I'm the blind one? Wake up dude! LOL Portugal /// France 5 Shots on Goal 4 12 Shots 5 18 Fouls 11 8 Corner Kicks 3 1 Free Kicks 0 4 Offsides 0 0 Own Goals 0 1 Yellow Cards 1 0 Red Cards 0 59% Ball Possession 41% Has i said before...More ball possesion, more shots overall, more shots at goal, more corner kicks, more free kicks! Face it... The more fouls are easy to explain...The french were always trying to delay the game and keep the ball, portuguese team made some fouls cause of that...Trying to recover the ball again!
And most important of all ... less goals Face it man ! What are you trying to prove here....France has 25% effectivness ( 1 goal out of 4 shots on goal ) and Portugal 0% ( 0 goals out of 5 shots on goal ) ! This is only stat that is worth mentioning
I'm not trying to prove anything about the game... I posted my opinion above saying that the stats confirms what i've said... You said that i was wrong...I'm just proving to you that i was right. And i AM right! It's not always the best team that wins, we all know that! France scored from a penalty and Portugal was unable to score in their chances. What to say? Better luck next time! You make a good team with MattUK...You guys only see what you want...
You have some serious religion going on here Jarod Portugal was not better to deserve to win. It was better in diving and fouling though
Dude, of course the stats are like that. France scored and were then content to sit back and protect the lead, (not exactly exciting but it worked) giving the majority and possession to Portuagal. If they hadn't scored in the first half then the stats would be different. Fact of the matter is Portugal couldn't break them down. Job well done by France.
I'm not complaining about the stats Matt...I just made a simple afirmation something like: I think Portugal played a bit better then France and the stats can confirm that. No more, no less...France did their game, i agree...I'm not complaining about that. Portugal was unable to score and so they lose. I just believe that they deserve to scored at least one goal. But that in football means nothing... Nop, they know what i'm referring. Matt the Nuno Valente hand penalty arm waiving for example... iatbm for what you've read here.
Oh well...no point in sitting on a forum arguing about it. Portugal are out boo hoo cry me a river..let's just look forward to Saturday/Sunday's games.
Appealing for a foul is much different for asking for the payer to be sent off. I didn't see them asking for him to be booked? Did you?
I'm not arguing! I'm having fun and who reads will for sure have a better opinion about Portugal then what they read at the tabloides
See what i mean MELLA?? Matt is a guy that just REFUSES to see that arm waiving for both sides is the same. Matt complains about portuguese players arm waiving and says that was their fault that Rooney get a red card but can't realize and see that the british did exactly the same asking for a penalty that never existed. It's even worst then asking for red card from a player that DID made an agression don't you think? Of course you don't LOL But hey...don't mind my opinion, i'm just a guy that only see what i want to see... Ironically speaking of course
I don't complain about Portugal player waving their arms, that's fine. It's when they start showing imaginary cards and pointing to the touchlines that I thing they're cheats. FIFA actually agree with me, appealing for free kings is fine, though trying to get a player booked is supposed to get the player booked. Luckily for Portugal this never happens as they'd finish a game with 3 players. Maybe you should take it up with FIFA?
Jarod ... we don't know what you are referring .... We all saw yesterdays game and most of us didn't see Portugal as a better team ! Oh and yes ... remind me what Ronaldo exactly showed us on this WC ? Get real ... even with Scolari Portugal cannot do nothing....they are just without winner mentality. They sure tried but those 4 big French guys in front of Barthez were just to much for little Porugal babies.
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You did in the other thread, i remember that Little Portugal babies were more then enough for the dutch, english, mexicans, iran and Angola... We've won all games, except for yesterday... I've seen the french press today at the news, and for what i've seen they say it was the thoughest opponent france had and it was the game that the french needed to defend more. Portugal did played well, just not well enough...But a bit better then the french IMO again... I don't give a royal f*ck about Ronaldo mate! Can't you see that i don't like him either?? He did play well yesterday, except for the diving part but i was expecting much more from him this WC!
No, you're obviously not reading it properly, it's not appealing I have a problem with, it's asking for players to be sent off that's cheating.
And a problem is thinking that Ronaldo did that, even so that you didn't heard a word of he said. A problem is calling that winking is related to Rooney red card, when Ronaldo could simply be just saying "ok" to Scolari words of...I don't know "Now go play more in the left" as an example I'm not saying that Ronaldo is an angel, i know that he's not...I just think it's UNFAIR for the media to manipulate images like they want. Can you understand me now? Ps: Ronaldo said several times that he only asked for the foul. And also said to portuguese press that we swapped text messages with Rooney after the game and it's everything ok with them... Do i believe this? Why not...I don't believe the british press tabloides saying that Rooney is going to break Ronaldo in two bla bla...I've never seen Rooney saying that and i've seen Ronaldo saying what he did... I'm tired of this... It's me VS the world.. upps english LOL PEACE!
No, apparently that p*ssed Rooney off even more. http://www.redissue.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=286907