World Cup 2018 Qualifiers

Coentrão AND Bruno Alves. :nono:
Actually don't agree with you if you take into account last match was 3 days ago, Guerreiro is injured, Eliseu is almost 35, and Coentrão is playing more now, Alves the same stuff replacing Fonte who actually since he moved to West ham has been worse.

Having said that I would have called Paulo Oliveira from Eibar or Kevin Rodrigues from Real Sociedad, but Santos values hierarchies on the team.
 
Actually don't agree with you if you take into account last match was 3 days ago, Guerreiro is injured, Eliseu is almost 35, and Coentrão is playing more now, Alves the same stuff replacing Fonte who actually since he moved to West ham has been worse.

Having said that I would have called Paulo Oliveira from Eibar or Kevin Rodrigues from Real Sociedad, but Santos values hierarchies on the team.

Bruno Alves plays for Rangers. That should be an automatic ban from selection in itself.

Coentrão is a fairy. Don't rate him at all anymore. Wasted his career.
 
Bruno Alves plays for Rangers. That should be an automatic ban from selection in itself.
For you, we don't give a feck about that here in Portugal.
Coentrão is a fairy. Don't rate him at all anymore. Wasted his career.
Again, he has been playing now, Guerreiro is injured, this is international football, not everyone has to play on Real Madrid or in the EPL to be a good squad player.
 


It's nearly 2018 and our left side of defense is Bruno Alves and Coentrão :lol:

The worst part is it's not even that bad of a decision considering who the other options are. I'm worried about Danilo instead of William too. Danilo always underperforms with the national team as William helps us control the matches more so today is going to be a huge opportunity for him. Other than that I like that Santos picked Gelson instead of Bernardo, it shows he actually takes into consideration what the players are doing for their clubs.

This is a huge game and I'm dreading it but hopefully our love for the playoffs doesn't get in the way of a good performance.
 
For you, we don't give a feck about that here in Portugal.

Again, he has been playing now, Guerreiro is injured, this is international football, not everyone has to play on Real Madrid or in the EPL to be a good squad player.

What I'm saying is I'm good enough to play against Rangers and score.
 
It's nearly 2018 and our left side of defense is Bruno Alves and Coentrão
The only other decent options you had was Paulo Oliveira or Kevin Rodrigues, if Guerreiro is injured, and Eliseu or Fonte are what they are looks reasonable, even if I would like to integrate the other 2 mentioned.
 
Mh, i was told it was the romanians you hated. Macedonians too?
Macedonians are just fake Bulgarians but yeah I know a lot of Bulgarians that don't like Romanians either. I live in the US and only go for 2 months a year though so I can't speak for the country, but Romanians are big rivals
 
The only other decent options you had was Paulo Oliveira or Kevin Rodrigues, if Guerreiro is injured, and Eliseu or Fonte are what they are looks reasonable, even if I would like to integrate the other 2 mentioned.

Coentrão instead of Eliseu is understandable but there's no way Bruno Alves should be starting for us these days. It's just depressing looking at that defense and knowing Pepe will be gone soon
 
Macedonians are just fake Bulgarians but yeah I know a lot of Bulgarians that don't like Romanians either. I live in the US and only go for 2 months a year though so I can't speak for the country, but Romanians are big rivals
Yeah i meant that, like there's some kind of rivalry and you don't like them as a general rule, or rather, you're supposed to not like them. Every country as that, for us italians it's the french
 
Yeah i meant that, like there's some kind of rivalry and you don't like them as a general rule, or rather, you're supposed to not like them. Every country as that, for us italians it's the french

It's the french for any country tbf
 
Coentrão instead of Eliseu is understandable but there's no way Bruno Alves should be starting for us these days. It's just depressing looking at that defense and knowing Pepe will be gone soon
I agree with everything you say, problem is atm we don't have center backs like Ricardo Carvalho, Jorge Andrade, Fernando Couto or Jorge Costa.

The alternatives are Paulo Oliveira (rejected from Sporting now at Eibar), Vezo (not consistent in La Liga), Semedo (another rejected from Sporting who will implode at Villareal), or Edgar Ié (who will implode with Bielsa), this is the painfull truth.

Having said that, I would be playing with Paulo and Kevin Rodrigues from Real Sociedad instead Eliseu or Alves, this and the fact we need Guerreiro recovered, lets wait and see mate.
 
What's the format for qualification in Europe? Top 2 or group winner then playoff?
Winners, all 2nd place bar the worse go to playoffs. Standing among 2nd placed team is calculated based on results against all teams bar the last in the group. Playoffs are seeded based on that standing too
 
Mbappe gave it to Griezmann on a plate.