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And it's absolutely deserved. Among the "small" nations, them and Austria have been the most impressive.
I would have added Albania had it not been for Seferi and every player's obsession to shoot.
It's not only his fault though. I have no idea why we were with 3-5-2. He's clearly not used to do so many compensations with Dalot being higher on the field.
It's not that he is not good, he's just overrated, very overrated.
Antonio Silva is bad, has been all season.
The reason they eventually fail abroad is the amount of propaganda used to make sure Benfica is able to sell their players.
Yes, we all know the likes of PSG, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Atl. Madrid, Barcelona, Man City and so on make the decision of which players to buy based on which players the portuguese newspapers ABola and Record decide to put on the cover. These multimillion euros organizations buy ABola every day so they can see which players are talented.
Rankings wise, by a mile
Slovakia is 48th, Belgium is 3rd.
Meanwhile Portugal is 6th, while Georgia is 75th. A whopping 69-spot difference, compared to 45 between Slovakia/Belgium
Yeah thatās not as pressing to them as it is to you in this scenario. If any Portugal player picks up a second yellow in this game to get suspended they would be shamed to no end, this game doesnāt matter.
Exactly. I've been super impressed with each of his performances. He's technically great and is capable of keeping the ball in front despite his small frame.
He was obviously right with Mikautadze but they still had Brobbey and he also bought Akpom. Three number 9s. He sold Conceicao, also playing this game, and so they had 3 strikers but no right winger. Good luck with him.
Always smart to assume people only watch the current tournament. Understandable from an Arsenal fan though, I wouldn't want to watch the league either.
England's tournament bracket is actually got even easier, incredible.
Best teams (based on tournament performance) they could face before finals: Italy, Austria, Netherlands.
I am not by any means, simply acknowledging how incredibly lucky they are with Georgia's upset making their path even easier, as they now go against Slovakia first instead of Netherlands.
After Georgia's convincing 2-0 win over Portugal, group winner Romania will play the best third-placed team, the Netherlands, on Tuesday.
Like everyone expected.
Lmao the shirt pull was soft according to some people, and this is not? Ref is favouring Georgia so much.
No var call for the shirt pull as well even though it was so blatant
This is Charmin soft. People love it cause it's in favor of an underdog but lmao anyone would be fuming to have it called against them. It's braindead by Silva but wow is it soft.
I love how the VAR said it wasnāt a penalty because he couldnāt have interfered with the ball. Of course he couldnāt be there if he was being pulled, anyone who plays sports knows it
It did get a review according to the official in contact with ITV. They deemed it not a foul because Ronaldo wasn't in a position where he could get to the ball in a meaningful way.
If it was the other way around and the penalty stopped Georgia from advancing from the groups, then we would be hearing about that in a decade still. Not that dissimilar to Robben imo
Ya and I mean by the letter of the law itās technically a foul and the right call, so they donāt have much of a choice but to give it or else that opens a whole other can of worms where youāre not giving fouls because they are ātoo softā. Just sucks, was never the intention of the rule.
Do you remember the outrage when Sterling won that penalty at the last euros by going down under contact by [two](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YYZXZdve2zw) defenders?
People were so outraged that [the Prem promised](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/02/var-set-to-end-premier-league-players-buying-a-penalty-next-season) to stop penalties like that, saying "itās not sufficient just to say: āYes, thereās contact.ā"
But we've gone so far in the other direction since. People seem so accepting of the most minor contact being a penalty just because the attacker decided to fall over afterwards.
Barely touching someone's shoelaces? Celear and obvious penalty. Pulling someone's shirt for 5sec? Yellow to the other guy, should've just let him have the shirt.
Lmao thatās a pen, okay, but the Ronaldo shirt pull one where there was more contact is not. And that ref didnāt even go to VAR. Where is the consistency??
So, this bloke Antonio Silvaās misplaced pass caused the first goal; obstructed Ronaldoās header at the near post; and now gives away a penaltyā¦not bad
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greatest night in Georgian football history loading
No one here is gonna be sleeping tonight too busy celebrating
Fuck it im celebrating and im from norway
I can hear the fucking fireworks whistles and screams in the streets
Go out and enjoy the party my friend.
