France leading 1-0
I've seen Portugal more on the attack, but France just seemed lucky.
Can anyone tell me why everybody is booing Cristiano Ronaldo?
deleted user 05.07.2006 16:04
Mr.Jingles wrote:
Can anyone tell me why everybody is booing Cristiano Ronaldo?
Because he's a fugly barsted!!!!!!!
..maybe France think he's a real threat because he made sure England was out..or maybe there are actually loooooooooads of England fans in the crowd just because they want to boo him.
so many answers!
xD
Probably because he is one of many people (Ronaldo being the worst) who have totally ruined this World Cup by diving everytime anyone comes anywhere near him.
Sorry, I'm not having soar grapes, but this Portugal team is am embarrassment to football.
OK, France won... not what I expected as I was cheering for Portugal.
Yes, Ronaldo might be a very skilled player but as true player of integrity and class he still has a lot of maturing to do.
I can't believe Figo missed that header that slipped out of Barthez' hands.
I really enjoyed the group stages.
Germany v Sweden and Argentina v Mexico were great games, Holland v Portugal was great comedy.
However, since then negativity and cheating has turned this tournament into a complete joke. Portugal along with Holland and the Italians should be ashamed. Let's introduce yellow cards afterwards for blatant diving like Pauleta's episode in the box, then if the fuckers do it again, send them home. They will soon stop.
I've been cheering on the Germans the past few weeks, they play as a team, minimal antics and Jurgen Klinsmann has to be the most fantastic manager there is. Purely for his celebrations when they scored I loved him. Shame they just hadn't the quality.
Team of the tournament for me (4-4-2). Obviously people who played for half an hour shouldn't be there, Lionel Messi.
Buffon, Miguel, Terry, Cannavaro, Lahm, Maxi, Zidane, Gattuso, Pirlo, Klose, Podolski
I actually thought it was a pretty boring game. I don't see how France wasn't even able to make 1 goal (other than the penalty)! IMO, Italy vs. Germany was way better even when neither sides were able to make a goal! The wait was well worth it. I think Italy deserves to win the World Cup this year, they've been playing really well.
p.s. Happy B-day Alberto Gilardino! It's pretty cool how his b-day is on the same day as Italy's victory over Brazil in the 1982 World Cup. Go Italy!
Not really a great match. Barthez is some strange goalkeeper. Well, he is the clown of France, that's well-known. Portugal played better, but not great.
It was not really a penalty, but that shows Henry's experience as a good football player. The same with Figo, when he was 'hit' in his head by Boularousz. Nice penalty by Zidane. This one was unstoppable, because he shot in the very left corner of the goal, I believe he even hit the post a bit.
I hope France will win this tournament and I hope they will play better against Italy. But France has some strong defence. And I love Ribery his playing.
"Shit, shit, shit. Portugal deserved to win, but lost"
They did not deserve to win at all. They dropped like the flies in the French box, really laughable. They should get an oscar for acting. Last night the Portuguese team lost all the rest of respect some people might still have had. The French defensive stood like a wall but to beat Italy they need to improve a lot.
I really hope Italy kick the Frenchs asses so badly!!! Forca Italy!!!!!!!!! xD
deleted user 06.07.2006 04:29
YourValentine wrote: "Shit, shit, shit. Portugal deserved to win, but lost"
They did not deserve to win at all. They dropped like the flies in the French box, really laughable. They should get an oscar for acting. Last night the Portuguese team lost all the rest of respect some people might still have had. The French defensive stood like a wall but to beat Italy they need to improve a lot.
I agree. Too much acting for my taste. They started out good, though, with creativity in their attacks and with Ronaldo, Figo, Deco finding ways round the french defense. But after a while they started looking for penalties instead of trying to score.
France will rise to the challenge against Italy. I think Zidane looks like a winner.
Yes exactly. If they had tried to score each time they fell in the box, they would have had a lot of chances.
France started very badly into the tournament but kept improving, so there is hope that we see an interesting final.
I think France played better. They deserved to win.
Anyway it was great for us Portuguese to reach the half finals in the World Cup. We're sad, but we're proud of our boys. Next cup WE WILL WIN!
GO ITALY!!!
Ok, I didn't watch the game, so I don't really know whether it was good or what...
But, I wanted Portugal to win.
I have nothing against France, and that's what's that all about.
Now Italy VS France... I hope Italy wins, but if France wins I'll be happy too.
I can't stand Portugal, they have a good team but they play too dirty, I don't stand that kind of things in sports.
So if Portugal goes to the final, it would be great for me, cause I would get excited about the final score... Too bad it won't happen.
Anyway, GO ITALY
and go France too, I don't have anything against them.
I agree, especially given Pauleta's performance (or more accurately, non-performance).
However I refuse to accept England fans (generally, not eggy specifically) whining about Portugal diving when at club level the same people were quite happy to see Porto dive, cheat & time-waste their way past Man Utd in the Champions League a couple of years back.
Paul McCartney Junior wrote: First thing France has won since the American revolution
great
...and what did the U.S. win?
A tie with the Italians, which wouldn't have been possible without the help an Italian player who scored in his own goal.
So Kudos to Italy for helping the U.S. take one point back home.
Back to France... they already won a World Cup in 1998.