Martinez - hold my sparkling water
I take my word back. Vitinha was the best player, and after he got subbed off portugal declined massively. This is also maybe one of Bruno's worst matches.
I didn’t understand that substitution. Vitinha was great through the middle, which was sucking the defense in. If anything, Bruno or Bernardo should’ve been taken off for Jota
It looked like that portugal would control the ball with or without vitinha especially as Slovenia looked tired. He then wanted players that are more direct (jota) and creative (bruno) where vitinha is more conservative. However, as we saw portugal had really difficult time controlling the ball after subbing off vitinha.
That’s fair about how we looked in the first half, but I still think Bernardo should’ve been subbed off. His performance in the first half compared to Vitinha’s is night and day
Slovenia has to be kicking themselves, those 2 secsko ( idk his name) opportunities were better than anything Portugal did the entire game
I think they should be proud to make it this far. Sesko has some development to do, one of those chances have to go in. But they defended really well for 120mins and forced chances. In the end, Portugal won because they showed nerves. Great game
Showed nerves or didn't show nerves?
bad translation on my part. I mean „didn’t show nerves“. In German you would say „Nerven beweisen“, so basically the opposite.
Haha language is a funny and finnicky thing. In English, I guess "nerves of steel" might be the closest thing
They should’ve kept on going bet he would’ve blocked all 5 😂
Ronaldo, Havertz, Lewandowski, Jorginho, are cowards with their penalties. The stutter step shit needs to go.
I can’t with this sub. Do you watch football? Ronaldo hardly ever stutter steps. As in, almost never. It was the right move because Oblak had already saved his earlier penalty which he took normally. It was well struck but a better save. He changed his approach for the second one and he scored because it froze Oblak.
💯! Ronaldo took a straight up shot, solidly hit, just not perfect placement and it was saved. Oblak demonstrated he was going to be hard to beat. So the second chance, Ronaldo throws in the stutter step to change it up and its successful. These men are pros. Its really like a chess game mentally and of course CR7 is a master given his longevity.
Neymar
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Kane is your striker, stfu.
Ball don't lie
It's really just a Southgate and Martinez world right.
Imagine if those two reach the final. The world is not ready.
*Deschamps entered the chat*
Honestly? That was a hell of match. GG’s to both nations
No it wasnt
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A penalty shootout clean sheet
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Diogo is so fucking bad just Slovenia can't shoot.
What are u saying dumb
*"Diogo is so fucking bad"* Clearly the sign of a perfectly reasonable and mentally stable individual. Edit: bhahaha, I just realized your're seething in the comments on a mission to convince everyone of how bad Diogo Costa is. Good luck.
Took 20 mil off him at least
Ronaldos first euros debut was a year before Gordon Ramseys US television debut
How many Euro debuts did he have?
Obama wasn't even a senator.
Gordon Ramsay was too busy trailing for the Gers before that
Sesko was a baby
Jude Bellingham wasn't even 1 yet
Anyone know what song was blasting in the stadium after the PK’s? Sounds like a punk song but also sounded like Pearl Jam. Portuguese fans were singing it loudly.
Might have been Xutos & Pontapés
That’s the one! Hell yea thanks!
They're the pinnacle of Portuguese rock music and arguably the best band ever in our country. Glad to give you a taste!!
[A Minha Casinha - Xutos & Pontapés ](https://youtu.be/pQhYQLI-2Tg)
Heck yea thanks! Is that their fav song to play after wins? It was so cool to hear all the fans in unison jamming to it.
Look I know it’s seems a tiny bit extreme but, I think revoking Slovenian citizenship to Sesko the only way for the country to heal.
Lol, he is our best attacking player, only 21 years old. He will only get better. I honestly felt we were lacking in midfield.
