Brazil fought back hard and deserved to win, they were constantly pushing up forward. still a good game from the USA though, better than anything i've seen from fucking Portugal since Queirós became manager.
Portugal is so not going to make the World Cup. our best hope is second place and even so we need to be among the best second places to make the playoff. this is ridiculous, a team with players from Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester United, plus several players from Portugal's biggest clubs, is struggling agains the likes of Albania!
imo it's a problem of attitude and the coach:
the attitude sucks, Ronaldo thinks he's Figo and the other players think they're Ronaldo. as recently as 2000 we still only had 3 players in large European clubs - Figo, Rui Costa and Conceição at Barça, Fiorentina and Lazio respectively. everyone else came from the portuguese league and smaller european clubs like Oviedo and Standard Liege, there were no stars.
then the coach is a fucking retard, he plays Ronaldo near the center because he does it well at United, but forgets that there he has an excellent team behind him. with the national team, Ronaldo was always at his best playing on the wings.
his choices are also questionable at best - calling up players with zero portuguese league experience playing in bottom-of-the-table clubs in Spain and Italy (the guys from 2000 were well known and respected in Portugal) no one has ever heard of, and i'm not talking about youngsters either, i'm talking about fucking 27 year-olds who couldn't even make it in a Portuguese club.
sorry about the rant lol.
