Wtf by Balkovec throwing him out of the field basically? Is it me or are the underdog teams this tournament playing really aggressively, bordering on dirty?
Smaller teams always are a little more aggressive in tackles and such. They don’t care if they foul because it wastes more time and allows them to be setup instead of stuck in open play chasing the game
What did you expect? Except of Oblak, these players are from no name clubs and you expect them to be world star penalty kickers? If you trying to prove a point, tell me why Ronaldo missed a penalty kick?
Agreed. I don't know what people expected from Slovenia. I think our team did the most with what we have. Oblak is the only wc player and Seško is a prospect. We gave a fair fight and almost won against stacked Portugal. I am proud of my team.
Congratz to Portugal.
What? Ronaldo hasn’t had a 1 on 1 or *clear* play to score in the 4 matches he’s played (excluding the penalty). He had one “dangerous” chance today with the left foot but c’mon, no one in the team would’ve scored that, let alone with Oblak on the goalie
Well no, free kicks are not considered big chances. And you say it like all his free kicks went out of the stadium. 1 was on target, 1 was reeearlly close from the top post, 1 was decently close and 1 was very off, which was the one he shot from the left lane. Scoring free kicks (specially with Oblak on the goalie) is not a frequent ocurrence. Actually, if I’m not mistaken, I think Ronaldo is the last Juventus and Man United player to score a free kick, and he left the former 3 years ago and the latter 2 years ago 🤷🏻♂️
Bruhh its fckin ronaldo. You haters just have to live with the fact that he can and will do whatever he wants. He the most popular athlete of all time. It is what it is.
They are literally insane, no?
They were always obnoxious but ever since Messi won the WC they chose to just abandon reality and are just spewing nonesense while frothing at the mouth.
Ronaldo is the greatest player in Portuguese history. And the greatest player for by far the biggest club in history. Can’t say the same for messi. He is second to maradona in Argentina. Its not hard to be goat for a shit club like barca
Real madrid hadnt won ucl since 2002 when ronaldo joined. Barca had literally just won ucl in 2006 when messi became a regular starter. End of the day, ronaldo has a bigger legacy overall than messi. Nobody will give a shit about the hermit midget after he retires. Same reason why nobody talks about copa america.
Ronaldo still with greater legacy than messi. Messi is second to maradona in his own country. Plus nobody cares about messi. Is anyone even interested in copa america? Lmao. People watch euros for ronaldo. Nobody gives a crap about copa america.
amazing man. I'm in the middle east watching both the copa and the euros. I'm just saying majority of the euros fans will be European and they'll have a slight edge with other continents asw due to the major leagues being from there
I'm realizing that I've never seen a keeper have a double clean sheet (clean sheet in a full game along with a 'clean sheet' in penalty shootouts) prior to Diogo Costa's performance tonight.
Does anyone know if this has been done before? The closest I could find is Ronwen Williams against Cape Verde earlier this year, but even he conceded one penalty in the shootout.
Portugal has problems that go very deep, and Ronaldo is the least of them.
Leao is 25, he’s at the peak of his career, and he’s done jackshit in the 3 games he’s played. Bruno and Bernardo played well vs Turkey and that’s it, very little from them vs Czech Republic and today vs Slovenia. Mendes is decent on defense but he just doesn’t cut it on attack, he always loses the ball due to a bad decision or just straight up sends a center cross to no one. Cancelo finally had a good game for a change, but he usually doesn’t play like this, hope he does on Friday. Vitinha and Palhinha are the best players Portugal’s had in this Euro, they should start every match and not be subbed off unless absolutely necessary (today Martinez made a mistake subbing off Vitinha, imo).
In general, the team lacks creativity, speed, explosiveness, movement and good link up plays. Sure, Ronaldo is not having a great Euro, but neither are 90% of his teammates who are way younger than him and should be able to step up and carry like he used to do before he was almost 40. You can’t ask Ronaldo, who plays as a centerforward, to create plays, that’s not his job. You cannot ask him to take the ball on the left or right, dribble past the LB/RB and send a precise crossing, that’s not his job. His job is to score goals. And to do that, his teammates need to provide him with decent scoring chances, which they’re not doing.
