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Canada13410 Posts
Portugal finally won and we did it without Ronaldo on the field for the final.
They had a gameplan and stuck to it. For once the team didn't look like a lot of individuals playing but like a real team this year. Say what you will about it being boring or highly defensive, I think Portugal saw what had to be done and did it well. There was no way we could have gone all out offense all game against France, we would never win that way.
The handball free kick call was probably the only real bad call the referee made. It was overall a really clean game considering how high the tensions were and the cards only started rolling when tired legs and strained minds started to make mistakes with their challenges on both sides.
Somehow eder scored and all you need is one moment of brilliance to win offensively. Though i will say Rui Patricio put the team on his back today, he made a ton of very very good saves.
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heartbroken right now, Patricio played like a champion though. much respect to Portugal for doing it when in all reality they shouldn't have, what a way to win your first title.
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honestly thought France would win it against Portugal...
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people keep complaining about "ugly" games. guess what, that happens in sports, not every game ur gonna get 30 yard missiles and bicycle kicks. i think if u asked anybody before the finals, they would all agree that this is what portugal had to do to win.
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On July 11 2016 12:21 zev318 wrote:
people keep complaining about "ugly" games. guess what, that happens in sports, not every game ur gonna get 30 yard missiles and bicycle kicks. i think if u asked anybody before the finals, they would all agree that this is what portugal had to do to win.
I think the problem is that people see this as a growing trend.
You see far, far fewer boring/ugly games like this in other sports like basketball, hockey, American football, rugby, etc. Unfortunately, the trend for our sport is for this to happen increasingly often.
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On July 11 2016 13:26 Stratos_speAr wrote:Show nested quote +On July 11 2016 12:21 zev318 wrote:
people keep complaining about "ugly" games. guess what, that happens in sports, not every game ur gonna get 30 yard missiles and bicycle kicks. i think if u asked anybody before the finals, they would all agree that this is what portugal had to do to win. I think the problem is that people see this as a growing trend. You see far, far fewer boring/ugly games like this in other sports like basketball, hockey, American football, rugby, etc. Unfortunately, the trend for our sport is for this to happen increasingly often.
I've seen enough rugby to tell you that it's sometimes super boring. The physical impacts are cool, but after a while you don't care as much about it. I wouldn't know how to judge American sports since I barely watch them, but I'd say teams are encouraged to attack a lot to entertain the spectators. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't NBA notorious for having bad defenses, or at least teams that lack balance and go all out offensive?
Football needs more teams that take the initiative. For national teams right now, you can probably count offensive teams on one hand. Brazil is full muscle now, Argentina is more counter-attack, so there's only Spain and Germany left? England's trying a bit, France isn't, Italy isn't, etc... A game between 2 defensive oriented teams will often be boring. Barcelona vs Atletico is fun, but Atletico vs a smaller team wouldn't be very exciting. Like a game between two Spanish players in tennis would be utterly boring because of their playstyle. Thankfully, some very talented players like Federer can raise the entertainment level.
There should be defensive teams for sure, but I think FIFA should think about ways to promote offensive plays. Building an offensive team is more difficult because technical players usually cost more; and making that team play well is even more difficult because technical players usually aren't very disciplined. So a lot of teams just give up and play the easy way. Barcelona, Spain and Germany set trends that some teams follow, but trends usually come from successes. This year we've seen a lot of solid teams go far in tournaments, and I'm afraid that trend is going to go the other way. That's where maybe you start thinking about changing some rules...
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GGWP portugal. I think the portuguese win is fitting the tournament.
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who won "player of the tournament" award?
edit: wow how come that this match had not many viewers from Germany? 17,68m watched it yesterday. France vs Iceland (18,93m) and Portugal vs Wales (17,78m) had more viewers.
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So the game was shit right? :D I'm glad I watched some tv series instead lol
MVP of this Euro was Pandemona with his badass opening posts. Mad props dude!
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On July 11 2016 10:38 ZeromuS wrote:
Portugal finally won and we did it without Ronaldo on the field for the final.
They had a gameplan and stuck to it. For once the team didn't look like a lot of individuals playing but like a real team this year. Say what you will about it being boring or highly defensive, I think Portugal saw what had to be done and did it well. There was no way we could have gone all out offense all game against France, we would never win that way.
The handball free kick call was probably the only real bad call the referee made. It was overall a really clean game considering how high the tensions were and the cards only started rolling when tired legs and strained minds started to make mistakes with their challenges on both sides.
Somehow eder scored and all you need is one moment of brilliance to win offensively. Though i will say Rui Patricio put the team on his back today, he made a ton of very very good saves.
The ref was far from being great imo.
Did not give a foul against Ronaldo (must have been a card imo). Same with Pepe where pushed someone with both hands right before a corner kick.
It was not game changing though, which is good, but it was not really a good performance. Especially bad for Ronaldo.
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On July 11 2016 16:22 gTank wrote:Show nested quote +On July 11 2016 10:38 ZeromuS wrote:
Portugal finally won and we did it without Ronaldo on the field for the final.
