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Martinez is such an embarrassing manager. The Portugal manager at the last World Cup wasn't scared to drop Ronaldo in some matches to benefit the team. Martinez has never been able to challenge or manage egos in his dressing room which is why we're treated to Ronaldo taking every free kick and shooting from any distance or angle. His ego and desperation for personal glory comes before the team effort.

If this goes to penalties, I think Ronaldo will try to take all five for Portugal.

Having seen this free kick I'm wondering whether Portugal weren't better off without Ronaldo egoistically trying to show how he's still a football hero.

It's a crime really that Spain vs Germany is a quarter final. Guarantees one of the two sides that both look like contenders and aren't horrendous to watch will be eliminated before the semi finals.

Results - Austrian Grand Prix No points for @Whiskey who didn't predict. The first points of the weekend were given out in Qualifying on Saturday, where the vast majority - everyone except for @Coma - went with the meta "Norris" pick for non-Verstappen pole and were duly rewarded with 5 points each. Things didn't quite go to plan for Norris on the Sunday. With everyone picking him as the non-Verstappen winner, a race-ending collision means that everyone ends up pointless for this prediction. There were still a reasonable number of points given out for the unusual Russell-Piastri-Sainz podium. @OrangeKhrush can consider himself unlucky having been the only person to put Russell 2nd on his podium, but he has to settle for 2 points along with @MUFC and @nudge for having the eventual race winner in their top three. @RandoEFC, @Stan, @MUFC and @Tommy all bag 5 points for Oscar Piastri's second place, while @The Palace Fan and @Coma picked up 2 consolation points having picked him for 3rd place. @DeadLinesman was the only person to put Carlos Sainz in his top three at all, and he nailed the position to boot, picking up 5 points to make up for Norris and Hamilton letting him down. Onto the random driver of the weekend, Carlos Sainz, and an exhibition in hedging your bets sees @Stan as the only one to score here, correctly predicting Sainz' 3rd place despite not placing him on his non-Verstappen podium earlier on. Finally, almost everyone successfully picked a driver who finished higher on Sunday than they did in the Sprint Race. @RandoEFC, @Stan and @DeadLinesman all counted their lucky stars when the Verstappen-Norris incident promoted Sergio Perez to 7th as he was on track to only match his 8th place from the Sprint. Both Mercedes drivers were on track to improve their results without the help of Norris' relegation, rewarding @nudge and @OrangeKhrush, who backed Hamilton, and @The Palace Fan and @Coma, who backed George Russell, with 5 points each. @Tommy's pick was Daniel Ricciardo whose point-scoring drive in 9th on Sunday eclipsed his 14th place in the Sprint. Only @MUFC was left empty-handed here, with a strong 10th place for Lance Stroll in Saturday's Sprint proving too high of a bar to improve upon in the Grand Prix. Here's what it does to the standings: Top scorer for the weekend, @Stan, goes from 4th to joint 1st, as he, @OrangeKhrush and @RandoEFC are drawn into a three-way tie heading into the middle race of the season next weekend. @Tommy remains in hot pursuit. @The Palace Fan, @nudge and @DeadLinesman have their own private battle going on in the midfield, all covered by only 3 points. @MUFC overtook @Coma this weekend in their battle for 8th. McLaren were this weekend's top scorers in the Constructors' table, and return to the top of the table. Aston Martin also fall behind Red Bull having led going into the weekend, while Mercedes can't be ruled out either. Ferrari bag a solid haul of points this week thanks to @Stan's top-score and 6 insurance points for his missing team-mate.

Well, he'll be playing Champions League in Brugge! And with all due respect to Tziolis performances can't imagine him getting a chance at Leverkusen, Bayern, Leipzig, or Dortmund! At most at Stuttgart and even there it would be questionable.

Well it was obvious how that's going to end. Slovenia only know how to defend.

What a shame...

Drkusic has been immense!

I said I can believe it... not sure how you were reading that..

Roberto Martinez refuses to take Ronaldo off the coach when they get back to the hotel. He's properly fucked it, he's been dogshite all tournament. Shooting from mad angles, taking free kicks from about 368 yards and just generally being a bit of a dickhead. He's absolutely done at this level.

He knows his career ie coming to an end. Its not just the penalty its his inability to get on the end of crosses. Its one thing scoring in Saudi, this level is so different. He won't take him off though, I'm convinced Martinez is instructed to not take him off.

Ronaldo is having a very public mid-life crisis here. Weak as piss from Martinez like I said to play into this display of main character syndrome. Ronaldo is making the Portuguese national team into a mere sideshow.

