But Denmark and Sweden are friend nations. I hope Denmark doesnt give Sweden a lift :/
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Yup, I had forgotten to say, but I'm more worried about England than Spain for instance. After their loss against Usa I just can't help wondering if they won't lose against some team with no tradition in the Wc. Honestly, I think that's likely, but we'll see◆ T.D.A ◆ said:
Eh...? It's not that you guys missed chances as much as the obvious penalty you guys weren't given. We were so happy the referee didn't count it even though it was clear as day in the replay.
Football is a team sport, unfortunately for them.Messi and Ronaldo can't be legendary if they can't get lead their countries to glory or at least qualify for the WC
Ah how I laughed that night. The funny thing is from what I remember of the first two goals it'd hard to scream conspiracy. I'm praying for a France-Portugal playoff as well, in order to keep up the curse of the semi finalist.
Lets go back to Euro 2004! Group C with Italy, Bulgaria, Denmark and Sweden. Italy needed to win against Bulgaria in the last round and hope that the other match between Sweden and Denmark wouldnt end in a tie 2-2 or with more goals. Italy struggled but in the last minute they celebrated Cassano's goal and with the 2-1 result in the Sweden-Denmark match they celebrated the qualifying to the next round. But just as they scored that goal, Sweden scored with a flaw by the danish GK, which settled that one result that would kick Italy out of the Cup.
Its probably a coincidence, but the fact is I'm worried. I hope Denmark do fight for the 1st spot in the group.
It'd be fun to see Portugal go to the playoffs and have to play France xD
The thing is the legendary players in the past like Zidane, Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo, all did something for their country and led their team to glory.
So true
They all had great teams backing them up. That doesn't seem to be the case here. Despite having the potential to build up a pretty decent team, Argentina is like a horde of headless chickens running on the field (the prime example of this behavior would be Tévez). And Portugal has never given me the impression of being a strong team, just having a couple of good players now and then. The point is, no player can win matches on his own, not even those you mentioned. Moreover, Messi and C. Ronaldo aren't the kind of players who can take control of their team's play, they're most confortable when receiving the ball close to the goal with not so many defenders in front of them. So while they're in teams which cannot provide such opportunities their talents will be wasted.
I've said that before. The thing is Portugal suddenly had a crop of decent players and everyone speaks about them like they're the Dutch. Before Euro 96 the last time they had qualified for a senior tournament was France 84 and then Mexico 86. Before that was England 66 (I don't think they got to Mexico 4 years later). The fact is thanks to changes in qualifying Portugal and certain other nation (Yes I'm looking at you England. You did well this time but it could have gone oh so wrong) now have better odds at qualifying for tournaments. Which I suppose is why they look so great at the moment since they've been in everything since Euro 2000. Hell I think Belgium have a better qualifying record for the World Cup. And they aren't very good right now.