Euro: R16: Croatia vs. Portugal, 6/25/2016

[Luigi Habs]

Cruel for Croatia

Strinic should never wear the team jersey again

 

[Evilo]

BTW, nice save by Subasic on Ronaldo's shot....


Unbelievable Vida here...

 

[Cin]

Vida has ****ed Croatia out of three goals.

 

[cgf]

Pjaca is electric.

Bummed he's going to FC VW, but happy to get to watch him in the BuLi. He's already more creative than Schurrle has been since he stopped playing for Mainz.

I'm curious. What's your beef with Leverkusen?

-Extremely vulturistic youth policies; they tap up a lot of kids before they sign their first professional contracts with the clubs who's academies produced them.
-Corporate club
-Crap fanbase/live-atmosphere
-Dissappointingly unambitious style of play given all of that talent they've hoarded through the years; which has lead to some of that exciting young talent stagnating as counter-players instead of learning to create with the ball.
-A tradition of rolling over when facing big-name clubs in europe...though they've improved on this under Schmidt; somewhat.
-And as Gladbach has become my favorite first league club over the past 5 years, Leverkusen have been a constant irritant; pushing them out of a CL spot in one season, which cost them the opportunity to buy Lacazette before his big breakout season, swooping in with their bigger funds to snipe targets of theirs (Mehmedi last year, Volland this one).

I don't really hate them. I hate Berliner FC Dynamo; but Leverkusen are easily the most unlikeable club in the top flight for me.

 

[Shrimper]

Portugal didn't deserve it at all

 

[booyakasha]

both teams suck.

shame one of them are through.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

damn it

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Poland better learns from this game

 

[Ivan13]

Nice job cacic.

 

[Just Win]

Anti-football wins. Once again. Le sigh.

 

[Deficient Mode]

I post in Liga games just as much as on EPL games.

Roma playing creative football... Low standards I guess.

They scored 3 or more goals in 11 out of 17 domestic matches after they lost to Juventus on January 24. Not a low standard at all.

 

[Ivan13]

both teams suck.

shame one of them are through.

So clueless, and beyond pathetic.

 

[booyakasha]

Modric is a bottler.

kid aint got the jam....so depressing.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Poland better learns from this game

I trully hope Poland beats Portugal.

 

[Live in the Now]

Portugal/Poland will be a much better game than this given that neither team will think they should have to bunker down. Croatia/Poland would've been awful.

You don't put a shot on target all game and it's always possible that's going to happen.

 

[booyakasha]

So clueless, and beyond pathetic.

sure thing Ivan...

 

[Shrimper]

I hope teams won't see it as justification to sit back

 

[Eisen]

Bummed he's going to FC VW, but happy to get to watch him in the BuLi. He's already more creative than Schurrle has been since he stopped playing for Mainz.



-Extremely vulturistic youth policies; they tap up a lot of kids before they sign their first professional contracts with the clubs who's academies produced them.
-Corporate club
-Crap fanbase/live-atmosphere
-Dissappointingly unambitious style of play given all of that talent they've hoarded through the years; which has lead to some of that exciting young talent stagnating as counter-players instead of learning to create with the ball.
-A tradition of rolling over when facing big-name clubs in europe...though they've improved on this under Schmidt; somewhat.
-And as Gladbach has become my favorite first league club over the past 5 years, Leverkusen have been a constant irritant; pushing them out of a CL spot in one season, which cost them the opportunity to buy Lacazette before his big breakout season, swooping in with their bigger funds to snipe targets of theirs (Mehmedi last year, Volland this one).

I don't really hate them. I hate Berliner FC Dynamo; but Leverkusen are easily the most unlikeable club in the top flight for me.

I can't really contradict a lot of that. They will always be Vizekusen to me.

 

[Halladay]

I was bored by that game.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

This is demonstrably false. I will pull up his pass map for you once the match is over.

He has been horrible today, playing very very conservative. Dont blame him as he probably was following coach orders and likely semi—injured.

 

[Hesher]

Quaresma of all people...

Croatia gave too much respect to this crap Portuguese team.

 

[Cassano]

Modric is a bottler.

kid aint got the jam....so depressing.

His teammates were garbage.

 

[cgf]

Croatian's poor attacking structure is just as much to blame as the ref or shoddy defending in the end. A team with so many skilled & clever midfielders can not be held shotless by any team. They only really threatened when they caught portugal out of shape, and you can not let that happen when you have Perisic and Pjaca coming off the wings, and the likes of Modric, Rakitic, Kovacec, Coric, and Brozovic to flow through.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Quaresma of all people...

Croatia gave too much respect to this crap Portuguese team.

Croatia gambled at the end and it cost them. That's not what I wanted to see....

 

[Evilo]

They scored 3 or more goals in 11 out of 17 domestic matches after they lost to Juventus on January 24. Not a low standard at all.

Low standards yes.
6 months of goals and you're saying it's a testimony of creative football? 46 goals in 19 games is suddenly is proof of the existence of creative football?
Seriously?