Why is it that almost every Euro/World cup Portugal chokes even though they have a great team...

Why is it that almost every Euro/World cup Portugal chokes even though they have a great team? Can't even cheer for them anymore

>Great team
That's debatable.

t. doesn't know we're going and win it this year

they haven't got a great team though, their team has been shit since the end of the Figo era

The trauma of 2004 is still fresh in our minds.

At least we don't have a small mentality like Iceland

Because we never have a great team, foreigners just seem to always think we do. We have 4/5 good players and they're all midfielders, that's it.

The only time we actually had a great team was in 2006. Not even in 2004, where we only made the finals because we were playing at home and had a manager that really knew how to motivate the team and did the best of it.

Portugal has never had a complete team. They always lack something crucial.

They don't play as a team, they are always looking for Ronaldo. That's why they'll never progress far into a championship.

At least you're not england desu

>drawing with a country of 300,000 people is better than drawing with one of 140m people
>american logic

>by proxy drawing with a country of 140m people would be better than drawing with one of 1000+m
>britbong logic

*wouldn't

Portuguese secretly enjoy losing. They love saudade.

The obsession is real.

That's the opposite case of England. In England no one thinks they have a good team except them. Every time they fail to win they can't understand why :^)

Do you actually believe having a population of 300,000 people means you will have as good a football team as a country of 140m where football is the main sport in both?

Because Portuguese people are cucks

>In England no one thinks they have a good team except them

That doesn't make any sense lad, maybe you should rephrase it so it forms a coherent sentence.

Are you retarded ?

2004 lost against best team in final
2006 lost semis game against Frane
2008 lost quarters game against Germany (finalist)
2010 lost against Spain in ro16 because of BLATANT refball
2012 lost to Spain in semis (Portugal was objectively better team but Spain won in penalties)
2014 Choke


That is 1 out of 6 tournaments that they did not perform well in.
One.

You fucking moron.

In my opinion they show a small mentality and they are not going to do anything in big competitions

>7-1
>Check last two numbers
TOP KEK you can't escape it

we do have a great team. BUT IT WAS ON THE FUCKING BENCH YESTERDAY.

Our retarded coach chose to field
>Vieirinha
>Danilo
>Dead out of form Moutinho
>RicardoCarvalho whos 1,82 against a team of giants.

While he left LITERALLY our best players in the bench
>William Carvalho
>Adrien Silva
>Rafa Silva
>Quaresma
>Cédric
>Jose Fonte (whos much taller and just as good as Ricardo)

The problem with our national team is that Jorge Mendes runs it and only puts the players he wants on the field instead of our actual good players, its 2014 all over again im sick of it.

A brazilian post ends in 71 everyday.

this
I don't even know why we played those friendlies.
Against Belgium Adrien and William made a rock solid midfield.
Also Vieirinha isn't even comparable to cedric.
Only cedric knows how to link up with joao mario
Also our super-subs were a 18yo whos clueless on what to do on the field.
and ederzito lmao

great team in 2000 too

They have great players but they are not a team.

How do we kick Jorge Mendes of the Team,rapazes ?

We need to kick jorge mendes and all the pro- benfica and anti-sporting propaganda surrounding the NT

wait a secund r u trying to revive sporting ?

Because GOAT penaldo has no football skills to lead a team. It´s not the same thing to play as a striker in real madrid against espanyol, malmoe or wolfsburg, that create chances, make good passes, dribbling, and score against some of the best players of europe with nigger portugal national team. Besides, he is not in his prime and never will be again. He even couldnt make a fucking single play against ICELAND.

Gee I wonder what club your cheer for

>portugal was objectively better team than spain in 2012

hahahahahah. Goat iniesta literally raped portugal in overtime and only the goalkeeper´s lucky saved the gypsies.

It has nothing to do with club. Did u like yesterdays game? danilo is a fucking pole who can't pass a ball further than 2 meters, Vieirinha is absolute shit both defending and attacking and, João Mario was shit because he had no suport from vieirinha making him useless and joao moutinho lack creativity and the ability to take the team closer to the opositions area which is exactly what adrien who had a fantastic does. Stop thinking about Clubs. its our national team.

>le one man team
>great

Yeah and how curious that all the players who will fix it are Sporting products

João Mario was shit because he's overrated as fuck, not because of Vieirinha

I would switch Danilo for William because the latter is more creative and I would also start Cedric. Adrien Silva is not going to start and does not deserve to start.

>Fc Ronaldo
>Great team

Because it's a region of losers with mediocre mentality

You are a deluted benficuck.
no point argueeing with u...
João Mario isn't overrated he just needs allot of support because hes not a winger and lacks speed and flair to play there so he needs to be conpensated by the rigthback, like he does in sporting.