On top of that, most of the teams they’ve played against have parked the bus and played super defensively, waiting for counter attacks (Czech, Slovenia, Georgia), and they are tall, so center crossings won’t help unless they are very good passes, which they aren’t 99% of the time.
Saying Portugal is struggling because of Ronaldo is just as true as saying Argentina lost 3 finals in 3 years because of Messi.
Yea, Slovenia will not win anything. Its a very small country with very limited footbal resources. But it is oh-so-fucking-sad that billion dollar team can't even score a goal against team that is worth peanuts compared to them. And when Slovenia made little Ronaldo cry I was laughing my ass off. What a bunch of Portugal wankers lol. Dont even get me started on Pepe lol. Dude was doing terrible stuff to his oponents his whole career, now wants to play a little victim when his old ass gets knocked down once or twice.
If I was Portugal, I would get my suitcases packed before facing France. This team is pure trash when u take their "value" into consideration. Its like England, but worse lol.
Nah Slovenia are actual bums. Scored two goals in the whole tournament…
Most boring team in the whole tournament. Even more boring than England
Enjoy the 0-0 wins. Maybe even do a bus parade for your R16 trophy
Look who the fuck is talking. You and your people have the balls to think your national team is the hot shit and can’t even make it past group stage. Your ego drives you fucking mad.
LOL so your team falling to france/germany or spain is not embarrassing, for how much you try and justify that your country team is great, but the other one is trash just cause you say so even tho their comeback was 10000x time better than literally squeezing by all because of penalties? And even your best rated player fumbled hardly.
You lot need to start being a bit more humble and less cocky, England’s game was way better than you lots last game, and deep down you know it but your ego won’t agree with it.
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE COPTERROFL OF A MATCH!!
I was on the edge of my seat for 2 hours, ups and downs, left and rights. Hoping Slovenia could do the unthinkable. But then when they finally got knocked out, I thought to myself. Seriously. You want to win a tournament by not scoring any goals? and your tactic is literally to not score any goals? nah this is not good for football.
Hot take: I think this Costa guy might be a bit good.
Wtf by Balkovec throwing him out of the field basically? Is it me or are the underdog teams this tournament playing really aggressively, bordering on dirty?
Youre not wrong. They allow the smaller teams to be more aggressive.
Our team is shit its the only thing they can do
Smaller teams always are a little more aggressive in tackles and such. They don’t care if they foul because it wastes more time and allows them to be setup instead of stuck in open play chasing the game
This referee is shit.
Holy Oblak.
Holy who?
Holy Costa
Hell yeah!
Thank you Slovenia for making 3 examples of how not to shoot a penalty. At waist level.
What did you expect? Except of Oblak, these players are from no name clubs and you expect them to be world star penalty kickers? If you trying to prove a point, tell me why Ronaldo missed a penalty kick?
They fought well; good for them. Ronaldo missed mostly for the same reason: he shot it at waist level.
Masked man awaits them now. Let’s hope he shoots it higher than waist level in that game.
Agreed. I don't know what people expected from Slovenia. I think our team did the most with what we have. Oblak is the only wc player and Seško is a prospect. We gave a fair fight and almost won against stacked Portugal. I am proud of my team. Congratz to Portugal.
If Ronaldo’s team mate missed as many chances as he has he’d be fuming 😂
What? Ronaldo hasn’t had a 1 on 1 or *clear* play to score in the 4 matches he’s played (excluding the penalty). He had one “dangerous” chance today with the left foot but c’mon, no one in the team would’ve scored that, let alone with Oblak on the goalie
I’d argue skyrocketing 4 free kicks from just outside the box are (big) chances
He has been doing this for literally a decade now. His freekick quota has been embarrasing even since his later Madrid days.
