Sporting CP 2 CD Tondela 2
Taça da Liga - Benfica (A) Hugely comfortable home win. Otamendi opens the scoring on 40 with a penalty. Lukebakio made it 2-0 on 82 and Pavlidis made it 3-0 four minutes into time added on at the end of the 90. Xg 2.01 to 0.29. Benfica converted 2 of their 2 big chances, Tondela failed to create 1.
Matchday 11 - AVS (A) Lopes gave Tondela the lead on 13, Bane made it 1-1 on 42. Perea turned the game on its head when he put AVS' ahead on 61. Henryque levelled from the penalty spot on 70 and the game finished 2-2. Xg 0.92 to 2.00. AVS missed their 1 big chance, Tondela missed 2 of 3.
Matchday 12 - Vitória (H) Late heartbreak as Camara scores a penalty one minute beyond the 90 for a 1-0 away win. Xg 1.46 to 1.33. CDT missed both their big chances, Vitória took their only one.
Taça de Portugal 4th round - Caldas (H) The cup tie proved a literal pain in the Cald-as as they were knocked out 6-5 on penalties.
Matchday 13 – Gil Vicente (A) First win in six in all
competitions came courtesy of Henryque who converted a penalty on 34 for a 1-0
win. Xg 0.52 to 1.09. Attempts were a
ratio of 3:1 with Gil recording 15 in total. They missed their 1 big chanced,
CDT scored 1 of 2.
Matchday 14 – Porto (H) Goalless at half time, Aghehowa scored 2 minutes into
the second half. Tondela’s hopes of getting a foot back into the game destroyed
within another minute when Gomes made it 2-0 to the visitors and that’s how the
game finished. Xg 0.48 to 1.94. No big chances for CDT, Porto scored both of
theirs.
Matchday 15 – Nacional (A) Despite taking the lead 3 minutes
into the second half through an Aurélio og, CDT unable to take anything away
from their island visit. Vitor made it 1-1 on 67, Boia makes it 2-1 a full 8
minutes into additional time and if they wasn’t crazy enough, Ramirez converted
a penalty 14 minutes into time added on to make it 3-1. This was despite
Nacional going down to 10 after just 18 minutes when Deivison was shown a
straight red. Henryque missed a penalty on 36. Pefok missed another penalty 8
minutes into additional time at the end of the 90. Their misery was compounded
when Medina was shown a straight red which led to the 3rd goal. Xg
2.35 to 3.57. Tondela missed all four big chances, Nacional scored 3 of their
4.
Matchday 16 - Casa Pia (H) Cavaleiro converted a penalty on
57 to give CDT the lead. However this was short lived as Larrazabal equalised 4
minutes later. Nhaga turned the game on its head on minute 69 to give Casa Pia
a 2-1 win. Xg 1.75 to 1.20. Tondela miss a whopping 3 of 4 big chances, the
visitors scored their only one.
Matchday 17 – Arouca (H) Tondela end their run of 3 straight defeats with a 3-1
win. Trezza opened the scoring for the yellow and blues on 7. Maviram equalised
for CDT on 11. Pefok put them ahead on 33 and Rodriguez made sure of all 3
points on 59. Despite the scoreline Xg of 0.45 to 0.77. 5 attempts in total for
CDT scoring their only big chance. Arouca missed 2 of their 3.
Matchday 18 – Moreirense (A) Maracas scores the games only
goal on 61 minutes. Xg 0.53 to 0.48. CDT fail to create a single big chance,
Moreirense miss both of theirs.
Matchday 19 – Braga (H) Gut wrencher for Tondela as Zalazar converts a penalty
for a 1-0 win in the first minute of addition time for the visitors. Xg 1.27 to
1.58. CDT miss 2 big chances, Braga score with their only one.
Matchday 20 – Famalicão (A) A 3-0 loss for CTD with goals coming from De Amorim
on 30, Dias on 68 and Santos on 81. XG 0.65 to 0.13. Neither side despite the
scoreline registered a single big chance. The result a 3rd straight
defeat.
Matchday 21 – Benfica (H) Huge point for Tondela against Benfica who are yet to
lose a game this season in the Liga. 0-0 the final score. Xg 0.48 to 2.10.
Benfica missed all 4 of their big chances, CDT missed their only one.
Matchday 22 – Estoril (A) Henryque flew out of the traps with goals on 11 and
15 to put the visitors 2-0 up. Carvalho made it 1-2 on 25, Ferro drew the sides
level on 28 and after a frenetic opening half hour, both sides from then on
couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo from 2 yards. Point shared apiece. Xg
0.74 to 1.36. Estoril miss their only big chance, CDT score both of theirs.
