🚨🎙️Wayne Rooney: The Portugal team are failing Cristiano Ronaldo , they need to play through him
🗣️ Look at Cristiano Ronaldo's positioning in the first half, it's SO CLEVER! He has been making the Congo defenders look for him. They are worried about Ronaldo, and then Joao Neves can score
🗣️ Cristiano Ronaldo's positioning is just so clever at 41. Him standing offside all the time is the reason his teammates are receiving space."
🗣️Cristiano Ronaldo is very often standing in an offside position, but that's not him being lazy, he is actually being very clever. It means that Congo constantly has to search for him." And when they search for him, he automatically creates space for his teammates." So just keep an eye on his positioning, it's so clever." Bruno Fernandes and mendes needs to do better nice one from yoane wissa and Aaron wan-bissaka
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🚨Roy Keane on Portugal being held by Congo
🗣️ “I think some people expected Portugal to walk onto the pitch and score three or four goals automatically. That’s not how football works, especially at a World Cup.
What surprises me is that this isn’t what any of us expected. The whole world is disappointed with that midfield performance.
We know Bruno Fernandes is a player who usually creates chances, but today he created almost nothing. Vitinha was nowhere to be found as well, and that’s unacceptable from a trio many people called the best midfield in this tournament.
They dominated possession, but possession alone means nothing if you don’t create real danger.
One thing I noticed is that Portugal played a lot like PSG today. With Vitinha, João Neves and Nuno Mendes in the team, they controlled the ball but lacked quality and width in attack.
I see a lot of criticism aimed at Cristiano Ronaldo, but remove him and put someone else there, and Portugal probably look even worse.”