Match Day Thread Euro 2016 Thread

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Is that an important point brought up by studio (only slightly a dig this) but any other team if somebody is missing free kicks and penalties this much
....someone else would take over.

On one side this proves my point earlier abut people being afraid of saying to him..but tbf you'd always give it to him...

His record from free kicks for Madrid over last 5 years is shocking. They did a comparison on sky article and he hadn't scored for about 3 years or somethings!
 
He got balloon d or when he won **** all so I think he's ego is from his point justified.

Great player but how the **** he won over ribbery is a ****ing mystery.

**** knows what the media and like would have done if other way round. Called it a crime lol

Ribery? You're joking surely.
 
Is that an important point brought up by studio (only slightly a dig this) but any other team if somebody is missing free kicks and penalties this much
....someone else would take over.

On one side this proves my point earlier abut people being afraid of saying to him..but tbf you'd always give it to him...
He should definitely be dropped from free kick duty, I don't think I have seen him score one for almost 2 years, penalty's you know before the kick if he will score or not but he does so much more often than miss.
 
His record from free kicks for Madrid over last 5 years is shocking. They did a comparison on sky article and he hadn't scored for about 3 years or somethings!

Yeh agreed. His free kicks are just on rep from his United days tbh. At Real they've been shocking.
 
His record from free kicks for Madrid over last 5 years is shocking. They did a comparison on sky article and he hadn't scored for about 3 years or somethings!
Out of interest
..is there anyone else in the Portugal team that takes the free kicks or penalties as a matter of course for their club? Be fair to point out if not...
 
Also...don't get this argument about the lower teams lowering the quality...up until this one...as a comp the Euros has always been seen as a better quality over all in terms of the teams in it...

Sorry, yes the wee teams are sitting back but name the usual top teams with quality strikers...or any strikers?

Feck me after watching the matches so far I'm starting to understand why Roy brought 5 of them....
Seem to be a real lack of quality strikers world wide atm, everyone is ACM these days.
 
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I think in some national psyche it's a seniority thing. I'm sure I've heard the longest serving player for Italy is always captain. Likewise I think Figo was taking Portugal's pens right to the end. He was captain also. I'm not sure but I think there's some heirarchy stuff going on with some continental teams maybe.
Spain made that mistake making cassilias captain so undroppable.

Who knows what the right position for captain is but they should like everyone else be droppable or what's the point in vice captain?
 
Spain made that mistake making cassilias captain so undroppable.

Who knows what the right position for captain is but they should like everyone else be droppable or what's the point in vice captain?

Ronaldo's their best player by a country mile and then some. Dropping him would be crazy. But someone else should definitely take the free kicks. It makes sense for him to be on the end of them. That's the way it used to work between him and Figo! I think Deco used to as well.
 
Ronaldo's their best player by a country mile and then some. Dropping him would be crazy. But someone else should definitely take the free kicks. It makes sense for him to be on the end of them. That's the way it used to work between him and Figo! I think Deco used to as well.
Didn't nani take free kicks in his utd time? No idea if any good as he was probably told he was down pecking order as Ronaldo was there as well.
 
Out of interest
..is there anyone else in the Portugal team that takes the free kicks or penalties as a matter of course for their club? Be fair to point out if not...

Id imagine moutinho takes one from recollection. Didn't Nani take some for United?
 
Portugal problem is they have lots of good players but have never had a line leading striker. I can remember way back looking at them with just one striker in 1998 and a **** tonne of attackers


They've always been the same.

To ought they'd total control of the game but couldn't score
 
But the trophy is for individual achievements, not team achievements <doh>
So Ronaldo did what exactly?

Oh yeah Won nothing <doh>

Like I said, probably been a few utd fans calling the police for a major crime commited if ribbery had won <laugh>:emoticon-0172-mooni