u/indomienmalt

A thing that often gets missed when analysing Portugal, because they’re all focused on getting their Cristiano Ronaldo digs in, is the fact that in international football a Vitinha, Neves and Bruno midfield is very easy to either run through or play through and it’s happened multiple times in this match.
Without a destroyer, like Palinha or like William Carvalho, that whole space is too open.

I do wish at least Lars or someone more analytically inclined would delve into that instead of the lazy narratives