Comments on: Live: Portugal vs. Netherlands

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:37:34 +0000

To be honest we lost against chelsea because of our lack of finishing..I bet we would have done better with villa..but seeing how bad he’s injury was I seriously dought he’ll be able to perform very well after a long spell on the side.Affelay,keita should be sold of cuz they seriously don’t give anything to barca.keita just loses possessesion easily all the time.and affelay isn’t barca material,he’s just not good enough.so I suggest we get Oriol Romeu back,loan tello and cuenca..and buy Matt Hummels,Bortia And Suares.2 centre backs and an attacker.and I don’t know maybe its just me but Jordi alba is overhyped.

By: serko

serko — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:48:36 +0000

Almost 2 years? it hasn't even been a year and a half of which: he was supposed to impress you when exactly? in the first 5 months when he almost had no playing time to impress anyone to begin with, or the second 12 months when he was injured the vast majority of the time, and in the last months barely had competetive game minutes to get into any sort of rythm. you sir, are a dirty opportunist.
He came in januari 2011, the season last till end of may, not even 5 months. He barely got starting positions, which is logical, he had to adapt, when he did he showed some moments of promise, some moments of unease because he was not used to the style of play yet.
Then preseason 2011-2012 he was clearly adapting and in an upward spiral, everyone agreed on that, it was looking hopeful. But before the season even got underway properly he got injured. pretty much the entire 2011-2012 season was gone, when exactly was he supposed to impress you with his leadership skills? While he was walking around in crutches? Now at Euro 2k12, without barely any playing minutes at all, he has to stand there as the star of the team, a team that has no build up or ball circulation speed of any kind. Every time the defenders need to build up they are so slow in passing that by the time they pass it a flank player or midfielder like for instance Affelay, he's tightly marked already. He tries to play passing game he was being taught at barca, but the ball circulation speed from the back was horrible. This is his fault how? Seriously. try again, mate, your story sucks.

By: LeRoy01

LeRoy01 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:37:39 +0000

I can't understand it either . I guess , after Holland reached the WC final , the Dutch football authority were concerned that one of the big European clubs would approach Van Marwijk to coach their team . Now he can forget it .

I'm convinced that Van Marwijk will either resign or get fired .
This is the worst showing ever by Holland in either EC or WC .

Yes, Germany were at full strength . I was NOT very impressed with their performance .

Don't get me wrong , Germany is a good team but nowhere as good as Spain .

Speaking of Spain . No one should take Croatia lightly . They are a quality team .

If Croatia beats Spain and Italy beats the Irish , Spain is out .But I doubt very much if this scenario would come true .

Spain is just too good !!

By: T11

T11 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:27:10 +0000

this is Euro2012 not Euro2008!!!

By: T11

T11 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:26:39 +0000

Portugal can meet Spain in Semis, not Germany!!!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:00:18 +0000

Their chance was Euro 2004

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:59:52 +0000

You mean he didn't impress you while he was on the injured list? He came 2 winters ago and was injured nearly all this past season. How do you get 2 years from that?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:56:35 +0000

Spain and Russia played each other twice in Euro 2008, and the second time wasn't the final.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:55:05 +0000

A strategy of deliberate fouling will eventually result in players getting sent off. Mou knew what he was getting himself into; not every ref is Howard Webb!

By: 1234

1234 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:34:12 +0000

ronaldo still far behind messi… iniesta is the 2nd best player right now

By: 1234

1234 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:32:13 +0000

Are u mentally ill?

By: theodore micheal joubert.

theodore micheal joubert. — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:03:35 +0000

This is a good dutch team that played badly, portugal played good, good for them a, ronaldo scored boohoo, messi scored a hat-trick against who? Brazil. A much better players scores more than ronaldo against a superior team I think that says it all. Secondly club wise messi also out-scored and out-assisted ronaldo, ronaldo had 63 goals, mess had 74. There’s a reason only women. And captain cry-baby believe he is better than messi, the stats speak for themselves. Portugal could not beat germany, spain, italy or france on their best day, they had a lucky day against a weak unit, no weak units in the play-offs

By: Barca_4ever

Barca_4ever — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:59:20 +0000

oh, thats sucks.

By: Barca_4ever

Barca_4ever — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:54:14 +0000

I can see that Barca fans are so damn bored when fans want Bendtner at Barca.

By: m86

m86 — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:53:35 +0000

haaa,u're still alive?! die,muthaf.ucka',die ! .I.