Spain is a mature team, Ronaldo isn’t a mature player (Photo By Joey Barnley)
Spain will be playing against Portugal tomorrow and all eyes will be on Ronaldo to deliver for Portugal in the all important Euro 2012 semi final. Ronaldo has been known not to perform on the biggest of stages in football all his career so why should tomorrows night be any different?
I personally feel it will not be different contrary to what many pundits are saying, Ronaldo is likely to flop in tomorrows game and because of that Portugal will go out of the tournament.
Here the top 3 reasons why I think that will be the case tomorrow:
- Unlike the relatively weak defenses Ronaldo faced in the last match of the round robin stage and in the quarter finals, tomorrows defense is one of the best in the world if not they best in the world. Spain has got mammoth defenders with good speed and strength. Ramos will be the one who will be facing Ronaldo if all things go as planned. Sergio Ramos is probably the best right back in the world right now and he would know all of Ronaldo’stricksandflicksasheishisteammateatReal Madrid. Ronaldo would not have the same mental edge because he never really learns this aspect of the game or does he? All he does is work on his left foot, his shooting, power and pace none of the mental stuff.
- Ronaldo is going to want to prove himself against Spain. He performed well against them in the previous friendly match that they had some time ago but that was just a friendly as I mentioned before. Tomorrow’s game is a big game. Ronaldo is going to be under a lot of pressure and hence he is goingtotryfortoomuchandoutrageousallthetimeduringthematchandthatwillbehisdownfall,notbeingabletolinkupwithhisteammates.
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Really nice point you noted I appreciate you.
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damn you was spot on on everything. your a genious, you fore-see the future.
spot on dude, you were right with the ramos thing and he not being mentaly at top form for a penalty, cuz he would take the first one. Instead he wantet to take last one knowing they would loose before him taking a shot or cuz he has wantet the glory of the winning penalty.
my friend,u may be right in some ways,but i want u to known that the ronaldo of this season,had performed in all big matches including elclasico.this year is likely his.Spain are focusing all their attention on ronaldo,forgeting that their are other Portuguese player who can sink spain.I Think ronaldo wont flop 2morrow,infact nature is ready to reward him,after all his performance this season.
I want to ask you…
1) Who scored the goal scoring winner against Barcellona?
2) Who scored two goals against Bayern Munich, even though he failed a penalty later?
Something else that I don’t agree with you…
1) Portugal deserved to win against Germany.
2) Even Portugal have a strong defence, and a strong team overall.
3) Spain are playing with no strikers.
4) Spain midfielders pass only from the center, and they want to get the ball behind the goal line themselves.
5) These three guys happen to be Iniesta, Xavi and Cesc – Barcellona players, playing their Boring Barcellona tik tac game. The only difference now is that there is no Messi upfront to receive their killer pass and score.
6) Spain are not using the wings and it makes sense since their is noone in the middle. Hence close the middle and Spain are done like the Italians did.
7) Spain are yet to play against a strong team (I don’t call Ireland and France a strong team sorry), and so far we have not yet seen the real Spain.
So the question is, have we seen the best of Spain already – against Italy and Croatia? Or we still need to see more?
If we have seen the best of Spain, then Portugal have a good chance of winning especially with the counter attack.
BTW: I am Madrista and Spain fan, but I am maybe more realistic than many that are assuming that Germany vs Spain are in the final.
Cut the man some slack. He is carrying a nation on his back