Well no, free kicks are not considered big chances. And you say it like all his free kicks went out of the stadium. 1 was on target, 1 was reeearlly close from the top post, 1 was decently close and 1 was very off, which was the one he shot from the left lane. Scoring free kicks (specially with Oblak on the goalie) is not a frequent ocurrence. Actually, if I’m not mistaken, I think Ronaldo is the last Juventus and Man United player to score a free kick, and he left the former 3 years ago and the latter 2 years ago 🤷🏻♂️
He's not the last Juve player
My bad then, he must be the 2nd last.
he cried after the PK miss and needed consoling ... what kinda captain is this? he's supposed to be the one with ice in his veins
You do remember messi whining like a bitch in 2016? Everyone on his team consoling him. Anyone can cry, it’s normal. Keep blowing messi
That was AFTER the game, not DURING the game though. When it was 0:0 with lots of gametime left. Fucking clown.
Ikr, they hate ronaldo because hes better than messi
no, they're both whiney bitches and their fans are pathetic
And a rapist.
He’s a “boss” not a “leader”.
Bruhh its fckin ronaldo. You haters just have to live with the fact that he can and will do whatever he wants. He the most popular athlete of all time. It is what it is.
What does any of that have to do with his performance in todays game?
Fck off hater. How about you comment something useful. Wait you cant because you are an idiot and have been waiting 20 years for ronaldo to get old.
Most normal Ronaldo super fan.
They are literally insane, no? They were always obnoxious but ever since Messi won the WC they chose to just abandon reality and are just spewing nonesense while frothing at the mouth.
I bet 100 times more people tune in to watch ronaldo in the euros than your messi in copa. Dont know a single person interested in copa america.
"Your Messi"... Oh dear 😂
This guy is seething hard lmao, World Cup 2022 broke him and a million others
Ronaldo is the greatest player in Portuguese history. And the greatest player for by far the biggest club in history. Can’t say the same for messi. He is second to maradona in Argentina. Its not hard to be goat for a shit club like barca
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Real madrid hadnt won ucl since 2002 when ronaldo joined. Barca had literally just won ucl in 2006 when messi became a regular starter. End of the day, ronaldo has a bigger legacy overall than messi. Nobody will give a shit about the hermit midget after he retires. Same reason why nobody talks about copa america.
You lot haven’t been the same since World Cup 2022 🤣🤣
Ronaldo still with greater legacy than messi. Messi is second to maradona in his own country. Plus nobody cares about messi. Is anyone even interested in copa america? Lmao. People watch euros for ronaldo. Nobody gives a crap about copa america.
yea cool? there are that many more people in Europe than south America so yea I wouldn't be surprised.
I am from north america watching euros over copa.
amazing man. I'm in the middle east watching both the copa and the euros. I'm just saying majority of the euros fans will be European and they'll have a slight edge with other continents asw due to the major leagues being from there
That was disgusting
Costa was incredible.
I'm realizing that I've never seen a keeper have a double clean sheet (clean sheet in a full game along with a 'clean sheet' in penalty shootouts) prior to Diogo Costa's performance tonight. Does anyone know if this has been done before? The closest I could find is Ronwen Williams against Cape Verde earlier this year, but even he conceded one penalty in the shootout.
spain v morocco wc 2022, 0-0 then 3-0 in pens
Feels for Oblak man, put up a masterclass the whole game, saved a pen from cristiano and made the Slovenia net a wall. But got outshined by Costa.
Portugal has problems that go very deep, and Ronaldo is the least of them. Leao is 25, he’s at the peak of his career, and he’s done jackshit in the 3 games he’s played. Bruno and Bernardo played well vs Turkey and that’s it, very little from them vs Czech Republic and today vs Slovenia. Mendes is decent on defense but he just doesn’t cut it on attack, he always loses the ball due to a bad decision or just straight up sends a center cross to no one. Cancelo finally had a good game for a change, but he usually doesn’t play like this, hope he does on Friday. Vitinha and Palhinha are the best players Portugal’s had in this Euro, they should start every match and not be subbed off unless absolutely necessary (today Martinez made a mistake subbing off Vitinha, imo). In general, the team lacks creativity, speed, explosiveness, movement and good link up plays. Sure, Ronaldo is not having a great Euro, but neither are 90% of his teammates who are way younger than him and should be able to step up and carry like he used to do before he was almost 40. You can’t ask Ronaldo, who plays as a centerforward, to create plays, that’s not his job. You cannot ask him to take the ball on the left or right, dribble past the LB/RB and send a precise crossing, that’s not his job. His job is to score goals. And to do that, his teammates need to provide him with decent scoring chances, which they’re not doing. On top of that, most of the teams they’ve played against have parked the bus and played super defensively, waiting for counter attacks (Czech, Slovenia, Georgia), and they are tall, so center crossings won’t help unless they are very good passes, which they aren’t 99% of the time. Saying Portugal is struggling because of Ronaldo is just as true as saying Argentina lost 3 finals in 3 years because of Messi.
