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Rassvet

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Quotes from portuguese pundits

"In Ronaldo's absence, Portugal play in a more relaxed and uncomplicated way, especially because there isn't a reference around who is actually bigger than the team. The pieces fit together naturally. With Ronaldo, the rest of the players seem to have their decision-making unconsciously affected by the need to pass the ball to him."

"The truth is that any team that faces Portugal nowadays knows that most of the balls are addressed to Ronaldo. Even though you have players like Felix, Jota, Bernardo and others like Pedro Neto coming through, you don't see much of that unpredictability that they are capable of providing with their clubs through line-breaking passes and in one-on-one situations.
 

Fati_Future_BallonDor

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56483572

Quotes from portuguese pundits

"In Ronaldo's absence, Portugal play in a more relaxed and uncomplicated way, especially because there isn't a reference around who is actually bigger than the team. The pieces fit together naturally. With Ronaldo, the rest of the players seem to have their decision-making unconsciously affected by the need to pass the ball to him."

"The truth is that any team that faces Portugal nowadays knows that most of the balls are addressed to Ronaldo. Even though you have players like Felix, Jota, Bernardo and others like Pedro Neto coming through, you don't see much of that unpredictability that they are capable of providing with their clubs through line-breaking passes and in one-on-one situations.

They are so good without Ronaldo that they couldnt score a goal without him against andorra, try it another time again rassvet :)
 

Rassvet

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They beat Croatia 4-1 and Sweden 3-0 without him this season but why look at that when we can find a match on a cow field with an entirely different set of players from 2017...
 

Vilarrubi

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Will be hilarious if he plays every minute of these next 3 games. Portugal could qualify in that group blindfolded and without him.

Inb4 he gets injured trying to statpad against farmers.

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Fati_Future_BallonDor

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They beat Croatia 4-1 and Sweden 3-0 without him this season but why look at that when we can find a match on a cow field with an entirely different set of players from 2017...

Its like saying argentinia won without Messi 2-1 against chile in copa 2016 but with him they lost, this can work one or two times but in the long term these players are crucial for their teams ;)
 
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