Spain v portugal /Rus v greece

KdjaCL

0-0 Spain
2-0 to russia.


Who have thought that , portugal doing most of the running v spain.
Been switching channels a lot RTE are crap (ronaldos crossing been crap ,did they see his cross for Costa? he has played well every game) BBC have weird sound co commentar sound is low.

kdjac

TwoShedsJackson

BBC have the crowd noise up much louder than RTE - better atmosphere on the BBC.

Portugal would want to get their fingers out - they don't look like doing it right now.

Big Ears

Russia 2-1 Greece . If it stays this score in this game Greece qualify no matter what .

thejollyrodger

BBC have the crowd noise up much louder than RTE - better atmosphere on the BBC.

I've noticed that as well, I thought it was my poor reception. RTE should defintely sort their sound out, I would prefer to hear the crowd and ACTUALLY hear John Giles when he is talking.

However the commetary on RTE seems a lot better than on the BBC. Some of the fellas they have on - Ian Wright and that guy with the red hair WTF are they on about?

I was just about to say hasnt portugal put on a dreadful display but they have scored:D !! I want to see portugal but their team looked terrible at times.

KdjaCL

Spain have to get the finger out now ,Morientes for that Wackeem lad ,man hes worth 20 million

kdjac

mike65

Spain never fail to dissapoint! Portugal were pretty crap but a great goal when it finally came, and after that - mayhem! How mnay chances did both sides spurn. Good for competition they got through. Well done Greece too.

Mike.

thejollyrodger

great to see portugal through. Spain totally under performed all through the game, they were quite negative throughout. Not the classic that i expected but decent enough..

Pigman II

Seriously, what is it with Spain?

Of all the European superpowers they are by far the biggest underperformers! Startlingly, they haven't got past the QuarterFinals of either a World Cup or a Euro for 20 years now and this weeks failure is the 2nd time in the last 4 tournaments that they've failed to even navigate past the group stages!

It's not as if they (before tonight anyway) were playing particularily badly either and IMHO should have won the first 2 games with room to spare.

Pepe LeFrits

Terrific - more antics from Maniche and Deco to come.

eirebhoy

Originally posted by thejollyrodger
I would prefer to hear the crowd and ACTUALLY hear John Giles when he is talking.

I'd just prefer to hear the crowd and have Giles muted TBH.

Originally posted by thejollyrodger
Ian Wright and that guy with the red hair WTF are they on about?

You don't know who Gordan Strachan is?

Portugal were lucky to win the group, it looks like they'll avoid France for a while so. Tomorrow night should be interesting.

jesus_thats_gre

Originally posted by TwoShedsJackson
BBC have the crowd noise up much louder than RTE - better atmosphere on the BBC.

Portugal would want to get their fingers out - they don't look like doing it right now.

In all fairness, this is always the case with RTE. With other channels like Sky Sports, BBC and ITV you can jack the sound up and really enjoy the atmosphere. With RTE all you hear is some hick who refuses to learn how to pernounce foreign names. I would prefer to hear the English commentators talk about 1966 than listen to the likes of Giles, Houton, Bonner and all the other boring ****es.

Dewey

I thought it was a great match but there should of been more goals. Spain only have themselfs to blame, they should of beaten Greece by a few goals and been on there way to the quater-finals but they could only manage a 1-1 draw. If they hadnt of started tonights game looking to get the draw and gone for a win then I dont think Portugal would be in the Quater-Finals now. But i'm delighted to see Portugal still in the tourament.

I was listening to John Toshack on TV3 and he said dont be surprised to see Russia beat Greece tonight and far play to him he got it spot on.

Does anyone know who gives out Man of the Match?? Deco got it and i didnt think he deserved it. There was a Portugal defender (cant remember his name) who missed a sitter at the end with the header, i think he should of gotten MOTM, his defending was brilliant at times.

Pepe LeFrits

Costinha, he's not a defender

Dewey

Originally posted by kaids
Costinha, he's not a defender

Well he defended great tonight.

TwoShedsJackson

Originally posted by kaids
Terrific - more antics from Maniche and Deco to come.

Spot the bitter Man United supporter.

gandalf

Hmm not so sure about that Twosheds. Deco especially was a disappointment, how he won MotM is beyond me. All I saw bar one or two good touches was him falling over alot (normally quite easily) or him giving the ball away.

Glad to see Portugal thru though, makes a tourny more interesting if the hosts are still involved

PHB

Spot the biggest Arsenal supporter on boards

He probably secretly supports them

gandalf

Naw PHB its worse Twosheds supports Newcastle !!!!!

(hmm can't talk thou that 20 quid I lost to SheroN cause I said they would get relegated a couple of seasons ago still hurts !!!)

LoneGunM@n

Originally posted by gandalf
Deco especially was a disappointment, how he won MotM is beyond me. All I saw bar one or two good touches was him falling over alot (normally quite easily) or him giving the ball away.

I can't understand how Carvalho didn't get MotM ... he was outstanding in defence & seemed to be everywhere ... made a great last ditch tackle against Torres, I think :dunno:[even though it was off-side]!

thejollyrodger

You don't know who Gordan Strachan is?

Ja, thats him. WTF is he on about, Linker/ stupid puns asks him a queston and then he start babbling on about formations with his finger... Even the rest of the commetators dont understand him.:D

Ian Wright... great player but looks like he is sitting at home having a laugh at all the games rather than on camera in front of millions making an effort.

Seriously, what is it with Spain?

I couldnt agree more, a great team on paper and play some nice football but they have a serious problem when it comes to delivering the goods. Maybe its because they are so regional and have a national identity problem ? Well Im glad in some ways that the teams that are out to play negatively are getting stung for it.

I thought Ronaldo played reasonable well last night but he looks a little weak or something. Having all the tricks in the book is ok to watch but its a matter of his actual delivery thats dodgy

TwoShedsJackson

Originally posted by PHB
Spot the biggest Arsenal supporter on boards

He probably secretly supports them

Oh well forget about that comment then, I just read his sig and saw he had a quote from Kolo Toure in it

MisterAnarchy

Spain blow it yet again.
Starting lineup was all wrong.
Raul should have been dropped.
He has been absolute rubbish for the last 6 months both in La Liga and the national side.
Morientes should have started.