Matchday 23 – Alverca (H) Milovanovic puts the visitors 1-0 up after 3. Silva
scored 11 minutes from time to secure a 1-1 draw. Xg 1.67 to 0.66. Both sides
miss 1 big chance, Alverca only created the 1, Tondela with 2. CDT now 3 games
unbeaten if yet to still find a win.
Matchday 24 – Estrela (A) A first win since January 3rd. CDT went
1-0 up with just 3 minutes gone from the penalty spot through Bebeto. Henryque
made it 2-0 on 74 to secure all 3 points. Xg 0.94 to 1.36. CDT miss 1 of 2 big
chances, Estrela missed their 1.
Matchday 25 – Santa Clara (H) Bebeto converts a penalty on 9 to make it 1-0.
Silva equalised 5 minutes later for 1-1. Conçeicão restored the lead for CDT on
59. Araujo equalised 3 minutes from time for a 2-2 draw with a penalty kick. Xg
1.62 to 1.68. Both sides miss 1 of 2 big chances.
Matchday 26 – Rio Ave (H) Blesa the man with the red balloon celebrations
scored the games only goal on 69 for a 1-0 win to the visitors. Xg 0.69 to
1.23. Rio Ave miss 1 of 2 big chances, CDT miss their only one. Tondela’s 5
game unbeaten run comes to an end.
Matchday 27 – AVS (H) 0-0. Xg 0.87 to 0.89. Both sides missed their 1 big
chance. A far cry from the excitement of the 2-2 draw earlier in the season.
Matchday 28 – Vitória (A) A humbling day for the yellow and greens. Goals from
Camara (4), Nogueira (17), Samu (50 penalty), Silva (54) and Mendes (64)
secured a 5-0 thrashing. Xg 2.52 to 0.06. 0 big chances for the visitors,
Vitória scored 2 of 3.
Matchday 29 – Gil Vicente (H) CDT took the lead with 14
minutes gone through Lopes only to concede a penalty converted by Murilo on
minute 28. Eduardo put the visitors ahead on 89, however CDT picked up a
valuable point when Hodge made it 2-2 on plus 7. Xg 1.82 to 1.64. Tondela miss
3 of 4 big chances, Gil scored both theirs.
Matchday 30 – Porto (A) Despite holding the league leaders to a goalless half
time draw, goals from Veiga on 47 and Froholdt on 64 confirmed their 2-0
defeat. Xg 3.15 to a paltry 0.12 from 5 attempts from Tondela including no big
chances. 4 big chances for Porto missing 3. Tondela now with no win in 6.
Matchday 31 - Nacional (H) Two first half goals from Ramírez on 21 minutes and a Medina own goal on the half hour were enough to five the islanders a vital three points through a 2-0 win. Xg 1.38 to 1.26, Tondela missed their 1 big chance, Nacional all three of theirs.
Late night Thursday update - Braga beat Casa Pia 1-0. Torreense beat AD Fafe 2-0 to book their place in Jamor against the lions.
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Sporting CP 1/10
Draw 15/2
CD Tondela 14/1
Team News
Starting XI
Silva, Vagiannidis, Quaresma, Debast, Araújo, Bragança, Morita, Geny, Gonçalves, Quenda and Suárez
Substitutes
Virgínia, Diomande, Mangas, Santos, Kochorashvili, Trincão, Blopa, Guilherme, and Nel
At the back two changes. Diomande who had been a fitness doubt is replaced by Quaresma and Araújo comes back in for Mangas. In the centre Bragança is preferred to Kochorashvili. Geny returns in place of Trincão and Suárez comes back in for Nel. Felicíssimo drops out Of the matchday squad for the return of Nuno Santos from his second injury lay off. Those who were replaced in the starting XI are all named amongst the substitutes.
Tondela starting XI
31 Fontes
48 Manso
4 Marques
44 Silva
27 Conçeicão
8 Tavares
15 Sithole
32 Juanse
7 Maranhão
16 Lopes
70 Moudjatovic
Gonçalo Feio also makes five changes to his starting XI from their 2-0 defeat away at Nacional. Back in comes top scorer Maranhão who I'm assuming will wear Henryque on his shirt so I'm giving you advanced warning. No I lie apparently not.