Haha, same! Sakartveloš¬šŖš¬šŖš¬šŖ!!
greatest night so far
The scenes if they wind up making through to the Round of 16 EDIT: THEY DID IT
Downtown Atlanta is gonna be lit
You joke but one of Atlanta United's star players plays for the Georgian National Team. Downtown Atlanta is gonna be lit.
They're too busy preparing for tomorrow's US game against Panama in the Copa.
*Georgia Tech has left the chat*
Is it okay if we do accents sugar?
Troy! Georgia the country, not the state!
that's right. capital city Tbilisi, and former member of the Soviet Union. and we kindly request y'all mind your Ps and Qs.
And it's absolutely deserved. Among the "small" nations, them and Austria have been the most impressive. I would have added Albania had it not been for Seferi and every player's obsession to shoot.
They beat Luxembourg a few months ago.
***Sir, a second Georgian goal has hit the net***
"Game's back"
SEC > Portugal
That mean Bama and Texas are better than Portugal?
Chick Fil A officially a European past-time. RIP USA
Portugal invading Georgia not the war I ever saw coming
r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT/
S-E-C S-E-C S-E-CĀ
Smdh Portugal can't even beat one us state
Them SEC boys built different.
Confirmation that Atlanta United is better than Portugal?
Time to bark at some Ronaldo fanboys!
Coup in Bolivia, Georgia winning against Portugal, Micro plastic in my balls, what a time to be alive!
Sir, I think we have to resort to nuclear actions.
Wtf is happening this Euros
They want to play Slovenia instead of Netherlands . Simple
England facing Slovakia in the R16 then
I was going to say Iād prefer them over Netherlands but my confidence is low regardless
Slovakia will sit back and defend, Netherlands wouldn't. Would prefer to play Netherlands
England v Netherlands, the two worst coaches so far at this Euros. Absolute shit.
Belgium says hello
Cant we have a 3-team-match for the lols?
Don't forget Roberto Martinez
Feels like every big nation have a shit manager (apart from Germany, Spain and France)
Add Deschamps as the 3rd musketeer
Nah, Deschamps is miles ahead. Heās basically Southgate philosophy wise, but heās better at literally everything. Also he has a world cup
France always come alive in the knockouts under him too
lol throwing in a WC winner and finalist in there like that
Iām conflicted if I prefer us (NL) to play England or Romania at this point.
If we lose to Romania at least were certain of Koeman being fired.
Dont kid yourself, my friend. You know Koeman aint going nowhere. Netherlands are stuck with him for eternity.
Iceland round two
FFS Snoozegateterror will go into QF ššš
Snooze gate terror will win the whole fucking thing
Then thereās probably Switzerland and then Turkey and theyāre in the final!
I could see Switzerland and or Italy shithouse their way to a QF victory over England.
Iceland 2.0?
Southgate masterclass.
Georgia 0 Portugal 0 Antonio Silva -2
Georgia 2 - 0 AntĆ³nio Silva
More like Antonio Silva 2 - 0 Portugal
Georgia about to make the man a statue lmao. But nah, Kvaratskhelia was clinical. Happy for them tbh
I can't wait to never see him play for Portugal again!
Bro typed so furiously he had a grammatical breakdown.
AntĆ³nio Silva 2 - 0 Roberto Martinez
Antonio Silva is about to be the most hated man in Portugal and Hungary right now
No way man start again
He already is
It's not only his fault though. I have no idea why we were with 3-5-2. He's clearly not used to do so many compensations with Dalot being higher on the field.
And there is a reason you usually don't replace your entire team from one game to the next. He did have an absolute stinker though.
Well, he's bad. He has nothing other than the Benfica propaganda machine. Much like Felix.
Do Portuguese fans really think Felix is not good?
Do non-Portuguese fans think FĆ©lix is good?
