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Ally McCoist on the Ronaldo substitution "I'm just looking forward to seeing Ramos pat him on the head while coming off the pitch".😅
Row Z coming up from this free kick.
No, into the wall. Either way, he wasn't going to score.
Wow.
A Ronaldo FK straight into the wall.
Don't see them much at all.
Or someone in the wall getting bruised shins.
Ronaldos free kicks are gas. The exaggerated stance, the puffing the cheeks out, then he invariably either hits it into the wall or way over .
The most I've seen Ronaldo press and the quickest too, of course not what the team are currently doing but sure why not
Hasn’t been a good contest in the last 16 at all. Some very one sided games, and very little drama. Hope the Quarters are better.
England-France probably the most anticipated match of the tournament so far, hope it delivers.
Hehe hehe
Up your bollix
Love it! R😡nald🤬
Commentators still haven't copped it. Still call it a dangerous situation.
And 2 penalty shootouts.
Even the penos didn’t have a lot of drama really.
Fabulous finish from Leao!
Some player.
Everybody but Ronaldo. 6-1.
Fair play lad.....better off sticking it in yourself.
Don't bother sending it in for that fool.
That is such a Leao goal.
Ronnie on the back post watching how it's done.
6 of worst penalties I've ever seen taken.
Another blank eh Ronaldo ?
Sure it's not all bad, your country is through to the quarters
I know that doesn't mean much to you, but cheer up.
Another team that figured out they are better off without Ronaldo.
Kudos to the Portugal manager. Takes no BS.
Round of 16 Results
Netherlands 3 V 1 United States of America
Argentina 2 V 1 Australia
France 3 V 1 Poland
England 3 V 0 Senegal
Japan 1 V 1 Croatia Croatia win on pens 3-1
Brazil 4 V 1 Korea Republic
Morocco 0 V 0 Spain Morocco win on pens 3-0
Portugal 6 V 1 Switzerland
Well done lad......make sure you show Ronaldo the match ball you've claimed with your hattrick
That's by far the best Portugal have played all tournament and a lot of it to do with Ramos starting ahead of Ronaldo
Massive decision now for Santos on whether to keep Ronaldo on the bench for the quarters
Ten Hag watching the match this evening.
He can't Ronnie is off alone to sulk.
Fking pathetic seeing him trying to close everything down. Absolutely desperate stuff.
Manager would be sacked if he drops a fella who just scored a hattrick for a fella who can really only play at this level for a short period of time - no way that happens.
My XI of the Round of 16 (5-3-2):
G) Bono (Morocco)
RWB) Dumfries (Netherlands)
CB) Pepe (Portugal)
CB) Silva (Brazil)
CB) Saiss (Morocco)
LWB) Blind (Netherlands)
CM) Paqueta (Brazil)
DM) Amrabat (Morocco)
CM) Bellingham (England)
(F) Ramos (Portugal)
F) Mbappe (France)
Manager: Walid Regragui (Morocco)
Honourable mentions: Livakovic (Croatia), Guerreiro (Portugal), Henderson (England), Foden (England), Vini Jr. (Brazil), Messi (Argentina), Giroud (France).
Just realised no football tomorrow. We'll all be having withdrawal symptoms.
Portugal win 6-1 and 90% of the analysis is about a lad that didn't start or score
Great performance by Portugal, thought the Swiss would put it up to them
Seems Santos got the selection spot on.
Can't wait to see the back of him and Messi. But at least they earned it.
Worst of all is the amount we have to talk about Neymar.
Quarter-finals
Friday 9th December
Croatia V Brazil - (15:00) - Live on BBC One
Netherlands V Argentina - (19:00) - Live on BBC One
Saturday 10th December
Morocco V Portugal - (15:00) - Live on ITV 1
England V France - (19:00) - Live on ITV 1
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