First half
Nice touch in the tunnel from Sporting's players who hi-five all the club's mascots. Jubas pitch side waves his hands over the ball like he's got magical powers. A sparse crowd in attendance and that's being polite. Tondela in Black with yellow and white trim, Sporting in their traditional green and white horizontal stripes. Bragança takes the captain's armband in the absence of both Hjulmand and Trincão. Tondela are shown in a 4-3-3.
Fabio Verissimo the man in charge. Tondela get us underway. Sporting attack right to left.
1 Blocked shot from the edge of the box and a second which Silva stretched for and knocked straight to a Tondela player but the offside flag was up. Lopes with the original blocked shot from 18 yards
1 Fontes charges out of his area on the far side but Gonçalves ball into the centre could only find a black shirt
2 Quenda with a glorious chance misses from 8 yards as his shot from wide from a position on the left fires past the far post. Suspect it would have been offside to save his blushes.
5 Geny fires well wide from 16 yards on the far right of the Tondela area having made the space with his first touch
6 Tondela with a high press of five players. 1 hunting the ball and 4 in a tight row behind like flies around shit
7 Arm up of apology from Bragança as his pass goes astray and out of play as he looked to play Geny in inside the box
8 Fontes has his defence to thank as his goal kick went straight to a Sporting player but the attack broke down. He's had a nervous start to the game
9 Every player bar Rui Silva in the Tondela half. Fantastic pass to find Geny inside the box from Debast but he failed to capitalise
10 Geny pokes a shot wide from 12 yards with three black shirts in front of him
11 We're treated to a replay of Debast's pass from behind. Kids got a wand of a foot.
12 Gonçalves looks to thread a pass to Geny centrally but again short of its target. He's been heavily involved in the opening minutes
13 Corner far side to Sporting headed away by Sitole
13 Break in play as Geny goes down injured. Replay shows his ankle bent under a soft bit of ground. Felt that
14 Tondela player on the ground. Replay shows an arm from Araújo into his midriff
15 Referee runs over to Debast and Maranhão who are having handbags
16 Replay of Maranhão deliberately aiming a kick at Debast in the box. Not enough to warrant how he went down but he still kicked out with his studs up behind him
18 Lopes is booked with a frankly appalling challenge on Quenda close on the halfway line
19 Foul from Morita on Maranhão who rolls about as if he's Neymar and then just gets up. Bizarre
20 Araújo brings a diving save from 8 yards which was heading into the bottom left hand corner
22 Disguised pass from Vagiannidis found Suárez inside the box but he ran into two defenders and then gets penalised for a foul
24 Cross from the left headed clear for a corner nearside by Debast taking no chances
24 Silva comes through a crowd of players to punch clear
25 Terrible pass from Debast from inside the box puts Sporting in trouble. The Belgian makes amends by clearing the danger for a corner nearside
26 Equally as terrible corner. One pass which their player tried to lay off back to the taker who was by then offside
27 Araújo taken out by Manso who in fairness took the ball first, player second
28 Corner far side to Sporting and my feed jumped an entire minute. Scoreline still says 0-0 so I'm guessing nothing noteworthy happened
31 Geny with a disguised pass found Suárez whose first time shot beings a save from 8 yards
31 Free kick by the far side touchline as Moudjatovic went through Vagiannidis. Poor ball in only found the keeper
33 Morita lofts the ball forward into the box as Suárez ran between two defenders but his final shot from the edge of the six yard box two yards wide of the left hand post
36 Quaresma goes through the back of Conçeicão inside the Tondela half. I'd forgotten he was playing
37 Vagiannidis loses his right boot on the far side in a challenge. Geny picks it up and holds it to the referee like Prince Charming trying to find Cinderella
38 Tondela’s coach looks like he needs some time with the club's fitness department. His black outfit not hiding his bulk, he's sweating away on the sidelines
39 Bragança shoots straight at Fontes from 16 yards
40 Vagiannidis called for a foul on Conçeicão. He's done the referee there with his cry which the pitch side mics picked up
41 Araújo concedes a foul near side. Tondela play it short on the right and the cross is flashed across the six yard box and to safety
42 Manso booked for another frankly appalling late challenge on Quenda sliding in
43 Rui Borges deep in thought looks on from the touchline
44 Araújo the latest lion to nearly get Sporting into trouble. He tries to shepherd a ball out of play on the goal line and failed as the Tondela man somehow kept it in
45 Quaresma booked for a late challenge on Marques. He can't believe he's been booked for that
Plus one shown
Half time
Sporting CP 0 CD Tondela 0
Quaresma continues his arguments with Verissimo about the booking a minute before. Not sure why he's bothering because he's not going to change it. Well what a 135 minutes of football. They created more than they did in the first half of Sunday but that's two games on the spin against the leagues bottom two sides where the lions have gone in at 0-0. Tondela with just 1 attempt, the one that came in the first 30 seconds. They'd be happy to leave with a point. Rui Borges men have to find a winner from somewhere. There's been more needle than there has quality. Debast and Araújo both guilty of lapses in concentration that could have cost Sporting. Suárez still looks like a player trying to conserve his energy for the world cup finals in the summer. Frankly I hope he doesn't come back.
