Costa SAVES Portugal HORROR SHOW & France EDGE Belgium! | Euro Daily 

Almost literally, since he had his back turned to the Portuguese fans. He wasn't defending the goal, he was defending them!

Which team played like crap? The one who dominated most of the game, or the one who parked the bus? Portugal didn't play great, but from mid performance, to crap, there's a long way. It's one those games, Portugal scoring one goal early, and Slovenia would get battered. As for Diogo Costa, he didn't carry the team for the entire match, he did it in the last minutes of extra time and the penalty shootout. He made what, 2 saves the entire 120 minutes? One of them was huge, the other was standard.

​@@dcarvalho6144That's all a good goalie on a good team really has to do. Mamardashvili obviously had quite the effort for Georgia, but he was playing for what frankly was just an ok team but played amazingly. Costa's performance shouldn't be too dented by the fact that Portugal's defense was excellent (except for that one Pepe error).

What did you expact the Players how toke pens were old and not playing in top 5 leagues

Portugal didn't play bad, Slovenia was incredible defensively. They played like prime Atletico😂😂😂

True 🎯💯 those kind of moments do a lot for confidence and momentum. That save was arguably bigger than the pen saves he went on to make just on a mental perspective 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Bruh the latin ESPN commentators also compared Diogo's saves with Martinez's.

They didn't let Belgium come 😞

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​@@wholewheatbread8816 Nah he just tryna work with RU-vid algorithm cuz ain't no way bro said that. Not my Goat pundit 😢

Belgium gooned too close to the sun

Lakaka edged too soon

Best comment!

Germnay is playing poorly in the last games, and Spain last game was aldo not good

@@agostinho6550 they literally won 4-1, sure they took time to get through the Georgian team but that's more of a statement to Georgia's defensive quality

What about the Netherlands? I feel they’ve just been…ok

@@silvesta5027 I really wanted to do Portugal, Belgium and Nederlands as well! I consider them all major football nations. I just got lazy

yeah tbh portugual should just win portugual has actually won matches france wins by penalties or own goals every match and portugual really only look bad when playing vs 5 defender teams and france isnt anything like that or anyone this side of bracket to me i could see portugual cooking but if austria or swiss get to the final it may be bad times for portugual simply because they know how to play 5 defenders and other style

Bruno Fernandes hasn't scored a freekick in 4 years, do you watch football or do you really believe that he's one of the "best freekick specialists" in the world? And Portugal don't have a better striking option regardless of Ronaldo's performance so he will continue to start and Roberto Martínez probably doesn't want the media frenzy and to risk his job by benching the Portuguese GOAT.

@@NickthePobrecito bruno isnt going for goal you muppet. He would put itini box where our "striker" ie ronaldo can actually score from a good chance. Free kicks are not a good chance and doesnt cause defenders of keeper to think wher as bruno and bernardo can put the ball anywhere to any of several men in box that is much harderto defend than letting a guy whos only going to go from goal and never score take the kick. Starting to understand? They do have better options tathat positioin as CR is a winger who cant make runs in behind theline, wont drag defenders out of bo for wngers to attack, cant hold ball u for likes of bruno to run onto or wingers in build up play which has always been his strength. He doesnt press so thet cant recover ball in advantageous spots and insetadhave to break down a team sitting back in a defensive shell every tmie. Its basics you learn a s akid. I love this team before ronaldo ,during, and I look forward to after at this point like a lot of fans because of this circus of superficial fans who think one player deseres al, the credit and none of the criticism which isnt reality. When he does well its all about him and when he doesnt lets criticize all his teammates and guys who arent even involved in match. All because they refuse like him to celebrate anyone else. If bruno had taken that penalty and missed his fans he would have thrown a fit and hiis fans would crucify him but when ronaldo misses everyone has to console him because hes captain? To be clear they should support him and console him but because thats always been thie case he shouldnt be captain and hasnt for any team historically.He plays like a mercenary on the field and always has its why he has played in so many places for so many managers and doesnt speak glowingly about anyone. Even soft ball sir alex questions that he can just smash home like a volley and praise a man that helped him as a youth from sporting he refuses. His coach from sporting at 17 who coached him at 2016 euros he deosnt even speak to anymore for petty reasons. Please go to talk to ronaldo fans...portugal fans dont need this we have suffered with it enough.

