EURO 2012

ignorance/ego

Ronaldo whets their fancy?

Negredo was a terrible choice.

Fabulous touches in that break. This deserves a better audience.

No reds please ref

This is getting kinda weird.

this ref is ruining what is a fine match.

He reads and stuff and has a nice beard and plays a v. ilx friendly way and all but the one thing I really do love about Xabi Alonso is his one attempt per game to lob a keeper from the half way line.

Portugal getting squeezed in the middle now

cheap free kick

xabi alonso is v handsome
game recognize game

also all the flopping in this game makes me feel at home watching Manu ginobili, only there's like 7 of him

Cool insight bro

Portugal need to put a lid on this petulant, niggly shit, it's so often their undoing

i know we have done it before but 'flopping' is such an ugly (and non-football) word

Argh, that was it

bad pass, shit finish

What's up with Ronaldo's shooting this game?

cronny?
ronny!
oh, ronald...

'flopping' is perfect though, it should be used

That would have been incredible.

Coentrao is player of the tournament imo.

no one can give a good end pass

not like this

no it shouldnt

xps

this ref really wishes this is portugal-holland06

I love cracking 0-0s

what a thriller

wtf, the pundits really think that was shit?!

fuck off lineker, christ

"it's...a bit like chess" - Martin Keown

Coentrao is player of the tournament imo.

He's been really solid

oh fuck off lineker. i hate hate HATE this BBC 'there were no goals so it was shit' mentality. that was an intense game of tactics. spain didn't have an off day (bar negredo), they were played out of the game.

"portugal come out and they play and they wanted to play and i'll tell you something tactically they played better not as good as spain did but well, they did well"

How was that shit?! Spain's tiki-taka has been neutralized for once by a country with the temerity to actually not only mess with their possession game but run at them. If football isn't chess then it's just a bunch of guys kicking a ball stupidly.

No way are Portugal finishing with eleven men imo, that'll be what settles it

spain didn't have an off day (bar negredo), they were played out of the game.

I'm not watching BBC but Spain are having an off day to an extent, even though Portugal have been very good

MW – Spain still kept possession like 60% of the time, didn't they?

It's precisely Lineker's attitutde that makes the English nat'l side tend to play below top standards

Sure, remy but to what effect?

Holding Spain to 60% is an achievement xxp.

If I thought any side was more likely to score in this game it would have been Portugal. It ain't over and Spain may nick one in the end but this isn't the dumbest tactical approach to take to Spain.

This hasn't actually been that entertaining though has it?

Second half at least.

Yeah, 60% is actually pretty damn low if I think about the rest of the cup. Typed before I thought it out.

It's precisely Lineker's attitutde that makes the English nat'l side tend to play below top standards

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:40 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh this is wipespread on tv and in papers, bar the guardian with their michael cox's and jonathon wilson's.

matt this has been one of the most entertaining games of the tournament imo.

It got bitty but was always compelling.

I thought Lineker was being sarcastic at first, 'til the full horror dawned.

second half less so because the ref upped the crazy

If Portugal's attacking players had been better over the last 45 this could have been so much better. "Intense tactics" don't mean much when your attackers fluff their chances.

Iniesta did well there but that's so not a free kick