Messigician
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Because its the qualifiers, every team face these type of opponents.
Just shows how much more brutal South America qualifiers are.
Because its the qualifiers, every team face these type of opponents.
Why does he get farmer teams so often?
because Europeans want to have Columbus Day as well
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.
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.
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...
Barcaforum hyped up this game and he didn?t score in the end