Nobody does
It's not that he is not good, he's just overrated, very overrated. Antonio Silva is bad, has been all season. The reason they eventually fail abroad is the amount of propaganda used to make sure Benfica is able to sell their players.
Yes, we all know the likes of PSG, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Atl. Madrid, Barcelona, Man City and so on make the decision of which players to buy based on which players the portuguese newspapers ABola and Record decide to put on the cover. These multimillion euros organizations buy ABola every day so they can see which players are talented.
That actually sounds like more research than Chelsea do for their transfers.
these Euros keep delivering
Worst-ranked team in the Euros has a 2-0 lead on Portugal. Just like we all predicted
Austria losing to France but topping the group
>Worst-ranked team in the Euros has a 2-0 lead on Portugal. As a greek I've seen this before
Stop š
Letās make him cry on his last euro too.
Wait. Will this pass Belgium vs Slovakia as the biggest Euros upset ever?
Rankings wise, by a mile Slovakia is 48th, Belgium is 3rd. Meanwhile Portugal is 6th, while Georgia is 75th. A whopping 69-spot difference, compared to 45 between Slovakia/Belgium
Thats mental. Lovely as well since im in a Belgium shirt rn and was already doubting my life choices
Nice
nice
by a mile
I believe so
It has to surely
Yup almost double
I guess, but Portugal are already first and are playing with reserves
I mean yeah but why should the stats care
Tbf Portugal gains/loses absolutely nothing from this outcome, I have to imagine theyāre not playing it at the same intensity.
Nevertheless we lose Pride and dignity
Yeah thatās not as pressing to them as it is to you in this scenario. If any Portugal player picks up a second yellow in this game to get suspended they would be shamed to no end, this game doesnāt matter.
thank god i couldn't take another day of 0-0s across the board
Barring group C
factos
I canāt wait for the saltiness and toxicity that the RO16 is gonna provide for us
Antonio is done for
Bro?
Fuckin' Antonio
He's been an absolute revelation this Euros.
People will see two penalties but his overall game is very very good
Exactly. I've been super impressed with each of his performances. He's technically great and is capable of keeping the ball in front despite his small frame.
To be fair, scoring two penalties is not easy. I should know, I'm a Croatian...
Absolutely love how Ajax wasted him.
Seeing multiple (ex) Ajax players playing well this tournament hurts lol.
Out of curiosity, was he a Mislintat signing?
He was obviously right with Mikautadze but they still had Brobbey and he also bought Akpom. Three number 9s. He sold Conceicao, also playing this game, and so they had 3 strikers but no right winger. Good luck with him.
If I remember correctly, yes.
Antonio Silva having a proper stinker this match. The worst performance from a Portuguese player in this group stage uncontested.
I bet he won't forget that game for the rest of his life. First time he was part of the main squad. 2 mistakes 2 goals because of him
Benfica told us Antonio Silva was the next golden boy. Seems like complete shit to me.
He needs the Veerman treatment
To late, its the 2nd half already.
benfica and their golden boys huh
Mendes downvoted this
They said the same about Ferro.
He did great when he first got to the first team. And really, really young. This season he was awful, many times. He's only 20 still, time will tell
always smart to make your mind up on a player over a single 60minute period
Always smart to assume people only watch the current tournament. Understandable from an Arsenal fan though, I wouldn't want to watch the league either.
He did this shit in the league too
I love his toxic griddy glasses
England's tournament bracket is actually got even easier, incredible. Best teams (based on tournament performance) they could face before finals: Italy, Austria, Netherlands.
you're saying it like England is capable of beating any of these countries in their current state
I am not by any means, simply acknowledging how incredibly lucky they are with Georgia's upset making their path even easier, as they now go against Slovakia first instead of Netherlands.
Theyāre alright they just need to score as late as possible to not sit back and concede the equaliser.
After Georgia's convincing 2-0 win over Portugal, group winner Romania will play the best third-placed team, the Netherlands, on Tuesday. Like everyone expected.
AntĆ³nio Silva what the fuck are you doing
You either sub Antonio Silva off or he will be worth 0 by the end of tournament
Antonio Silva is fucking trash.