Think everyone who isn't Portuguese wished this

Why stop there he'll take the Slovenian ones too.

He was trying to move it on imo bad call by the ref on that one.

Odd choice!

It's about buying future talent and nurturing them over many seasons under many different managers so that in 8 years time after I have passed away we can win some silverware again...

Thank God we haven't got to watch extra time of this.

They are calling him the 'Wonder Kid' and that's because in 5 years time after being loaned out multiple times to untold clubs and not working out as hoped everyone will be 'wondering' what the hell happened to him..

Have garlic sales gone up today in Dusseldorf @Tommy?

Yeah, fucking peasants

Gomez and Konsa don't prevent the bottleneck that we currently have either as neither have that natural inclination to attack wide spaces, unless I'm totally misreading Joe Gomez - a player you know a lot better than I do. We had a similar issue at Leicester for years, we had Ricardo Pereira, fantastic right back, James Justin, promising young right back, we sold Ben Chilwell and our solution was.... Tim Castagne, a right wing back, right footed, and we'd play him or Justin on the left. They could do a job, but I think you need more than "do a job" to win serious honours. Round pegs in round holes. I called it pre-tournament, take Tyrick Mitchell who while not at the top level, is a perfectly adequate full back used to making the lateral runs that a left back makes. Even for the fact I'd say Gomez doesn't fix this issue, I'm still playing him there before Trippier. I don't blame Trippier massively but he was bad in his own position, let alone another. The only player I've seen properly pull this off was Spinazzola in the last Euros for Italy. Saka is very much the sacrificial lamb here and I do think it's bad for him, and I get him being unhappy with it, but I think Saka left back and Palmer right wing is a better bet than having to bottleneck our build up play with having Trippier there. I rate Saka but I don't think he's pulled up any trees since Serbia either. It's an entirely self-inflicted problem by the manager but it's probably the least bad solution. I do agree with this as well - Palace Fan was saying this earlier in the tournament that there is an element of wanting a scapegoat and Southgate, while he carries most of the can, I don't think we're that straight forward a fix. That being said, I can't believe another manager would have us playing this badly. It's almost funny at this point, we seem to be failing upwards in this tournament. It's like the worse we are, the better the situation gets for us. It definitely looks like he's said that. I'm quite torn on Bellingham. I think he's very good, our best prospect in a long time but England being England we always manage to notch that hype up to the point it's insufferable. Real Madrid have got blood on their hands giving him the number 5. The Zidane comparisons are genuinely laughable, nobody with working eyes can genuinely make that comparison. But that being said I think what he did yesterday does give him a pass for the largely bad performance. It's not as simple as "he scored what else do you expect", if he'd scored a tap in in the 15th minute in a game we went on to draw 1-1, I'd agree with the general rhetoric that it shouldn't be overlooked just because he scored. But he has yesterday in a moment of genuine magic saved England's tournament potentially. That isn't something England players do. When has Kane ever done that? When has Foden for England? Saka? You name them. He stepped up and saved us frankly a humiliation. However this is where the positives stop on him. I'm disappointed because I thought yes, we've been infected with that Real Madrid killer instinct, this might genuinely be the difference. Then I see him peddling that rubbish. He'd be reigned in at Real Madrid for saying that sort of thing. You think Kroos and Modric are letting him gob off after they've needed extra time to knock Alaves out of the Copa Del Rey? The culture at England has clearly gone a bit rotten again. Back on the defensive after cheating death, after a genuinely disgraceful performance in what would've been probably Slovakia's most famous ever win. I don't take back a word of my criticism on England. I'll shut up when you win a trophy. Not fluke a win against fucking Slovakia. Find some shame.

When you'd like to join in on the discussion about England at the Euro, but you're German.

It was the manner of the performance though. They're playing slick, fluid football. It's not boring and is very easy on the eye. They're confident. They convincingly put away Croatia, and beat Albania with their 2nd string side pretty much, which shows their strength in depth.

He's a little shit.

Oi, you're fucking biased innit. I'll smash ur head in m8. swear on me mum.

And the worst and most boring shithouse team of the tournament is blessed with a world class goal. Fuck Southgate

That the normally very positive @Stan I know and love has made a joke this dark over a football match is 100% proof that Gareth Southgate is a fucking terrorist.

England have a generational fullback that Real Madrid are tapping up and they've got Walker and Trippier out there getting rinsed by Eastern Bloc randos.