There is only one word to describe the run of Hungarians in Euro 2016 - Inspirational! A win against a decent Austria team and then the draw against the smallest nation at the Euro's Iceland facing 12% of icelanding population in the stadium. Not bad at all from Hungary. With no major stars and a good group of players plying their trade in Polish, Turkish and German leagues - they have proven many wrong and qualified for the last 16. Will they now be able to stop portugal again and top the group remains to be seen.
On the other hand Ronaldo and co have been facing a lot of criticism about not just the performances but also the remarks Ronaldo made against Iceland looking at their celebrations. What Ronaldo said may be honestly true that Iceland over celebrated but the world expects a global star to be humble. I personally do not see anything wrong with Ronaldo being frank but the world sees it differently. Matters were made worse when Ronaldo failed to convert a penalty against Austria and a 0-0 draw followed. Its true that portugal had a decent game but they were the overwhelming favorites to top the group and we will have to see if they can achieve that with a win over hungary. Portugal have everything with decent players over the park. Their young defensive midfielder William carvalho is much sought after by many clubs in europe and its only a matter of time before he makes the big move with Super agent Jorge mendes trying to find a buyer. Along side carvalho Monaco's Joao Moutinho is expected to play as a play maker. these two combine with explosive Joao Mario who is also expected to move to a big club after a stellar season with sporting lisbon and Valencia's Andre gomes (whos being extensively linked with manchester united) form a fantastic midfield clubs in europe are willing to pay atleast 100 million pounds for with fee of 40 million pounds being mentioned for each of Mario and gomes.
At some point bayerns new signing Renato sanches is expected to show his trickery and pace which lead to him being dubbed the new ronaldinho. Sanches's fee could rise to an astonishing 88 million euros and that kind of money being spent on an 18 year told tells something about loads of talent hes got. Portugal are expected to line up in 4-4-1-1 formation with Ronaldo leading the line and Nani supporting him. Nani came to Old trafford in the summer of 2008 being hailed as a wonder kid and as the air to Ronaldo's throne but never could quite live up to the expectations. But he had a decent season at Fenerbarce and is expected to move to a bigger club this season.But Nani is certainly a better choice than a 32 year old Ricardo quaresma who was famously signed by Mourinho at Inter Milan and ended up a flop in the end. Portugal have always had problems with having a quality striker but this time out they neither have their old war horses Helder postiga and Nuno gomes so Ronaldo will have to fill in.But the wounded Portugal with bundles of talent will look to trounce Hungary whom they have beaten on every occasion they played them in a major tournament. Portugal will look to repeat that and move forward to round of 16 and avoid a major debacle in the tournament they played and lost the final against greece in 2004. It will be an interesting game to see how the hungarians handle a hungry portugal. I think portugal will come out on top finally. Heres my prediction
Prediction 2-0 to Portugal
On the other hand Ronaldo and co have been facing a lot of criticism about not just the performances but also the remarks Ronaldo made against Iceland looking at their celebrations. What Ronaldo said may be honestly true that Iceland over celebrated but the world expects a global star to be humble. I personally do not see anything wrong with Ronaldo being frank but the world sees it differently. Matters were made worse when Ronaldo failed to convert a penalty against Austria and a 0-0 draw followed. Its true that portugal had a decent game but they were the overwhelming favorites to top the group and we will have to see if they can achieve that with a win over hungary. Portugal have everything with decent players over the park. Their young defensive midfielder William carvalho is much sought after by many clubs in europe and its only a matter of time before he makes the big move with Super agent Jorge mendes trying to find a buyer. Along side carvalho Monaco's Joao Moutinho is expected to play as a play maker. these two combine with explosive Joao Mario who is also expected to move to a big club after a stellar season with sporting lisbon and Valencia's Andre gomes (whos being extensively linked with manchester united) form a fantastic midfield clubs in europe are willing to pay atleast 100 million pounds for with fee of 40 million pounds being mentioned for each of Mario and gomes.
At some point bayerns new signing Renato sanches is expected to show his trickery and pace which lead to him being dubbed the new ronaldinho. Sanches's fee could rise to an astonishing 88 million euros and that kind of money being spent on an 18 year told tells something about loads of talent hes got. Portugal are expected to line up in 4-4-1-1 formation with Ronaldo leading the line and Nani supporting him. Nani came to Old trafford in the summer of 2008 being hailed as a wonder kid and as the air to Ronaldo's throne but never could quite live up to the expectations. But he had a decent season at Fenerbarce and is expected to move to a bigger club this season.But Nani is certainly a better choice than a 32 year old Ricardo quaresma who was famously signed by Mourinho at Inter Milan and ended up a flop in the end. Portugal have always had problems with having a quality striker but this time out they neither have their old war horses Helder postiga and Nuno gomes so Ronaldo will have to fill in.But the wounded Portugal with bundles of talent will look to trounce Hungary whom they have beaten on every occasion they played them in a major tournament. Portugal will look to repeat that and move forward to round of 16 and avoid a major debacle in the tournament they played and lost the final against greece in 2004. It will be an interesting game to see how the hungarians handle a hungry portugal. I think portugal will come out on top finally. Heres my prediction
Prediction 2-0 to Portugal
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