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DélioPT on 27 June 2014
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lestatdark said:
DélioPT said:


He thought that those who were already experienced in playing these kind of games and know his style of playing would offer him the best team.
It`s the team that lead Portugal to the world cup, isn`t it?

True, and how much did we stumble to get in the WC in the first place? If it wasn't for a CR7 at 100% and particularly inspired on the away game vs Sweden, we wouldn't have made it through the play-offs.

We lost against Russia, drew both games against Israel, drew one game against Northern Ireland at home and we barely made the win against Luxembourg in the away game. The signs of match quality deterioration were there and Bento kept being stubborn not only with the same players, but with his same ideals. If he wants to be stalwart about what he believes it's the best for Portugal, then he too must suffer the consequences for when those ideals and plans fail miserably.

Can`t argue with that.

But the truth is, at least in these 3 games, it was clear that the ones who failed were the players. I`ll admit that i didn`t see the 1st game, from what i was told and from what i heard, it was no different than the other games.

Not that Paulo Bento couldn`t have done better. If all those injuries were a fruit of the excessive heat or in other words, a consequence of bad adaptation to weather conditions, then, he really is to blame.

The injuries did hurt our plans aswell.
For example, losing Coentrão was more than noticable in the game against USA . USA only attacked on the left side of Portugal`s defense and André Almeida, no matter how fit he was for the job, also getting injured didn`t help in that game.

I think we must have broken some kind of record in injuries at a WC.