Rafiki wrote:I think it is rare that football teams get to work under perfect conditions; there's "always" a player you'd want to see on the team who is injured (for Norway's part, John Arne Riise was hospitalized after a sustaining head injury on the field the day before the match, yet his brother played one of the best matches he has played for the national team), or there are some events or conditions surrounding the team that take focus away from the match (e.g. Portugal's coaching problems, the English team's players' somewhat carefree attitude towards fidelity, not to mention the French meltdown in South Africa).
However, in the end, the match "has" to be played, the score will be counted and in this case, the end results will decide who gets to participate in Euro 2012. The NOrwegian team played a good match, and I'm looking forward to the coming matches in the Euro qualifier, both against Portugal and against Denmark (while hoping we don't lose points against Iceland and Cyprus )
I think the level of confidence of the portuguese players has reached rock bottom ... there is no other way to change this than changing the "captain of the ship"...