Euro2004 Competition!!!

[unrealistic]

One last thing.. You have to give credit to Ashley Cole tonight, he worked his socks off and stopped Ronaldo from making much of an impact. He was fantastic going forward and defending. gg Ashley.

[unrealistic]

I think part of the problem is the English are still stuck in 1966

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Ashley Cole kicked out Zambrotta (who I thought was the only italian player that actually tried, and played really good) from my euro2004 dreamteam

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I think part of the problem is the English are still stuck in 1966

thats my argument!

[Pyros]

One last thing.. You have to give credit to Ashley Cole tonight, he worked his socks off and stopped Ronaldo from making much of an impact. He was fantastic going forward and defending. gg Ashley.

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[Dabram]

I'm always cheering for the team that plays the most attractive football and show they want to win the game. Portugal was absolutely showing this.

England plays their normal style, relying on their defense and hoping they can score a goal out of a set play. Luckily for England, Costinha fucked up (lacked concentration) in the beginning of the game and a longball from James suddenly falls for Owen, who then does something magnificent.
Then it's 90 minutes of pressure from Portugal. England's defense was playing a great game, especially Cole who took Cristiano Ronaldo out of the game.
Of course being strong in defense is a nice thing, but if you show no signs of trying to get a goal at the other end you won't get my cheers. And Ricardo Carvalho was just as amazing as the English defenders, and probably better because he does think creative. Then luckily for all football-lovers Scolari shows he has balls and subs out the washed up veteran Figo who was playing another shitty game (apart from 1 nice shot and 1 nice dribble+cross).
Then finally Portugal manages to break through the English wall and get their deserved goal. And even better for me was that it was Postiga who scored the equalizer. (points at Mike and laughs.)
Then suddenly England get a freekick. This is probably their only chance of scoring, since they showed they had absolutely no clue how to create a 'normal' chance. And of course then they almost score. I have to admit I'm not sure if that goal should've been disallowed or not. The rules tell that the goalie has some protection in his own box. And he clearly had no chance of jumping up to try and punch that ball clear because Terry was trying to keep him of his balance, you simply can't hinder the keeper in that box like that. Funny thing is that he probably wouldn't have been able to punch it away, so Campbell and all other Englishmen should thank Terry instead of Meier for losing.

Then extra time begins, and Portugal with 7 attacking-minded players in the field keep creating the play. Which results in an absolutly amazing goal from Rui Costa, after a nice played break-away. Then of course something happens that you will always see happen to these pure defensive teams. They get a corner and manage to score from it.

So we go to penalties, and either team has the chance to win now. Beckham shows his current form. (although the ball did move for like 3 cm before he hit it, haha). Then after a wonderful miss from Rui Costa, Vassell steps up to take a penalty, Ricardo makes a good safe on a terrible penalty from the terrible player that Vassell is, and then Ricardo does something sensational by taking the penalty himself and shooting it in 100% perfect.

This was an absolute thriller of a game, and fits in perfectly in this very nice EC. The moment that will make my top 10 moments in this EC is the penaltytake from Postiga and then especially the reaction on the face from Deco. Deco is still my hero although he played a terrible second half (a bit thanks to Figo) he showed great versatility as right back and his first half display was pretty nice.)

BYE BYE England. The attractive playing teams are doing really well this EC, which is good for football in general.

[Schnares]

It is not allowed to hinder the goalie in his 5 metres box in any way. The goal didn't count, it was clearly a correct decision. You had a great match and everyone will remember England as a great participant in the Euro 2004. Been fun, goodbye.

[TajaUk]

Hinder the goal keeper? Listen we got beat fair and square, we were 2nd best but pls dont talk bullshit, the keeper was to the players side when they jumped.

No way was that a foul, Cambell jumped on Terry and the keeper tried to jump from the side into them. If anyone believes this was a foul they need to look again, every pundit, report, etc says the same thing.

This is not sour grapes, we deserved to lose, but pls, dont talk dog shite.

[Kim]

Go Orange Shirts

[Luckily Yours]

haha all english are sad losers and fuckers. and u show a fucking ugly display of uor nationality in portugal by trashing everything up, apart from that, terry did foul the goalkeeper ricardo so its obviously a foul. basically portugal massacred u fuckers all game and u were lucky enough to go to penalties.

the referee biased? let me laugh, get some new excuse for losing, like uor team being a piece of shit and only Rooney is worth of mention.

all in all u are all sad fuckers and i wished u were gone from portugal long before this match, u trash everything and get fights in every corner, u deserve to be gone.

now only the good teams and fair play supporters are here, lets get this shit started, have fun watching it all on television. hahahahahhahahahahaha, and no matter how many arguements u can come up with i will still win cause my team is still here. WOOOOOO. ALLEZZ! WE FUCKED ENGLAND UP AGAIN! ALLEZZ! WE FUCKED ENGLAND UP AGAIN! hahahahahahah

Czech-denmark in my town, now those are fun supporters to be around, we will have a fucking blast!!!!!!

HOW DOES IT FEEL LIKE! TO BE BEATEN BY A GOALKEEPER WITH NO GLOVES ON! haha PIECES OF CRAP. GO WHINE TO UOR FAT MOTHERS WITH THEIR BELLY BUTTONS BETWEEN THEIR TITS. And never try to trash Portugal, even we will always come for u.

Everyone else can trash us, besides england or spain i really dont mind losing to any1, it will be a big party anyway.

[Kim]

Whoa I didn't know people are still drinking hard liquor AFTER the game p01

[Stayon]

Well i wanna say AHAHAHAHAH EZ WIN PORTUGAL WINS WINS WINS WINS we are so the best.

Don't try to make excuses, cuz first they robbed us not u, second that was a clear fault and plz u do know it was a fault and dont use this as if it was an excuse for losing, even if u scored u would lose cuz u didnt deserved it.

Portugal massacred u all game, but i mean all game england had a lucky goal and only played decent to 20m then its all Portugal.And consider u very lucky to go to penalties, u didnt even deserved that. England did a bad game and i actually from what i saw thought england was better than this but after this i realized they all suck i mean england cant even attack, they just just cross and gainr rebounds. Only Mcrooney was the real good player, tho this is a style of playing i dont like it, in fact i hate defensive teams.

So in a clear deserved win to Portugal, gg U ARE GOING HOME LALALA.

[unrealistic]

Portugal fans are very mature...

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I think it goes both ways unrealistic

[Dragonscale]

Portugal wins the whole tournament. E to the z