[@ManUtd] We’re heartbroken for you, lads. Commiserations to our Portuguese duo.

by JaysonDeflatum

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  1. I’m so glad they are out. If they kept going playing 120 minutes games, they’d be coming back exhausted. Get them rested and back for as much as pre-season as possible. Same with the rest of the boys.

  2. Portugal wasting a generation because of bad coaches.  First Santos (despite winning 2016 euro) and now Martinez. 

  3. I was hoping Portugal was going through. But when Bruno gets subbed off, i didn’t mind them going out. So stupid to sub him out. Also aswell Semedo instead of Dalot for Cancelo is really weird.

  4. stormsurfer21 on

    Extremely frustrating as a Belgian seeing Martinez repeating past mistakes. When Bruno got subbed, I immediately knew they’d be in trouble. Game had penalties written all over it. You just don’t take off your best penalty taker like that.

  5. France in the Semi-Final with 0 open play goals, no one is more impressed than Southgate.

  6. I feel bad for Bruno, Pepe, all the younger players.. pretty much everyone except Ronaldo. The lack of self-awareness is shocking. How do you not see yourself decline over 2 or 3 years, watch yourself miss chance after chance, watch yourself fail to contribute most games, and not tell the manager that you’d accept a role on the bench.

  7. Should be back in training Monday the 29th, gives them 2 friendlies and the community shield before the league starts to get match fit. Enjoy the rest!

  8. what happened to the young striker for Portugal? i get who he is and this was his last tournament but Ronaldo didn’t provide any type of threat for them even when they played the classic forcefeed Cristiano gameplan

  9. JustSome70sGuy on

    Taking Bruno off…. Martinez, ruined the golden age of Belgium. And now hes come for Portugal. Portugal should be playing MUCH better football than that with the talent they have.

    Its weird keeping Ronnie on so he can score in another finals, and then not play to his strengths of giving him service. Absolute madness for Martinez.

  10. After seeing the type of football Roberto Martinez has produced with this quality of player for the Portuguese national side, he’s made himself a frontrunner for next England manager.

  11. My utter distain for Martinez reached new levels I didn’t think possible. The man is and has always been an absolute fraud.

    That France team were firing blanks and their for the taking and instead they just spend all game trying to cross to Ronaldo.

    I wanted Portugal to go out in the group stage partly because of the above distain but mostly because Bruno needs a long ass rest.

  12. Martinez deserved the karmic justice of a penalty shootout for taking Bruno off, so early at that

  13. Bruno does much more than just a penalty taker. He could have created chances to score and win in normal time. It was stupid to take him off.

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