So far Portugal has only played against very weak teams but they performed very poorly, if they win this Euro it will be thanks to luck
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and put Ronaldo in the starting lineup. In my opinion Ronaldo should retire from the national team, but Portugal wants to create a hero
I agree with everything you wrote, it really doesn't make sense to keep these players on the bench, Portugal has luck on its side, but that luck won't last forever, Cristiano Ronaldo's crying is almost the player's last act in major tournaments. Despite being a legendary player, the weight of age is starting to show, he could be a second-half player, or change position... it will be very difficult for Portugal to survive any longer in this competition.
Portuguese news channels are very critical of the Portuguese coach's choice of always putting Ronaldo on and not being able to replace him, and there are some times when Ronaldo, when he is replaced, he leaves complaining, which clearly shows disrespect for the coach, but while there is a part of the Portuguese press that has criticized some of the coach's decisions, there is also another part of the press that has praised Ronaldo, because the Portuguese are proud of Ronaldo and look at him as a hero and want him to achieve more records, unfortunately the fact that ronaldo is playing in a lower league is making him perform very poorly. If Ronaldo was playing for a big European team, I believe he would be in very good physical shape
Before the quarterfinals began, here are the odds on the title holder:
England - 4.75
Spain - 5.00
France - 5.50
Germany - 5.50
Netherlands - 8.00
Portugal - 10.00
Switzerland - 15.00
Turkey - 34.00
I can't understand why they are placing England as favorites knowing that England is a team with bad performance and that seems to have managed to reach this stage thanks to luck, Is a team that can hardly score more than 1 goal, and see that England only played against weak teams in that euro and even so it was bad performance, while Switzerland managed to draw with Germany that is much better than England, then Switzerland managed to easily beat Italy which is the same as England, in my opinion Switzerland will come out with victory in the game against england if they play as well as they did against germany and italy
Yes, perhaps almost everyone is surprised by this assessment because England has not been able to show any impressive performance so far. But if you look at all the players that Southgate brought to Germany, it might be a different assessment, it's just that they don't have a combination on the field so they don't produce good teamwork. The Three Lions squad may be very complete and they are in their golden age. I saw something different when England was able to fight back against Slovenia and the team seemed to have a strong mentality to go back to the final and maybe become champions.