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Fowler_E7 wrote:The keeper should of saved schweinsteiger's first effort. Terrible goal to concede.
Portugal have a great midfield and play good football but really do lack quality upfront, there choice of strikers is abysmal. It shows how poor England were that they couldnt beat them.

LFC #1 wrote:

Fowler_E7 wrote:The keeper should of saved schweinsteiger's first effort. Terrible goal to concede.
Portugal have a great midfield and play good football but really do lack quality upfront, there choice of strikers is abysmal. It shows how poor England were that they couldnt beat them.

As much as I love Pauleta, I agree.

Portugal were excellently defensive;y for most of the tournament (even without Andrade, Meira did excellently), and the 5-man midfield is as good as anything in the world on it's day. Portugal can play some very attractive football, but have trouble breaking the top sides down and rely heavily on goals from midfield. They scored goals for fun against lesser sides in qualifying, but lack a world class striker to win the big games.

If Portugal had a Van Nistlerooy, Toni or Shevchenko I think they may well have won the World Cup.