Belgium had the misfortune of their golden generation overlapping with France’s golden generation, Croatia’s golden generation, Ronaldo’s Portugal, along with excellent Argentinian and English teams. It’s difficult to break into even the top 5 spots in the world, let alone vying for silverware.

If they'd been around in 2014, they would have probably been a contender for the WC.

honestly a world cup semi is pretty good, all things considered. de bruyne will go down as the second best player to never win a balon d'or ( after henry of course )

@@somethingwithultra7231 nobody could stop that german team dude

3rd place in the 2018 WC is actually fine, considering they were nearly beaten by Japan in the round of 16 that year. Winning any international tournament is hard, but they have at least some medal to show for it.

It was boring because Portugal has a massive black hole that forces the team to cross the ball into the area as much as they can. The game could've gone for an extra 2 hours, Portugal could've brought back vitinha into the field and they would still have absolutely no chance from open play (or free kicks) to score. Slovenia did what they had to do against a much better group of individual talent, but unfortunately they didn't find any luck from the break, unfortunate for sesko but I'm sure he'll have his time to shine later in his career

@@joaomarques4030 Bernardo and Bruno are in very poor form, forget playing well, although I think we were with Cancelo, Mendes, Vitinha, Palhinha and Leão playing well. Problem is Bruno and Bernardo are playing like Shi++++, but who can take them out of a game? João Neves and Mateus Nunes are not in form either and we don't have Pote or Horta in the squad.

I honestly would probably take Bernardo out against France, and play Cancelo on the right (Francisco does not have the quality to start for Portugal) and Dalot has a right back. Play Bernardo on the second half when he is fresher and can do something,

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We had like 15 seconds apart from both our comments. It seems the first one does win 😂. I feel like the commercial with the guy and money on the fishing rod haha

I think that is fine. It offers more variety. I think Ronaldo has become too one dimensional for him to play a full 90. He's 39 so that's fair.

That would be ideal, but seemingly won't happen.

Yeah both of them were class. Was especially surprising to see Oblak channel his old self as well coz he'd been shaky in recent times with Atléti's on/off defence but showed his experience today 🙌🏿.

​@TheOnlyTaps not really, Simeone is the one to blame.😂😂

@@ezekielphiri2607 Simeone has still coached well over the years. Just unfortunately his defence keeps downgrading year after year with Atléti constantly wasting money on attackers and only recently starting to buy some good defenders rather than shoehorn players like Witsel into defence. But yeah specific to Oblak I was giving him part of the blame a bit coz he had his slight up and downs. Which is normal so I don't say it to criticize him was just pointing it out. He had a phase where his shot stopping had gone down significantly so couple that with his defence getting weaker it led to a disaster where Atléti were now conceding so many shots that they faced away from home. So this Slovenia performance felt like a vintage game from him 🙌🏿🔥. Which he was able to pull out whenever Atléti played at home these past two seasons but something he rarely ever pulled out in the away games for Atléti. But yeah good to see. Coz it was beginning to feel like he was entering his old man phase like the late stage Samir Handanović/Gigi Buffon arc

I mean, even with no game, you're gonna be scoring at least twice with 64 free licks.

I can’t even think of a parallel in any other sport? Shaquille oneal’s free throw % maybe comes close. But for the comparison to be true, Shaq needed to have a great free throw % for 3-4 years, followed by progressively more dismal numbers as his career progressed.

yeah i don't know why they still let him take it every time... he has strengths but free kicks were never one of them

clueless lol

​​@@vipervenom5236but they would. Portugal are too one-dimensional with Ronaldo. He's not the unstoppable beast he once was anymore. Like Adrian said, Drkusic was able to keep him quiet. At least with Ramos or Jota Portutal have more variety and more players functioning in a press. Ronaldo fanboys need to learn that no matter how great a player is, time catches up to them. Football is a team game, and Ronaldo only works when the team works for him.

