Belgium vs Portugal - Sunday 27th June, 8pm

[Gazi Giray]

wooooooooooooooo Belgium .......

[trabuch]

Class

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Woohoo go on Belgium

[Trav Le Bleu]

Smurftastic!

[foxes_rule1978]

Great strike that 

[tom27111]

Keeper has to be doing better there. 

 

Good strike, curling away, but it wasn't exactly in the corner.

[StanSP]

Hopefully this brings Portugal out of their shell and leave a few more opportunities for Belgium to break.

[spacemunky]

What a hit!

[PhillippaT]

Portugal needed a Hazard warning for half-time   

[Gazi Giray]

Belgium has incredible potential .. 

[HybridFox]

Eden can only dream of a goal like that at the moment 

[StanSP]

De Bruyne's fall there and knees getting stuck in the ground remind me of Mahrez' failed celebration at Man City in Feb 2016  

[Finnegan]

Game definitely needed Belgium to score first. 

 

Doubt Portugal will change up much until later in the second half mind. 

[StriderHiryu]

On second look, I think Rui Patricio could have done better for the goal. Took the wrong step initially, but even then, I think a world class goalkeeper would have got a hand on it.

[RowlattsFox]

Ouch De Bruyne. That sort of contact seems to happen to him a lot.

 

Does anyone else find Lukaku's constant pointing after every attack really annoying?  Winds me up 

 

 

[PhillippaT]

Just now, StriderHiryu said:

On second look, I think Rui Patricio could have done better for the goal. Took the wrong step initially, but even then, I think a world class goalkeeper would have got a hand on it.

Like Kasper?  

[don_danbury]

how's tielemans doing? missed that half

[foxes_rule1978]

4 minutes ago, Gazi Giray said:

Belgium has incredible potential .. 

aren’t all their best players like 27 upwards… they should be winning tournaments now, if they don’t it will be a while they have players like these again 

Edited 27 June 2021 by foxes_rule1978

[Gazi Giray]

Under Palhinha

[Jaspa]

Dodgy keeper. Wish we'd have signed Thorgan. Hopefully brings the game to life but probably goes the way the other KO's have so far and Belgium squish them into the ground.

Edited 27 June 2021 by Jaspa

[egg_fried_rice]

Sam Matterface is the absolute pits. Worst of the worst.

[StanSP]

Just now, don_danbury said:

how's tielemans doing? missed that half

Decent. Portugal haven't really been able to get close to him. Portugal's midfield isn't on the same level as Belgium's. To be fair though, it's been a poor game overall, quite slow in tempo. 

[tom27111]

3 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

On second look, I think Rui Patricio could have done better for the goal. Took the wrong step initially, but even then, I think a world class goalkeeper would have got a hand on it.

 

Not even world class, just a decent keeper. He was stood on his near post and it's flown past him in almost the middle of the goal.

 

No excuse for that.

 

A world class keeper would have caught it.

[StriderHiryu]

4 minutes ago, PhillippaT said:

Like Kasper?  

Kasper would have caught it, and then booted it out for a throw in when trying to pass to Tielemans.

 

And I would have shouted SCHMEICHEL! SCHMEICHEL! SCHMEICHEL! Regardless

[Gazi Giray]

Belgium can go to final..

1 minute ago, tom27111 said:

 

Not even world class, just a decent keeper. He was stood on his near post and it's flown past him in almost the middle of the goal.

 

No excuse for that.

 

A world class keeper would have caught it.

He jumped too late. Sleeping