They had a gameplan and stuck to it. For once the team didn't look like a lot of individuals playing but like a real team this year. Say what you will about it being boring or highly defensive, I think Portugal saw what had to be done and did it well. There was no way we could have gone all out offense all game against France, we would never win that way.
The handball free kick call was probably the only real bad call the referee made. It was overall a really clean game considering how high the tensions were and the cards only started rolling when tired legs and strained minds started to make mistakes with their challenges on both sides.
Somehow eder scored and all you need is one moment of brilliance to win offensively. Though i will say Rui Patricio put the team on his back today, he made a ton of very very good saves. The ref was far from being great imo. Did not give a foul against Ronaldo (must have been a card imo). Same with Pepe where pushed someone with both hands right before a corner kick. It was not game changing though, which is good, but it was not realy good. Especially bad for Ronaldo.
Yellow for Koscielny when Eder handballed was kinda game deciding error as 10/10 times he would try to tackle in the situation leading to goal of he weren't on yellow.
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On July 11 2016 16:01 Dingodile wrote:
who won "player of the tournament" award?
edit: wow how come that this match had not many viewers from Germany? 17,68m watched it yesterday. France vs Iceland (18,93m) and Portugal vs Wales (17,78m) had more viewers.
Payet. They tried a new ranking system, game by game. Since he was good during groupstage and reached the final, he won basically xD Fun thing is he passed Griezmann with the final...
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=2016/players/index.html
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On July 11 2016 16:30 lprk wrote:Show nested quote +On July 11 2016 16:22 gTank wrote:On July 11 2016 10:38 ZeromuS wrote:
Portugal finally won and we did it without Ronaldo on the field for the final.
They had a gameplan and stuck to it. For once the team didn't look like a lot of individuals playing but like a real team this year. Say what you will about it being boring or highly defensive, I think Portugal saw what had to be done and did it well. There was no way we could have gone all out offense all game against France, we would never win that way.
The handball free kick call was probably the only real bad call the referee made. It was overall a really clean game considering how high the tensions were and the cards only started rolling when tired legs and strained minds started to make mistakes with their challenges on both sides.
Somehow eder scored and all you need is one moment of brilliance to win offensively. Though i will say Rui Patricio put the team on his back today, he made a ton of very very good saves. The ref was far from being great imo. Did not give a foul against Ronaldo (must have been a card imo). Same with Pepe where pushed someone with both hands right before a corner kick. It was not game changing though, which is good, but it was not realy good. Especially bad for Ronaldo. Yellow for Koscielny when Eder handballed was kinda game deciding error as 10/10 times he would try to tackle in the situation leading to goal of he weren't on yellow.
Hm, I didn't think about that tbh. It makes sense actually.
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On July 11 2016 16:01 Dingodile wrote:
who won "player of the tournament" award?
edit: wow how come that this match had not many viewers from Germany? 17,68m watched it yesterday. France vs Iceland (18,93m) and Portugal vs Wales (17,78m) had more viewers.
Because it was obvious that it would be a boring, shitty game? I would even go so far to say that while a lot of TV's were on, few actually watched
Pretty scared actually for international football in general. Worst tournament ever. Zero entertaiment value from a football perspective.
Obviously the storys of Iceland, Northern Ireland, .. are highly entertaining 
Maybe change the size of goals or sth. cause it'll get worse and worse
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On July 11 2016 10:28 WillyWanker wrote:
I'm not even mad Portugal won, they've lost titles in the past, I think it's deserved. Such a small nation but still tons of talent for generations now. The funny part is that they didn't win when they had the most talent and played good football, they played ugly and won this time, kind of reminiscent to Chelsea winning past their peak.
For me the best players of that team were Pepe, the perfect wall (well except for that opportunity Gignac had), Joao Mario (just 23 and played like Vidal) and Guerreiro. Ronaldo was important but I don't think he delivered a single 70-80% performance this tournament. Nonetheless, when he plays bad, his team wins (RM 2014 and 2016, now the Euro), quite a funny coincidence.
For France, how can we judge their performance? 2 real opponents, one undeserved win, one loss. Yet we continue with the same coach for at least 2 more years. If France had a coach with football ideas that don't only rely on fielding muscle, we could actually play really well with the talent at hand. But ambition isn't really French and we'll say that he reached the final so he's a winner... Never forget HOW you accomplished that. Same could be said about Portugal but at least they won.
Yep. I wish people would remember Domenech and realize that reaching the finals doesn't always mean that the coach is good (per Arsène Wenger after the 2014 finals : "the greatest quality a coach can have is to have great players"). And I'd say reaching the finals with opponents being Romania, Albania, Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland and a diminished Germany is the minimum result you'd have expected.
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France13006 Posts
Not taking Benzema and the likes was very good tho.
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Well that's something we'll never know, I guess d: I don't know about Benzema/Sakho/Valbuena, but I don't understand why no Ben Arfa.
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The World Cup 2014 tied the record for most goals scored in a World Cup. It was a very entertaining event.
The format of this tournament is questionable, but those arguing to go back to 16 teams tend to be the ones on the Wales + Iceland bandwagon. Can't have it both ways people.
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EPT
what a legend! Guess every Portuguese fan gives no .. about that when he turns up to score the winner in a European championship final to win his country a title. Props! 
