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2022 World Cup.

noted. Querying how that can be? Regardless of all the off pitch stuff, how can they not start him?

Showing him who’s boss, do you reckon?
Who knows. The manager thought he was good enough to start, supposedly, in games up to now. Or, maybe he wanted an excuse to drop him? His reaction after being benched last game may have given him that excuse.
 
Imagine the Portuguese 1-0 down with 15 minutes to go and the coach brings him on and he’s scores the equaliser.
They then go onto win
Who looks stupid then.
Or they are winning and he brings him on just to waste time? Piers will be beside himself.
 
Portugal just scored. Camera goes to Ronaldo, he looks fed up.

That sums up Ronaldo in one minute

The bloke cares for one person. Ronaldo. (Not even the real Ronaldo)

That's why for me Messi will always be better as he plays for the team

Hell even neymar does

His face when bale scored in champ league final and not him

Priceless and classless
 
That sums up Ronaldo in one minute

The bloke cares for one person. Ronaldo. (Not even the real Ronaldo)

That's why for me Messi will always be better as he plays for the team

Hell even neymar does

His face when bale scored in champ league final and not him

Priceless and classless
Apparently Messi didn't even know it was his 1000th game the other day....
 
The lad replacing Ronaldo has just justified the coach’s decision.
Keeper should not get beat there.
Are you hinting the famous cliche "keeper should not get beat at near post"? So, anytime in history they get beat at near post, it is automatically the keepers fault? :)

The keeper is relatively small anyway, for a keeper. But, in fairness the shot was absolutely rifled into top corner from close range. I suspect keeper was in a better position to cover the most likely shot, and covering more angles generally. Not that I am a goalkeeping coach, but his positioning didn't seem overly awful.
 
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