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Should be a good watch, but I can only see one winner though. To be honest I've never seen Angola play so maybe they can surprise me.

Last time they met in 2001 Angola had 4 players sent off and the game was abandoned, lets hope for more of the same :thup:

5 Angolan players to be sent off

Will be really interesting game.. But, I saw Angola in January in African Nations Cup and they weren't overly impressing. But this is going to be hard game for Portugal, and Angola will be more passionate than ever. They want to win this game more than anything, just like Senegal wanted to win France in 2002.. Though Senegal actually had really good squad, Angola's squad is not that good.

But, there's chance for surprise there, Angola can be better than anyone thinks.

FIGO FIGO FIGO

They can get a bit physical like. Just the ticket to alarm our preening, diving European cousins. :lol: :lol:

If Portugal don't win this by three or four they will be berated by their country. Reminds me of a nother country to be honest where winning counts for nothing unless you win well! tongue.gif

1-0 Portugal 5 minutes Pauleta.

Shocking defending.....!!!

Ah well. Unlucky Angola they tried hard.

Ricardo...What happened there? Where's the sniper? :obi:

crap missed that... harldy surprised though

hold any tickets parky?

if portugal step up the pace i think we can get to watch a real mauling here....

i know it is against a shit side, but pauleta looks lively, just kicked the keeper in the gut :roll:s

One of the 1/4 finals will be here. Will look into it once we see who is playing here. Depends if you're ready to splash.

Old Akwa likes his overhead.

Cristiano Ronaldo please **** off anywhere

US commentary mentioned he doesn't have a club.  Sign him up Glenn!

Have Anglola got Henri Laconte out there?! :shock:

Im waiting for the thread

miguel still plays in benfica, right? would LOVE to see him here.. never gonna happen though bluecry.gif

Why does Ronaldo pull a face like a toddler who's had his toys taken away whenever he shoots off target or has a shot saved?

Loco... it's that haircut that's fuckin' loco, man :lol:

:lol:


See Figo stayed down just long enough to get him booked. bluesleep.gif

yes - he really boils my piss that boy. no doubt he has talent, but he is so bleeding annoying.... but i would love for him to score, as he is on my fantasy team  :lol:

portugal should have been at least 3-0 up.... they had quite a few major chances, even though they don't seem quite at their best...

Valencia no?

yeah, you're right. i had no idea he moved there..
i wish we got him two summers ago, but we ended up with carr instead!

Anyway....When will the blood letting start? bluecool.gif

65mins

anyone's sound muted for some reason?

Mantorras is on. Bit tasty apparently.

Taste's like chicken

Christine is in tears he's been subbed.

:lol:

Mine. Muted so I can't hear that **** Pleat, that is :thup:

I've just put a few quid on there being a sending off.  It's weird watching a match wishing every challenge to be a dangerous one. :oops:

embarrasing that portugal cannot prove a bit more tbh

on comes our beloved hugo viana

hugo on

COMMON HUGO!

Viana looks so much fitter than in his last season here.

Pleat knows nothing.

He does have a degree you know.

In Gods name why didn't they start with the lad Mantorras? blueupset.gif

Obviously not a degree in commentating.

I'd love to see Hugo back on Tyneside but somehow I can't see it happening :(

Shame, I always liked him

good shot by maniche there....

We'd have to buy him back off Valencia

At the end of the day its the Brazil 'B' team.

crap match tbh.... well, hopefully tomorrows matches will be more interesting...

Apparently he's already been transfer listed there.. Don't know if it's true, heard that from someone in Portugal.

lol, which makes Angola, the Brazil 'C' team.

Quite lookin forward to Italy v Ghana. :lol:

I thought it was quite good

I'd hazard a guess; because he's not very good?

Me too, but I'm huge fan of Portugal and African football, so of course I'm more interested in these kind of games.

Portugal played just like us.

Not as such, but Valencia are wanting to offer him plus money for Simao Sabrosa.

they were better tbh. Mainly because of their passing moves.

We scored then defended throughout, whereas they had something like 70% of the possesion. So i'm told.

defending is one word for it

We both scored early on and played alright first half, then sat back and didn't attack, handing the impetus to the inferior opposition. Also, both teams took off an influencial player for no real reason.

Portugal still retained possession, we didn't. Ronaldo was taken off because he was on a yellow.

2% difference on the stats.

Angola had a lot of possession in the last 15 minutes in their own half

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That doesn't take away the fact Portugal dominated possession throughout the 2nd half

Dominated, apart from a third of it? :lol:

Put it this way, IMO both England and Portugal were decent first half and shitty second half respectively.

that was tongue in cheek, but I felt Angola had little meaningful possession and Portugal looked more comfortable than we did vs Paraguay, probably down to Angola being a worse team.

On the contrary, I thought Paraguay never looked like scoring at all, despite our lack of quality second half. They were shit.

yeah when it came to the final ball they were shocking, Santa Cruz had a bit of a shitter, but their attacks against us were more coherent and they got in behind us a few times.

Portugal = looked comfortable going forward with good build up play and interlinking. What let them down much of the time was the final ball, players not being on the same wavelength, and a few times making a mess of good attacking chances - especially Simao last night. Theyre a fluid side going forward, Figo through the middle is a quality playmaker and the movement around him is top class from Simao/C.Ronaldo/Pauletta. Where they lack is finishing power, can see them creating the chances or getting in good positions to create chances, but ultimately struggling to turn that attacking threat into goals.

England = looked utter shiite, dont play as a team, struggle for creativity, cant maintain possession, have too many players who arent comfortable on the ball, and players who dont fit into the system/formation being employed.