when it comes to soccer, sometimes we have things called miracles and that's exactly what happened on the portugal vs us match
just when i thought it was all over for portugal, they come up with a sudden strength.
it was not ronaldo's night but at least his teammates contributed the final shot - an equalizer to tie and end the game with a draw
We need some serious changes to our team. Our coach's run should be coming to an end, he's been there for 4 years and did good, but now our team is getting older, we need someone who realizes it's not about the famous names, it's about the performance during the season. We need to find a formation that works without an actual striker, because our strikers are just awful. Hell, at this point Ronaldo as center striker would work better, we have SO many pacey, skilled wingers that could replace Ronaldo in that position. Or, if not a new formation, call on younger strikers that can prove themselves. We have a very young striker who plays in Benfica and was on loan at Rennes who scored quite a few goals this season, and he wasn't even called. We need to renew our midfield too. Moutinho is still quality, but Meireles and Veloso are lacking now. I would say keep Meireles and Moutinho, but put on William Carvalho. And our defence, it's all holes. Bruno Alves is a good center back, and Ricardo Costa played surprisingly well yesterday, but our left and right back weren't the best. Well, more our left back, since the USA only attacked through our left because they knew it was weaker without Coentrao who's injured and Ronaldo who was probably told not to run back due to his knee. Keepers are doing good. Beto was great, and finally some competition to Rui Patricio. And also, it's bad by Benfica and Porto who every season ignore the Portuguese players from their youth and go buy young players from Argentina and Brazil who most times just go on loan. This season was better with a few youth players joining the main team, but they didn't play enough and most likely will be loaned (surprise!). It's obviously an end to the Portuguese golden generation, Figo is gone, Nuno Gomes is gone, Rui Costa is gone, Simao is gone. Ronaldo is already 29, he'll probably have 1 more world cup. Our centerbacks are old, our strikers except for Eder are old, our midfield is getting old. We need to start betting on younger players again while keeping some of the older ones. Like I said, William Carvalho, Nelson Oliveira, and a few others, all players who showed quality but are just ignored. We need a better connection between our Defense-Midfield-Offense. And also, I don't know what the hell happened yesterday after we scored, we just let the USA do whatever they wanted with the game, and only after they scored we woke up! C'mon, they knew we needed more than 1 goal, they cant just settle for 1 goal! Where is the motivation?! And last point, there has to be something wrong because Coentrao, Andre Almeida, Hugo Almeida, Helder Postiga and Rui Patricio have gone off injured, and Bruno Alves didn't train for the past few days. Ronaldo also has an injury. Something has to be wrong.