Second half
Advert at half time for Leonardo Jardim's present side. You'll be hearing a lot about him from me when the season finishes with a series on Bruno de Carvalho's reign in charge of the lions that has been eating into all my free time. Tondela back out first. Nuno Santos pulling his socks up. I suggest his teammates do the same. Finally the Sporting players make their way back onto the pitch. Geny Catamo with personalised shin pads. Sporting get us back underway. Big 45 minutes. They have to find a winner from somewhere. How we miss Gyökeres.
45 In the opening seconds Tondela have a back six. Going to be one of those halves clearly
46 Sporting have their pockets picked but retrieved the ball
46 Lopes gets it all wrong from 24 yards and sends a pea roller well wide
46 Great ball into Quenda open in the final third and he misses it totally and the ball rolled under his foot. He is crap
47 As Fontes collects a stray pass you can see an old woman behind head in hand looking thoroughly fed up. Join the club
49 Manson dispossesses Morita on the edge of the area and fires wide from 18 yards
49 Dog shit from Quenda who passes straight to a Tondela player on the edge of the area. Get him off
51 Suárez goes down on the edge of the area. Referee not interested
52 Verissimo indicates VAR check complete
53 Maranhão fires into the crowd from 14 yards. That came from a Sporting attack and Tondela charged on the break from one box to another
54 Huge save from Fontes in the Tondela goal. Gonçalves smashed a shot from 18 yards which ends up in a corner
55 Clash of heads between two defenders
56 ➡️⬅️ Blopa and Trincão for Quenda and Vagiannidis
57 Blopa caught offside and then overcooks his pass for good measure which went out for a throw in. Just needs to calm himself
57 Flex of the hands from Hjulmand watching on
58 Fuck me. Geny puts the ball over from two yards with the goal at his mercy. How the fuck has he missed that? Debast with a beautiful ball found the head of Araújo who put it on a plate for him
59 Suárez shot blocked. Someone went for an overhead kick and couldn't connect. The home fans turn up the noise. The opening goal is coming
61 GOAL Sporting CP 1 CD Tondela 0. As I was saying. Blopa cross from the right is met by Suarez who first time guides it past a defender and Fontes from 8 yards into the bottom right hand corner
63 Blopa puts exactly the same ball in but this time no one on the end of it. I've had this argument all season about Fresneda's crossing all season that it's targeted into an area and perhaps someone is supposed to meet the run as we've finally just seen with the Suárez goal
63 Blopa spanks on into the stands from 24 yards
63 Break in play for an injury to a Tondela defender .
64 ➡️⬅️ Hodge and Aïko on. Maranhão and Tavares off
66 Shake of the head from Gonçalves as he sends it out of play from 16 yards
69 Whatever they do between now and the end of the 90 just do not fucking concede a goal
70 Another change coming up as Guilherme puts his shirt on
70 Twice in a minute Trincão tries to dance his way through the Tondela defence to good effect
71 Big tackle from Blopa left Aïko on the floor. Got the ball then the man. Nothing different to what we saw in the first half on Araújo
73 Conçeicão gets his oscar performance in on the edge of the Sporting box and Verissimo had a front row ticket. Quaresma penalised
74 ➡️ ⬅️ Gonçalves for Guilherme
74 ➡️ ⬅️ Double change for Tondela, Sithole for Félix and Cícero for Lopes
75 Aïko pings the free kick about ten foot over the bar from 20 yards. Justice done
76 Suárez on the charge down the right. He can still move. Carries on into the box, goes for the step over and the defender with the easy job of taking it off him. Trincão shot blocked from 16 yards
77 Yellow to Blopa for a late challenge
78 GOAL Sporting CP 2 CD Tondela 0. The visitors second own goal in as many games. Geny's shot from 18 yards turned into his own net from 7 yards by Silva who got his feet all wrong
80 Maxi shot blocked from 17 yards
80 Kochorashvili and Nuno Santos set to come on
82 Blopa concedes possession. How long are that kids legs by the way? Araújo deals with the danger inside the box and mops up the youngsters mistake
82 Flick of the outside of the right boot to the six yard box and Silva collects to the cry of RUI from behind his goal
84 Arsenal fans watching this game would be so confused because we've not had a break in play for five minutes until Conçeicão took out Geny
85 ➡️⬅️ Finally the changes made. Captain's armband to Quaresma. Bragança for Kochorashvili. Geny is helped off by the physio
86 ➡️⬅️ Geny for Nuno Santos
86 Geny is still getting treatment on the sides. Finally he's up and hobbling off
87 Blopa loses the ball again. Aïko hit by an earthquake inside the Sporting area. Kochorashvili tells him to get up in no uncertain terms. Why hasn't he been booked for simulation?
