2012 UEFA European Championship

(27-06-2012 23:01 )mikedafc Wrote:  I'm amazed Ronaldo wasn't taking one earlier in the penalty shootout

he was thinking about scoring the winner!

Indeed he was.The glory hunter was writing his own headlines,he didn't bank on his supporting cast f@#king up (couldn't of happend to a nicer fella)

(28-06-2012 00:09 )the truth Wrote:  Indeed he was.The glory hunter was writing his own headlines,he didn't bank on his supporting cast f@#king up (couldn't of happend to a nicer fella)

I think there was a mix up in Portugal's penalty takers. I thought Alves didn't look that confident to be honest for his. i think one of the Spanish took a leaf out of italy's book and chipped the Portuguese goalie. It lookecd pretrty similar. I bet Fabregas thought he'd missed but that was a luck rebound. It's such a shame it ended in a shootout, because I expected it to have been a good game.

(28-06-2012 00:09 )the truth Wrote:  The glory hunter was writing his own headlines,he didn't bank on his supporting cast f@#king up (couldn't of happend to a nicer fella)

No, not true. It was the Portuguese coach who put Ronaldo down for the 5th penalty, not Ronaldo himself.

(27-06-2012 23:01 )mikedafc Wrote:  I'm amazed Ronaldo wasn't taking one earlier in the penalty shootout

No.. he obviously wanted to take 'The Winning' penalty. But the script went wrong.

(28-06-2012 08:10 )Charlemagne Wrote:  No.. he obviously wanted to take 'The Winning' penalty. But the script went wrong.

No, he wanted to take the first penalty, as he did recently for Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final. It was the Portugal coach Paulo Bento who asked him to take the 5th.

Portugal have done this before - in the previous 2 penalty shootouts that Portugal have faced Ronaldo has taken the 4th and 5th penalties and this one would have been the 5th again.

whoever is the next coach of portugal should drop ronaldo from the squad along with nani or preferably from great hight.

(28-06-2012 16:00 )bigguy01 Wrote:  whoever is the next coach of portugal should drop ronaldo from the squad along with nani or preferably from great hight.

What has Bento left Portugal? You can't drop Ronaldo, he's a great goal scorer and had a great tournament. My opinion towards Nani is mixed, he is inconsistent, but when he puts his mind to it, he's good. If you leave them out, who do you replace them with?

Going for the Italians tonight as they always beat germany in competive games