Well a fitting Final to that tournament. Really dull match that just seemed to drag on. Interesting how many people watched this match considering as evidence by their posts they didn't even watch the WC Final if any of that tournament at all.
France has to be frustrated with their performance, though I felt they were also somewhat unlucky as well. Still think Griezmann needs to finish one of those headers (probably should have done better on that second one). Also not sure what Deschamps was doing with Pogba. At times he was anchoring the midfield. And Matuidi didn't have a good match. I guess if you've going to have Pogba that deep that often then just start Kante over Matuidi as he can do the job himself.
Really odd viewing this all as I felt it was like a bizarro Euro 2004 or something with Portugal effectively pulling a Greece. What really struck me though was that it all seemed rather unnecessary. Watching Eder I just got the feeling that he should have been starting the way he held up the ball and then he could have played on both Nani and Ronaldo from the wings. It's not like France weren't getting some decent chances in this one for example. I fear that people who aren't too familiar with Portugal will miss out on the fact that they have some real talent and technically gifted players in that squad. Anyway, just one of those tournament wins that were it a team I support it would have been a let down in how it all played out despite the win. However in my experience most people only care about the trophies.
Pepe had a good match apart from Gignac faking him out of his shorts on that play where he hit the post. That said Pepe had a good tournament for the most part and he doesn't get enough credit on this forum generally. On the flip side he's been overrated some too recently. If you go back some years ago though he was pretty much the best CB in the game for a season or two and he's been one of Madrid's best buys over the last how many years.
Some disgraceful stuff from Moutinho including the worst embellishing in the entire tournament. Had that been any number of other players, including Ronaldo, it would have been a **** storm. At least Moutinho found something he's good at considering how overrated he is.
Really laughable stuff from Ronaldo. The crying went overboard in the latter stages, but the touchline stuff was also ridiculous. Hilarious reading people's comments on him being some sort of manager with all that. Anyway, I watched maybe a couple of minutes of the post match and while his teammates are celebrating initially he's on his own. The best bit though was him taking off his shirt for absolutely no reason whatsoever. So you've been out injured for over an hour and you take your shirt off. Amazing how he goes for all the limelight considering the tournament he had. Hard to blame him though as it must be genetic.
First his mother goes on social media and says that Payet tried to injure Ronaldo, which is ridiculous. I wonder if she went on social media the five or so times Ronaldo has punched an opponent (and of course not even been called for it). Anyway, as if that could be topped, his sister went about a million steps further.
She actually went on social media and said "just as our saviour Jesus Christ suffered on the cross for a better world for us, Cristiano cried in the pain of not being able to help his teammates and his beloved people." Now the only question I have is which poster here is his sister? Too hard to tell.
Ronaldo is the man of the match for me. Inspiring stuff from a true leader of his country's side and his club's side. A true inspiration to football and we are all lucky to have seen this man play in his prime years.
Nevermind. I think I found her.