European Championships Quarter-Final: Portugal 🇵🇹 vs France 🇫🇷

[Carpy]

1-1

win on penalties

 

[tonyw]

1-0 France.

Best central defense in the competition, one of the two best defensive midfielders. Ronaldo will get no change at all from Upamecano & Saliba.

And though their attack keeps misfiring, they'll find a way to shin one in, or get a ridiculous deflection........

 

[Basham Wonderland]

Not exactly Austria v Turkey, this one. England and France are sucking the entertainment out of this tournament.

Mbappe is shite.

 

[Osei Yaw]

Rio Ferdinand talks non-stop shite. It's like they needed someone to fill in and they just got a YouTube streamer to do it.

 

[holdsteady]

If England do play France in the final can it not just go straight to penalties? Save us all 120 minutes of being bored.

 

[SteMerritt]

If England do play France in the final can it not just go straight to penalties? Save us all 120 minutes of being bored.

Final score: England 0 France 0 AET. 0-0 after 496 penalties. Game abandoned with no winner due to supporter apathy.

 

[Village-Yellow]

Tis a bore

 

[Osei Yaw]

If England do play France in the final can it not just go straight to penalties? Save us all 120 minutes of being bored.

Surely you can't be serious. No way I'd sacrifice a 120 minute defensive masterclass.

If we want it to come home we've got to earn it.

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

Another 30 minutes

 

[unification]

France have scored three goals in five games - and two of those have been own goals and one a penalty.

Zut alors.

 

[Basham Wonderland]

Pepe is the first player at any Euros to qualify for a free bus pass in the UK.

 

[Bitter]

The miss by Ronaldo, tell he plays in a pub league.

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

At least Portugal trying yo attack ...France dreadful

 

[Osei Yaw]

Pepe is the first player at any Euros to qualify for a free bus pass in the UK.

Poor bloke deserves it for the number of times he's had to witness Ronaldo smash a free kick into the wall.

 

[tonyw]

They must have hired Martinez purely because he would do whatever Ronaldo told him.

No other excuse for the fact that he’s still on the pitch whilst all the genuinely dangerous Portuguese players have been subbed……

 

[Northstandboy]

Some poor finishing!

 

[Steve Gilbert]

France and England stinking this tournament out so I expect us both to be in the final.

 

[Belgium Yellow]

At least Dembele is at the races. Ronaldo is embarrassing.

 

[Basham Wonderland]

My plan of going to bed and forgetting about that game has been scuppered.

The only thing that could make this any worse is seeing Ronaldo take a winning pen, wheeling off with his cheek filler and bleached dentures.

Now Gary and Rio advocating for scrapping extra time because the superstars are tired. Imbeciles.

 

[Belgium Yellow]

Ronaldo not crying this time because he scored his penalty.

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

France celebrating like they actually played football !
Hope to god that Spain smash the boring bstards

 

[unification]

France have scored three goals in five games - and two of those have been own goals and one a penalty.

Zut alors.

France have now made it to the semis despite two 0-0s en route .

 

[Steve Gilbert]

My plan of going to bed and forgetting about that game has been scuppered.

The only thing that could make this any worse is seeing Ronaldo take a winning pen, wheeling off with his cheek filler and bleached dentures.

Now Gary and Rio advocating for scrapping extra time because the superstars are tired. Imbeciles.

I tend to agree with scrapping extra time. It is pointless 9 times out of 10 and penalties are much more exciting.

 

[Northstandboy]

Did France win the Euros? That celebration reminded me of Bolton celebrating their play off game like they’d’ won it!

 

[Carpy]

It's alright Spain will turn them over in the semis... going early with my prediction

 

[unification]

I tend to agree with scrapping extra time. It is pointless 9 times out of 10 and penalties are much more exciting.

It has improved League Cup ties, for certain. I can’t think of many periods of extra time that have been genuinely good. The World Cup final in 2022 and England v Portugal in 2004. That’s about it.

It’s hard to come up with a solution that isn’t gimmicky though.

 

[Belgium Yellow]

It's alright Spain will turn them over in the semis... going early with my prediction

Yes, but Spain would thrash England whereas there is a chance of beating France on penalties.

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

I’d get rid of extra time as well. Going straight to penalties might make the end of games more exciting if teams go for it a bit more. They’re all knackered in these extra time periods

 

[holdsteady]

France have scored two own goals and one penalty in 5 games, make England look like Spurs under Ossie Ardiles, just go straight to penalties for all France games from now on.

 

[Bath Yellow]

Cry baby Ronaldo never had a kick, played off the park by young 23yr old Arsenals William Saliba for the whole 120 minutes.