@@Oakeedokee7 yeah, it was pretty much true since the last tournament. Ronaldo could be great off the bench but not start

@@Oakeedokee7ramos is not better than ronaldo even when he is 39 and jota is better but he has fitness problems that make him unable to start and play the full game...what is killing portugal is players like bernardo and bruno that are underperforming a lot despite being in their "prime"

​@@pedrooliveira6394May be Ronaldo is impacting their performance

And now against each other 😅

France will beat Portugal. This Portugal side is unimpressive.

​​@@kageryu311 France have scored 0 real goals in the entire tournament, they're washed and got through with pure luck. They scored 1 penalty and 2 own goals from opponents lol

​@@kageryu311Unimpressive how?

​@@kageryu311France hasn't even scored in open play😂😂

I think Portugal beat France 1-0

When I saw Ronaldo taking free kicks from corner kicks angles, I legitimately had to pause and ask myself "has this old man gone senile?"

It's time to face reality, he's just not it anymore. Maybe for 20 minutes he can play, but that's it.

​@@alibarznji2000he absolutely can play for 90min. Y'all acting like he had a terrible game. He was unlucky with the crosses he received, Slovenia kept it very tight with no space in the box, and Oblak made a great save on the pen.

@@dcarvalho6144he was awful. If he doesn’t score, he’s absolutely useless. Has been a one dimensional player since 2018 at least. Doesn’t press, isn’t active off the ball when he’s not getting it served on a platter, doesn’t create for others, wastes chances. Has no speed, no quickness and can’t even jump well anymore. He’s selfish and is stifling this team. 1/64 on free kicks and 9 games without a goal at international tournaments to end his career will be on Ronaldo’s tombstone. He did this to himself. He would exchange one goal at this euros for 10 straight Portugal losses just to glorify his ego.

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Because it's not a personal thing with me against Ronaldo, more a performance thing. He was playing well in Saudi Arabia, so I was fine with seeing how he could do in this tournament. But beyond the first two matches, he has reverted back to the antics that drive me crazy. I know Martinez won't bench him, and he can maybe provide some play for his teammates as he did against Czechia and Turkey. But if the performance is as poor as this one, then hopefully he'll get subbed in the second half to give a chance to someone else.

fr the only team that decided to play the game and not park the bus in front of the net, lost 3-0. Portugal is a menace, and the only way to handle them is playing defense. A style of playing that apparently they're not very good at playing against.

They need to either hit Ronaldo better with the long balls or stop doing them all together if he is not able to score them change to low balls Ronaldo drags at least 2 defenders out with him everywhere he goes so it should be easy for the rest to use those holes and spaces to score

@@ritoplsfixclient1667all top teams struggle against parking the bus, hence y it’s so frowned upon.

France is next, and Deschamps loves a low block.

​@@PANCHOSWAY No way there is any other answer than taking off Ronaldo in the main lineup and playing him when necessary

Diogo*

And Ronaldo never gets totally "destroyed", its not what he is. It was not that Ronaldo Kick was a bad one in penalty, simply they had a fantastic keeper. Portugal lacks verticality and explosivity in the front to get through a brickwall. Remember last time Portugal and Spain felt to Morocco, and Spain are the favorites now.

probably the worst place to watch the highlights ngl

He's 39 years old and the game wasn't lost. If he'd missed the vital pen in the shoot out I could understand, but he was just being a drama queen.

He's holding the team back, the manager should do the right thing and bench him

​@@frankdenweed6456 its good that the manager isnt a donkey loke you or other keyboard warriors

@@frankdenweed6456 I understand but he doesn’t have much more games left, there’s just nations league and maybe a World Cup. And jota works best in a dual striker formation and Ramos was washed against Georgia. I get your point though.

Nice of his team to support him particularly as he refuses to reciprocate

I'd say, it depends on the position. None of them are that consistent either, so it's hard to know who's on his A day

It could be taken by Stevie wonder with similar results to Ronaldo.

Y cuz he took a couple extra free kicks he probably shouldn’t have?? Overreacting hardcore. He only got 1 or 2 clear chances the entire match and other than that was passing and trying to create when he had the opportunity. Yes he took a few free kicks he shouldn’t have which u could say is selfish, but u really think Bernardo or Bruno gonna score those either?