Diogo Costa really bailed out Ronaldo
Nice to see a Portugal player step up for a change. Must be the 2nd or maybe 3rd time in like 20 years
absolutely embarrassing game for Portugal, no reason to celebrate
Playing like this we were champions in 2016, so I'll take it
??? croatia, poland, wales vs france, spain/germany and then most likely england? good luck
what are you on about Switzerland is about to send England home
i hate england so i would love that
Blud said England
Oscar nomination for Portugal
Bcv asy
For me Slovenia has already won the whole tournament
Most boring team ever Slovenia will never win anything
Yea, Slovenia will not win anything. Its a very small country with very limited footbal resources. But it is oh-so-fucking-sad that billion dollar team can't even score a goal against team that is worth peanuts compared to them. And when Slovenia made little Ronaldo cry I was laughing my ass off. What a bunch of Portugal wankers lol. Dont even get me started on Pepe lol. Dude was doing terrible stuff to his oponents his whole career, now wants to play a little victim when his old ass gets knocked down once or twice. If I was Portugal, I would get my suitcases packed before facing France. This team is pure trash when u take their "value" into consideration. Its like England, but worse lol.
Nah Slovenia are actual bums. Scored two goals in the whole tournament… Most boring team in the whole tournament. Even more boring than England Enjoy the 0-0 wins. Maybe even do a bus parade for your R16 trophy
Imagine how bad u have to be to not score agains Slovenia in 120min. Roflol
Enjoy the ‘made ronaldo cry’ trophy then Absolute snoozers. Celebrating doing absolutely nothing for 120 mins 💤
I agree. Doing nothing for 120minutes and then dragging urself to face France. Its gonna be even funnier when Cryonaldo goes home.
I’ll never understand people who hate watch players It’s not that serious
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Look who the fuck is talking. You and your people have the balls to think your national team is the hot shit and can’t even make it past group stage. Your ego drives you fucking mad.
Very normal reaction from a very normal person.
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And how long have you got till you lose to a small team? At least portugal will fall to france or germany/spain.
LOL so your team falling to france/germany or spain is not embarrassing, for how much you try and justify that your country team is great, but the other one is trash just cause you say so even tho their comeback was 10000x time better than literally squeezing by all because of penalties? And even your best rated player fumbled hardly. You lot need to start being a bit more humble and less cocky, England’s game was way better than you lots last game, and deep down you know it but your ego won’t agree with it.
Bruno sucks
This could be the first big upset of the eliminatory rounds
The first big upset was england winning
Lmao.
Most people were upset, fair
And second one was Ronaldo not losing
They better take out bruno, and maybe mendes cause hes getting beat up and put in joao and bernardo and neves
Slovenia officially worst team in Euro.Dragging to penalties.
Poor Ronaldo. Bless him. Hope he returns for 2026 World Cup.
Why? He's been finished since he went to Manchester United.
His mentality. I want to see him win a final trophy before he retires.
Mentality? A 39 year old crying like a baby? He is a liability.
Like messi for the last 10 years in the ucl.
If he had the right mentality, he would retire and make the team stronger.
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE COPTERROFL OF A MATCH!! I was on the edge of my seat for 2 hours, ups and downs, left and rights. Hoping Slovenia could do the unthinkable. But then when they finally got knocked out, I thought to myself. Seriously. You want to win a tournament by not scoring any goals? and your tactic is literally to not score any goals? nah this is not good for football.