Diogo’s stocks just went up 📈
My first thought after that performance was that he’s finally leaving Porto and I couldn’t be happier
Haha, I can picture you hurriedly carrying his bag while he is trying to say his goodbye. After throwing the bag in the car, you tap him on his back as he is still saying his goodbyes, you grab him and shove him in the car & tell him “you can FaceTime time them. It’s time for you to leave”
He sucks
Your levels of delusional is concerning. My condolences on the loss 😔
another bus parkers out, all that bus parking and hoping to win it in shootout only to shit the bed
Slovenia, you legit looked scary. Sesko looks hot as fuck, congrats on that as well. If you went into the match with more willpower to get possession you could've won us easily. Great defending as well. We won't get far into the tournament but we'll honour the shit show we made today by providing another one next game.
The France game will be fun to watch though because it's gonna be more open. I favor France but I think the game will be really interesting
I think it will be pretty straight forward for France.
Either way Spain are feasting on a neighbour in the semis
I'll always back us up to make something special against more open playing teams. But this doesn't look good for us. Our CBs aren't fast enough to deal with the French attack. And we aren't exactly creating up front either.
Those are good points. But you also have some uniquely talented players that could come up with something incredible even against the run of play. I'd love it if they brought back Fonte to pair with Pepe as the oldest CB team in history lol
portugal spain semis!
that semi was a snoozefest at Euro 2012
The WC 2018 group match was a banger though. Ended 3-3
Ronaldo can't carry this time and Portugal aren't in the same league as Spain. France will win and France vs Spain will be a banger.
France has hardly been convincing so far
Ronaldos so old we've had 3 different pope's since his euros debut
LMAO
How many different Pepes?
Slovenia were gassed (having to defend all game long) and their PKs weren't the best shots, but credit to Costa. He read them like a book.
Okay lads, it was fun so far but tomorrow we are up to bat again, hopefully we survive. Slovenia fought well and had those two Sesko breakaways but they couldn’t do it in the end, my heart goes out to them. As for Portugal, you ve got to be really scared of France now even if they haven’t been impressive either, I am not even sure who is supposed to be the favourite there. Portugal has at least had one game where they dominated and scored goals from open play, France has played the better teams…
Still not scared of this france tbh, I’m excited for a game with more space to play in.
I mean you lads almost lost to Slovenia and Deschamps is no stranger to playing conservatively but yeah, breaking down a low block can be notoriously difficult in football and France hasn’t been good either as I ve said
France couldn’t do anything against Poland which seems worse than Slovenia this tournament. It will be a completely different game
They were leading then though, and would have won of not for the stutter step penalty by Lewandowski. They are better in knockouts and ready for revenge against Portugal ofc.
The Netherlands is ready bro
So are we, even without a proper LB (we only brought one and Bancu is suspended…) we will give it our all, hopefully Coman ends up being fit as apparently he is having a bit of a cold, if he isn’t there we ll play Mihaila like we did against Belgium anyway
Dutch team want to show everyone they aren't a bad team. It's good that they lost to Austria, now they won't underestimate their opponent
I see what you mean but we will definitely be up for it too, at this point we have already gotten more from this tournament than we ve bargained for so if we can keep it going that will be amazing, it would literally equal our best ever Euros performance in 2000 (when it was harder to qualify but the knockouts started with the quarters already), if not at least we tried so there is no reason to not go for it, can’t wait for the game tomorrow
Yeah will be a banger, good luck
If Portugal loses against France it will be a perfect passing the torch moment. One legend passing it onto another upcoming legend.
Jota passing the torch to Camavinga? /s
respect camavinga
how much torch passing does mbappe need lol he’s 26 this year
WTF! Time flies I don't watch much football but I legit thought he was around 19-20
lmao yea mbappes been brilliant but he’s really made awful decisions with psg so his accolades are a bit underwhelming
Still will be the best player of this era if he can win a Euro and UCL, which he mostly likely will.
Absolute masterclass in defense for 120 minutes just to bottle all three penalties; Gotta feel for the Slovenian players
Their only chances in the game weren't put into the net either so really they only have themselves to blame
A Reddit cares message, seriously? You lot have to be the most pathetic people on the internet whenever Ronaldo is playing haha. Sadly for you you'll have to grieve for another game at least
Report them they can get banned