88 Hodge ball from the left and Manso shanks wide from 8 yards
89 Penalty Tondela. Félix fouled inside the box. That's bollocks. He can't give that surely? That has to be the softest penalty since… well Sunday
Plus four shown
91 Aïko with the ball. huge save from Silva diving to his right, brought his right hand up to punch away. Corner Tondela
+1 GOAL Sporting CP 2 CD Tondela 1. Cícero flicked on header comes off the arm of Blopa and into the net and Tondela do have their goal
+3 Corner far side Tondela. Keeper has come up. GOAL Sporting CP 2 CD Tondela 2. Fuck me. Cícero guides it past a full stretched Rui Silva from 8 yards with a bullet header. I hate football
+5 Were back underway. No idea how long is left
+5 Cross from the left straight into the hands of Rui Silva
Full time
Sporting CP 2 CD Tondela 2
The final word
Did they just happen or am I having a cheese dream? Sporting have thrown away three points. Whistles abound from the home fans. That's quite a collapse by any standards. The game changed on the penalty and from the angle I saw, it came from the slightest of touches into the small of a player's back. Never a penalty in a million years unless I've missed something obvious. Justice done when Silva saves but it went out for a corner and it goes 2-1. Then in fairness there's nothing wrong with the header for 2-2 but fuck me. Sporting are like a caramel bar post 90 minutes played with a soft centre. Two points from six against the leagues bottom two sides. I'll let that one sink in. If I say the last time I saw something collapse in that manner I'll be cancelled for life. You can figure it out.
Ten minutes after full time and I'm in a state of disbelief. Did that really just happen? I'm guessing it did. I feel like a parent whose child has let them down. I'm not angry, I'm disappointed. Having someone being angry with you is far easier to deal with. Disappointment is an absolute killer. Sporting went off at 2/25 to win that game on the end. I didn't see what it was when we went 1-0 because just when I thought about potentially laying it and stood up to do it they went 1-0 up. Perhaps it's my fault that I sat back down again. The saving grace is with a draw like that at least the title had already gone because had we lost it in that manner I probably would have ended up breaking something, possibly attached to part of my own body.
I must have missed something for that penalty award because I cannot see how he's given that. Mind you I ended the AVS post on Sunday by saying what goes around comes around and so I'd better double down here. No point in complaining because you'll give yourself a heart attack and I always said football will be what finishes me off one day and I'd rather not die after a 2-2 to Tondela if it's OK with you. Credit to Cícero for the equalising goal because that's one hell of a header. They'd better stay up inspired by it otherwise that's another kick in the bollocks if they don't.
We come away with the same issues from Sunday night, lack of finishing in the final third, only this time you can throw some really poor defending into the mix from set pieces. How Geny misses that chance from two yards out is beyond me. A cat has just run out into my path and I'm telling you now it was fortunate it didn't get Zouma’d. Stupid fucking thing. The irony going back to that miss is it's Geny's ball into the box that that gets turned in for 2-0 with an own goal. But at 2-0 against a side second bottom you shouldn't be drawing 2-2 and especially not with three minutes of additional time on the clock.
The problem with recency bias is it undoes any good work you accomplished at other parts of the season. Nights like beating the current European Champions PSG seem a very long time ago now and what will be remembered for much longer come the end of May is their failure to beat both AVS and Tondela and suffer the ignominy of not automatically qualifying for the Champions League when their run this season accumulated so many points for the Portuguese co-efficient.