Adrien is our best midfielder by FAR. much much better than joao mario or william or any other imo. You clearly havent seen him play this season or in the match against belgium which is the only one our fuckng coach played him in the center midfield

If the "sporting products" are better than the ones who were playing then yes. they most likely will.
>inb4 "stfu sporting fan"
im a VitoriaSC fan.

Greece best team in 2004 ? Ok muhammad

have you seen our coach he is a manlet too
they will never learn

The answer is obvious. It's the TSUUUUUU show. He is used to playing with people who are, in his mind, just a step below him. He thinks the people on this team are too shit to be trusted to do anything. And while there's some truth to that, you have to believe in your team.

It's too easy to fuck with him mentally, obviously, given what fucking Iceland of all teams did. And after that, they aren't all that great.

If you let me pick a team with more cohesion that didn't include Ronaldo, I couldn't promise you the Euros, but I could promise you better results.

>2012 lost to Spain in semis (Portugal was objectively better team but Spain won in penalties)
This has to be bait, but in case you're serious I have to meme on you

Pretty much this desu. As long as Ronaldo is playing, he will be treated as a king and is unbenchable even tho he is shit nowadays

Porque a raça lusitana é inferior.

>Adrien is our best midfielder by FAR
fucking lel

This. This a 1000 times.

This team isn't built to win. It's built to promote players X, Y & Z. Back when we had the 7-1 HUE as coach there was at least 1 person interested in winning. Now there's nobody.

> muh meme war

>Adrien is our best midfielder by FAR

And you have the gall to call me deluded

>this flag
>this topic
atleast get an italian or french flag proxy so we take your opinions into consideration

Here's your >(You)

>Adrien
Great leader(hes the captain in his club) + great tactical discipline + fast and strong frame + great passing ability + good shooter 9/10 player.

>André Gomes
average at passing + has good creativity (not enough to play on the wing) isn't very good holding the ball + is tall + shit shooter. 7.5/10 player (with room for improvement)

> João Mario
One of the best in the world at holding and keeping posetion of the ball + great at passing + absolutely atrouciouse shooter + lack creativity to play on the wing unless he has proper support from the right back 8.5/10 player(with room for improvement)

>Danilo
Good defender + good at holdng the ball and keeping posetion + shit on passing + isn't fast+ lacks allota creativity + is tall + good header 7/10 player

>Renato Sanches
Very very strong built + has good accelaration + absolutly shit on passes + average creativity + lacks experience 6/10 player(with room for improvement)

>William Carvalho
Tall + Strong + Great at keeping posetion + Average at defending + shit with headers + Fenomenal passing abilitys + great creativity + Shit shooter + superb game vision 8.5/10 player

João Moutinho
Great game vision + small frame + weak + shit at holding the ball + average speed + great passing ability + good leader 8.5/10 player

>they have a great team

Those digits never lie

But he is.
Who the fuck is better than him at a pure MC position? Let alone one that can actually control team mates position and move the ball forward, forward pressing, help with defense etc etc etc while being tactically disciplined?

Did you guys even seen him play this season?

I'm a Porto fan btw.

Daily reminder that >we haven't won the first game since 2008, and this year it's literally impossible for a team not to pass the group.
It's still coming home lads.

My line-up

------------------------------- PATRICIO
CEDRIC ----- PEPE ---- CARVALHO ---- RAPHAEL
------------------ DANILO ------------ RENATO
JOAO MARIO -------------------------------------- RAFA
--------------------- NANI ----------------- TSUUU

This is the correct anwser.
He won't play in the next Euro so it's all cool.
I think we have a pretty balanced team for the future, nothing GOAT but it's balanced at least in the midfield.

André Gomes, Renato Sanches, William, Danilo, João Mário and many many others that play in the midfield.

>71

they don't have a good team and they rely too much on Maricanaldo

stop crying you fags

portugal played well, ronaldo had a few chances and a perfect cross for nani but he missed

there are 2 more games stop crying kys smdhsmdgs

>played well
Yeah right. That defense is JUST tier. If we had played against a more offensive minded team we would have lost

>Draw against a country that has 76 professional players

>Ronaldo had a few chances

yes, in one of them he was alone with the gk and literally missed the ball. he kicked the air.

>Nani missed

true, though he wasn't playing at his natural position he had some back luck in that case


t. Dunga

MARICON

ANAL

ALDO

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>tfw draw with a team of part timers playing at home

It can't get more disappointing than this can it?

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