Comments on: Euro 2004: Quarter-Finals, Portugal 2 – England 2 http://www.betalogue.com/2004/06/24/euro-2004-quarter-finals-portugal-2-england-2/ Notes from an unfinished world… Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vaag http://www.betalogue.com/2004/06/24/euro-2004-quarter-finals-portugal-2-england-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1432 vaag Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=1152#comment-1432 I fully agree with you. It was funny to watch the BBC (Lineker & Co. and others) and hear them complaining about almost everything (penalty spot, referee, disallowed goal) except their own coach's tactics. They really should look at home first. Basically Eriksson beliefs that his team will receive less goals than that of his opponent. He plays with two rigid defensive blocks of four and two wandering ones in front (he substitutes Scholes and Gerrard for Neville and Hargreaves, going from a defensive to an even more defensive attitude; for Eriksson this surely makes sense). On the contrary, Scolari thinks that his team will be capable of making at least one goal more that that of his opponent (thus he takes out defenders for attacking players). This is a fundamental difference in attitude. Eriksson attitude towards the game is an aberration of the good old cattenacio: cattenacio without a sweeper. Eriksson is Helenio Herrera reincarnated. Since 1966 England didn't manage to kick a dent in a pound of butter. That's a shame for such a big country. They should fire Eriksson and kick him back to Sweden. I fully agree with you. It was funny to watch the BBC (Lineker & Co. and others) and hear them complaining about almost everything (penalty spot, referee, disallowed goal) except their own coach’s tactics. They really should look at home first. Basically Eriksson beliefs that his team will receive less goals than that of his opponent. He plays with two rigid defensive blocks of four and two wandering ones in front (he substitutes Scholes and Gerrard for Neville and Hargreaves, going from a defensive to an even more defensive attitude; for Eriksson this surely makes sense). On the contrary, Scolari thinks that his team will be capable of making at least one goal more that that of his opponent (thus he takes out defenders for attacking players). This is a fundamental difference in attitude.
Eriksson attitude towards the game is an aberration of the good old cattenacio: cattenacio without a sweeper. Eriksson is Helenio Herrera reincarnated.
Since 1966 England didn’t manage to kick a dent in a pound of butter. That’s a shame for such a big country. They should fire Eriksson and kick him back to Sweden.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.betalogue.com/2004/06/24/euro-2004-quarter-finals-portugal-2-england-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 Andrew Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=1152#comment-1433 England played very negatively in that match, allowed Portugal to come at them time and again. We defended well, and snuffed out most of their attacks. However, we should have put the game beyond doubt well before then, with the quality players we have, we should have buried the Portuguese long before they equalised. Sven is the best manager we have had in a long long time. He has made a very tough team, but with little "team flair"… Very Italian in it's style of play, difficult to beat, but we just don't win enough… The disallowed goal… well, it should have stood, but hey, life goes on. Hopefully all our bad luck and negativity will have been used up in this tournament. Roll on Germany 2006! England played very negatively in that match, allowed Portugal to come at them time and again. We defended well, and snuffed out most of their attacks. However, we should have put the game beyond doubt well before then, with the quality players we have, we should have buried the Portuguese long before they equalised.

Sven is the best manager we have had in a long long time. He has made a very tough team, but with little “team flair”… Very Italian in it’s style of play, difficult to beat, but we just don’t win enough…

The disallowed goal… well, it should have stood, but hey, life goes on. Hopefully all our bad luck and negativity will have been used up in this tournament. Roll on Germany 2006!

]]> By: vaag http://www.betalogue.com/2004/06/24/euro-2004-quarter-finals-portugal-2-england-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1434 vaag Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=1152#comment-1434 >well, it should have stood Maybe in England, but certainly not in the rest of Europe! >well, it should have stood

Maybe in England, but certainly not in the rest of Europe!

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