I'm not going to say you can't defend the results in the last two games but there's very little point in trying to waste too much effort in doing so. In my time following Sporting there's frequently been an issue of thinking you just have to turn up to win these games. It's nothing new. They should even with all those changes be good enough to beat both sides but points I'll happily argue is that there's a huge difference for the sides when one team has played 50 games and the other has played something like 15 less. Maybe if I check it'll help take my mind off things. That was Tondela’s 34th game of the season. Sunday was AVS’s 35th game of the season. For Sporting game 52. So not a bad guess on my part but still way off the actual figures of 18 less and 17 less. 990 minutes combined playing time per game. That's 16,830 minutes less for Tondela and 17,820 for AVS. That's a lot of much fresher legs across two entire squads and that's before you factor in the mental fatigue, disappointment of not winning a third title, losing to Arsenal in the a champions League and I'm doing what I said I wouldn't do. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. So some house keeping. Blopa credited with the own goal to make it 2-1 and had it not gone in he'd have given away a legitimate penalty anyway from memory. I'm still in a state of disbelief quite frankly and it's now gone two minutes past eleven.
Across the course of a season there are plenty of times you make mistakes which don't get punished and then they turn up like buses all at once. We saw a pass on the first half from Debast inside his own box that fell short and out the side straight on the back foot. We saw Araújo trying to shepherd the ball out of play and the Tondela forward not give up on the ball. Maybe that was the difference maker. That extra 5% of effort. That ability to be able to look in the mirror tomorrow morning and at the end of the season and know that you didn't leave anything out there on the pitch and if your season ends up with being relegated at least you gave it your all in the final weeks of the season.
Sporting have a massive rebuilding to do in the summer. They've not spent their money wisely it's fair to say. Yet we've been here before, just expectations have risen from certain quarters. I have spent the last seven to ten days writing thousands of words on the period under Bruno de Carvalho latterly focusing on the three years under Jorge Jesus for which we paid him €17m for the privilege to win a Taça da Liga and a Supertaça. If Borges stays the same period and only collects a Liga title and a Taça de Portugal and we've paid him the best part of say €5.5m guessing what his contract renewal will be then cent for cent he'll have been worth his weight in gold compared to Jesus and been more success in his first 5 months in charge than Jesus was over 36. In Jorge Jesus' last season he didn't win a single league game against Benfica, Porto or Braga and lost 2 of his 6 games. As I say nothing new with Sporting. They made it to the Quarter finals in Europe though that's Europa League not Champions League.
Back to tonight - Quenda was truly woeful like 2 out of 10 woeful. Bonne chance at Strasbourg mon petit ami I hope you have been learning French.
Luis Suárez, took his goal well I'll give him that and twice I saw some effort but that's all I've seen in about his last four or five games now. He looked like Sporting Gyökeres for all of about five seconds as he bundles a Tondela player off the ball on the right wing and then looked like Arsenal Gyökeres by the time he tries to round the defender in the box and lost the ball. 3 out of 10 and if I'm feeling generous I might let him have a 4.
Blopa. Bloody hell. Within a minute he's been caught offside and then shanked the ball out for a throw in. Then he's setting up the Suárez goal. Then losing the ball over and over again in midfield and finally scores an own goal and I can't tell you if he's just raw or a disaster waiting to happen.
Quaresma was away with the fairies, Vagiannidis makes Fresneda look like Hakimi by comparison. Araújo is either genuinely on his last legs or suffering World Cup-itis a la Suárez and I'm not even sure if Uruguay qualified for the World Cup finals this summer. Morita looked like a man who'd been run into the ground for the last month and I've always said if Bragança was as good as he thinks he is in his head then he'd be a €100m superstar. Bang average and as a captain he should be leading by example.
Zeno Debast, Christ he's infuriating because he could win at Augusta without a set of clubs one minute and then his head is on what he's having for dinner the next. I've got to come up with four votes for man of the match and I'm spitting them out like dummies and leaving myself not much wiggle room. Vote one Gonçalves because he was at least bright and key in the opening half hour and had one decent chance. Vote two Geny and I'm scraping the barrel when I think about his miss from 2 yards out. Trincão third vote because at least he showed some effort and industry when he came on. Which leaves who? Nuno Santos, Kochorashvili, Guilherme and Silva. Well despite letting in two I'll go Silva fourth choice. I'll go Gonçalves my man of the match which is shit and say I'm not looking forward to Vitória at all Monday night and frankly I'm done with the season with four games remaining. Roll on May 25th.
0036 hours - housekeeping. Uruguay have made it to the World Cup finals. I've just watched the YouTube highlights noting they showed how the penalty was given but didn't show the save. I've not missed anything. He goes down like he's been hit with a two arm shove and Kochorashvili barely touched him. Fuck me.
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