You made an important point mansion. The German squad does not have star players like Ronaldo and LEAO. However, German teamwork is awesome. This is better than Bonding Portugal between German players. Portugal's squad is very powerful. They have lots of experienced and star players. But in the past days I have seen Portugal performance. Both the match strategy and the bonding between the players are weak Portugal.
It turned out that my prediction about the German national team was wrong, there were too many changes in the squad, and some players had retired from the national team so that the good teamwork that we used to see was no longer visible in that match. And in the end they had to accept defeat from the Portuguese national team.
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Age is just a number. Robert Martinez should not use Cristiano Ronaldo's age as an excuse for not starting Cristiano Ronaldo in the first half because Cristiano Ronaldo is a player who has influence on the field, and he can score a goal from any angle, so his opponent will mark him closely so that he won't have the chance to score goals. While all eyes are on Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal players can use that advantage to score goals for Portugal.
This is an extraordinary thing shown by the mega star from Portugal, because even though he is quite old, he is not only able to score goals, but he is also still strong enough to be able to play 90 minutes on the field. In that match he was pulled in the 90th minute just to buy time.
This is a very valuable victory achieved by CR7 and his friends, a 2-1 victory over Germany was not only able to bring the Portuguese national team to the final, but this victory also ended Portugal's long wait which had not been able to win over Germany for a long time.