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[bret- hart]

CR9 is a beast. Top class performance As for Egypt, would not surprise me if they choked despite being in a cake group.

[kastro11]

Portugal had a legit goal disallowed in the first half.

It was not legit as there was a clear offside from the initial header.

We need Karim Hafez back asap as Abdel-Shafy should no longer be an option. I agree with your assessment on Shikabala. Not only did he not close his man down - his lazy pass led to the turn of possession in the first place.

[Heliopolis]

Portugal had a legit goal disallowed in the first half.

It was not legit as there was a clear offside from the initial header.

We need Karim Hafez back asap as Abdel-Shafy should no longer be an option. I agree with your assessment on Shikabala. Not only did he not close his man down - his lazy pass led to the turn of possession in the first place.

Fathi is a liability as well. So too is Shennawy. He was very clumsy and did some things you don't see quality GKs do.

Overall we have a lot of weak spots but my hope is that Cuper has us playing a defensive counter-attack style. I know that Egyptians yearn for us to play an attacking style but we don't have enough talent to do so. The rest of our attackers were garbage today. There was that one play in the 2nd half where Trezeguet had the ball with 2 attackers to his right hand side just outside the box and he made a mess of it. Then you had a bunch of heavy touches and poor passes in the final third, not to mention all the terrible crosses. Its not like 2006-2010 when we had 3-4 players on the pitch at the same time that could score (e.g., Zidan, Aboutreika, Zaki, Ahmed Hassan, etc). Now all we have is Salah.

We need to just play disciplined boring soccer and squeeze out some 1-0 wins come June.

[Damunk]

Wawu!
Honourable Africans France beaten 3-2 by Colombia!

[Cristao II]

Top goalscorers in international football
Ali Daei (Iran) - 109 goals
Ferenc Puskas (Hungary) - 84
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) - 81
Kunishige Kamamoto (Japan) - 80
Godfrey Chitalu (Zambia) - 79