Nope not hard to watch the 🐐. It’s a privilege to watch this man play football. Just enjoy the last few years my friend.

⁠@@EleazarHernandez2213Im sorry but it is really hard to watch, he is the goat, yes, but hes not as good anymore and it hurts to say, but he shouldnt be starting for portugal anymore (ability wise), if he is a good leader and is needed, then good for him, but if hes playing for the purpose of just being a good baller then idk anymore, love the guy and been an idol since 2003 but I dont want to overlook the facts

Bro how dumb are you ? Ronaldo doesn't help in build up, does not press the opposition defenders and cannot take his chances. He is 39 but acts as if he is 29 and throws a sissy fit if not played the whole 90 mins (which he can't). He is stifling Portugal and is taking up a spot that a much younger striker could and should have taken@@EleazarHernandez2213

ronaldo keeps playing because he is obsessed with messi, simple as that. even if he wins the euros, having 2 euros + nations leagie is not better than 1 world cup + 1 copa america + 1 finalissima. ronaldo needs to win both the euro 2024 and world cup 2026 and hope that messi lose both 2024 copa america and 2026 world cup for ronaldo to become equal than him, if not only slightly better at an international level in terms of achievements. that's also not considering the 8-5 balon dor deficit, the 6-4 golden boot deficit, and an inferior club and individual trophy haul, as well as a statistical inferiority that he has to messi in all stats outside goals. this guy is delusional beyond belief that he still obsess over a lost cause. he will never be goat. i wish a competent manager can have the balls to tell him this and retire him because ronaldo is really holding this team back

You’re not real Portuguese, most of us support cristiano and the country no matter what

I think he's having a lot of issues dealing with the end of his career. Especially when it hasn't been going very well. It feels like he's suffering mentally because his body doesn't agree with him, I've never seen him succumb to the pressure like this, in the past he shut everyone down with his performances, but now that he has aged, the pressure has gotten to him.

is this even a topic of conversation? People discussing if someone should cry or not... it's emotions ya'll, just let people cope with stuff their own way,. It's not like he threw a punch at someone or something, he just cried like... wtv

Yeah, imagine missing a penalty on your last euros. And an important one. Its so easy to talk brother. Hes retiring, give him a fking break lol.

@@alibarznji2000 you'd think that the $millions from the Saudi Pro League would soften the blow a little. Time catches up with all of us.

@@Eric_Hunt194 it's not about money, if it was about money, he could've retired 10 years ago.

It's true, they have been quite poor. Would rather see Bernardo play in the midfield (if Portugal go ahead with 4-3-3), Bruno benched. I'm undecided on who should play on the right.

@@RabonaTV Honestly, playing Cancelo in the wing if Martinez continues going for a 433 (personally, I don't think that's the best formation for the current team). Cancelo has the pace and dribbling skills to actually win 1v1s that Bernardo simply cannot do. Also, playing Bernardo and vitinha both on the midfield feels a bit repetitive no? They are very similar players after all. Would it not be more interesting to have Neves instead of Bernardo to bring a more combative player, in particular considering the France Portugal is going to face?

He's too full of himself to do that is the sad thing

People are just dumb. Ramos is a great CF for a team that presses high. Against Slovenia, just like against Morocco in 2022, the opponent never has the ball, so the pressing ability of Ramos is useless. So you either start Ronaldo or Jota or both in a front 2. In today's game, the problem wasn't the striker, was the team behind him, which was slow at times. Bruno Fernandos had a fairly bad game for example. Plus the pitch itself was quite bad, which affects the team who plays possession, a lot more than the team who parks the bus. Against France, sure, maybe Ramos might make sense to start, for his pressing ability. The game is Friday, so some players may not be able to do 90min after playing the full 120 today

Portugal without Ronaldo would still be as good if not better.

Ramos is horrible😂😂😂😂

Slovenia has to make that kind of play. Slovenia has a team worth around 140 mil, all players together. So to be competetive to big nations like Portugal, they have to must not let them score. On the other side, goal will be scored if they see the opportunity.

You actually missed the only decent part of the game lol