France - Portugal (July 5th) [Semi-finals]

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Posted by noikeee on Jul-03-2006 10:31:

Actually optimistic. Sure, France is on top form right now, and they're favourites but we have a chance and it's about time we beat them in a semi.

I don't get why some people are saying that "nobody expected Portugal to go so far" and that "we're the surprise of the tournament". There's no doubt our history is far from the german, italian and french, but i would have thought over the last couple of years we have earned enough respect to be currently considered as one of the best teams in the world.

Posted by malek on Jul-03-2006 21:24:

quote:
Originally posted by fastmp3
that's not what i call "le beau jeu"

fastmp3s version of le beau jeu: diving, cheating, time wasting, running chickens with no heads, over inflated ego and not pass to your teamates, "lets take it easy and see if we can win this", ...

Posted by fastmp3 on Jul-03-2006 21:57:

malek you still don't understand ...

Posted by malek on Jul-03-2006 22:06:

quote:
Originally posted by fastmp3
malek you still don't understand ...

explain then

Posted by isoterra on Jul-03-2006 22:18:

quote:
Originally posted by LittleGoku
No drama queens.

apart from henry against spain

tho it was a one off for him.. lets hope it doesn't happen again

allez les francais

Posted by Dj Smitty20 on Jul-03-2006 23:07:

quote:
Originally posted by paranoik0
There's no doubt our history is far from the german, italian and french, but i would have thought over the last couple of years we have earned enough respect to be currently considered as one of the best teams in the world.

or they are viewed as everything that is wrong with the sport today?

For the good of the game, please Mr. Zidane and Mr. Henry, send Portugal packing so they can not make another World Cup for 20 years.

Posted by PEZ68 on Jul-04-2006 07:47:

Players that won't play a possible final if they are yellow-carded at this game :

France :
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Sagnol, Thuram, Saha, Vieira, Rib�ry, Zidane.

Portugal :
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Maniche, Figo, Carvalho, Valente , Ricardo.

Posted by noikeee on Jul-04-2006 11:14:

quote:
Originally posted by Dj Smitty20
or they are viewed as everything that is wrong with the sport today?

For the good of the game, please Mr. Zidane and Mr. Henry, send Portugal packing so they can not make another World Cup for 20 years.

And France are everything that is right with the sport today?

Did you see their match against Spain?

Posted by fastmp3 on Jul-04-2006 21:54:

Italy kicked Germany's butt

time for Portugal to kick some french ass.

Posted by montana on Jul-04-2006 21:55:

i hate france, and portugal are ****s

who cares italy will knock any of them out anyways

Posted by denys envy on Jul-04-2006 22:14:

i want zidane in the final, the rest of the players are worthless to me

guess i'm rooting for france then.

Posted by fastmp3 on Jul-04-2006 22:17:

i want zidane to play his last football game against portugal

Posted by noikeee on Jul-04-2006 22:35:

quote:
Originally posted by fastmp3
i want zidane to play his last football game against portugal

i want him to make his last game against germany

Posted by fastmp3 on Jul-04-2006 22:37:

quote:
Originally posted by paranoik0
i want him to make his last game against germany

no i want france to lose, and zidane to have another yellow card

Posted by noikeee on Jul-04-2006 22:41:

i don't dislike the guy, hope he underperforms against us but shows all his class in his final game against Germany

(given we win tomorrow which is far from certain)

Posted by RenderedDream on Jul-04-2006 23:35:

the gold thing with some ball form on the top is ours (portugal) !!
france can watch zidane the last time with germany..

Posted by Ace_of_Spades on Jul-04-2006 23:50:

AS much As I want france to win but I think portugal's gonna face Italy.

But Italy's gonna be the champ... I've never seen such a strong defence from a team. Italy's defence's like Wall.

so ya , good luck for both France and portugal cause they won't be the 1st no matter what.

Posted by EriK_V on Jul-04-2006 23:50:

i want portugal to take this one. i wouldn't mind france either, just as long as italy doesn't win the championship.

Posted by RenderedDream on Jul-05-2006 00:00:

quote:
Originally posted by extacy_bomb
I've never seen such a strong defence from a team. Italy's defence's like Wall.

did you watch england - portugal?
that was literally a wall!

Posted by denys envy on Jul-05-2006 01:27:

i just noticed a trend, anyone that wins on PKs does not win their next match... so what does this mean for portugal?

Posted by RenderedDream on Jul-05-2006 01:48:

means portugal is going to beat trends =P

Posted by Lira on Jul-05-2006 02:11:

quote:
Originally posted by EriK_V
i want portugal to take this one. i wouldn't mind france either, just as long as italy doesn't win the championship.

+1

Rooting for Portugal is pretty much like rooting for a Brazil that just didn't mind crossing the ocean... they even have another Ronaldo

Posted by OurManFlint on Jul-05-2006 02:44:

Portugal to win. With all of their players back now, I think they will have a strong showing.

Posted by Ace_of_Spades on Jul-05-2006 06:26:

quote:
Originally posted by RenderedDream
did you watch england - portugal?
that was literally a wall!

YA but Germany's offence > England's .
England didn't have their owen and were so poor on their attempts and accuracy.
But Germany through out the tournment proved that they have a strong offence with very good finishers like Kolse who's goin to be the best scorer. And Italy stopped them.
So it's not fair to compare them with italy's .

Still i think portugal's going to the final.

Posted by noikeee on Jul-05-2006 09:40:

quote:
Originally posted by OurManFlint
Portugal to win. With all of their players back now, I think they will have a strong showing.

There are some doubts about whether Cristiano Ronaldo and Figo will be avaiable. Especially Figo, there is considerable chance he won't be fit.

If we win today it's the biggest achievement ever in our football's history (reaching a world cup final in foreign territory >>> reaching an euro cup final in national territory). Come on Portugal!

I think we have a good chance, sure France are a bit of favourites but with the winning mentality this team has, we always have a chance. However one thing plays against us: so far in the world cup there have been quite a few games with historical tradition and all of them have respected the tradition. France knocking out Brazil, 3rd time it happens. Italy knocking out Germany. France knocking out Spain (usual in euro cups). Portugal beating Holland and England (usual in the last 10 years).

Our historical record against France is absolutely terrible, we got knocked out in two semis by them in Euro cups (1984, 2000). They're undoubtly a particularly unconfortable team for us. The bad news for us is that if we overcome it and go through, our record against Italy is probably even worse. Every single Portugal-Italy game i remember we got our asses kicked badly. These are the worst two teams we could face.

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