People wondered why Pepe is still playing at 41, this is why lol
Thanks captain
We know but youāre gonna enrage a certain group.
Lmao the shirt pull was soft according to some people, and this is not? Ref is favouring Georgia so much. No var call for the shirt pull as well even though it was so blatant
This is Charmin soft. People love it cause it's in favor of an underdog but lmao anyone would be fuming to have it called against them. It's braindead by Silva but wow is it soft.
It's exactly what I was thinking too and I don't even like Ronaldo. Portugal got the short end of the stick with some abysmal refereeing.
Guys I am the biggest Georgia fan out there tonight like everyone else but Portugal is getting absolutely robbed tonight lmao
I guess Hungary is fucked now
I dont get VAR, if they can review this why not the Ronaldo one? This is why players dive
So I guess VAR is working after all?
Tapped his shoelace and he went flying
Scratched an aglet. That brute.
Sure that's a pen. But so was Ronaldo's shirt being pulled
How often are those actually awarded?
Not often enough if we're all being fair. It's like penalties are only awarded for shirt pulling when the shirt gets pulled off the player.Ā
I love how the VAR said it wasnāt a penalty because he couldnāt have interfered with the ball. Of course he couldnāt be there if he was being pulled, anyone who plays sports knows it
> anyone who plays sports so not the Var team lmao
Funny how this one got a VAR review while the foul on Ronaldo didn't hehe
Every potential penalty gets looked at by VAR.
Well that makes it even worse then
Clearly some get more *in-depth* looks
It did get a review according to the official in contact with ITV. They deemed it not a foul because Ronaldo wasn't in a position where he could get to the ball in a meaningful way.
Fucking bullshit. So any random defender can foul any attacker that isn't near ball the box?
So you're allowed to foul as much as you want off the ball by this logic
If that's really their reason they need to read the fucking rulebook.
By their logic Zidane shouldnāt have been sent off in the 2006 final
Wait WHAT? This is *explicitly* against the rules.
Ref has been terrible
Ref hates portugal lmao
Lol how the fuck is this not a dive?
ETS GOOOO
Romania facing Netherlands now. Congrats to Georgia!
tickled his foot there
If it was the other way around and the penalty stopped Georgia from advancing from the groups, then we would be hearing about that in a decade still. Not that dissimilar to Robben imo
God, I like VAR overall but this is the shit is just so annoying Thatās so fucking soft
As soon as they zoomed in and froze on the shoelace you just knew this dumb shit was going to be given
Ya and I mean by the letter of the law itās technically a foul and the right call, so they donāt have much of a choice but to give it or else that opens a whole other can of worms where youāre not giving fouls because they are ātoo softā. Just sucks, was never the intention of the rule.
want Georgia to win but thatās never a pen, really minimal contact
I really hate this exact kind of situation being rewarded
Do you remember the outrage when Sterling won that penalty at the last euros by going down under contact by [two](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YYZXZdve2zw) defenders? People were so outraged that [the Prem promised](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/02/var-set-to-end-premier-league-players-buying-a-penalty-next-season) to stop penalties like that, saying "itās not sufficient just to say: āYes, thereās contact.ā" But we've gone so far in the other direction since. People seem so accepting of the most minor contact being a penalty just because the attacker decided to fall over afterwards.
Let's call it what it is: a dive. The defender barely grazed him with the end of his toe.
Meanwhile Portugal gets 3 yellows in 3 matches for dives. The ref even had a smile blowing his whistle.
Yeah it's a horrible call from VAR for me. Contact yes, but clear and obvious error? Surely not.
Barely touching someone's shoelaces? Celear and obvious penalty. Pulling someone's shirt for 5sec? Yellow to the other guy, should've just let him have the shirt.
Surprised ref gave that. Could see it maybe given but doesnāt seem clear enough to overturn the infield decision
Meh as someone pulling for Georgia Ronaldoās shout was much more of a penalty
This referee just fucking hate Portugal lmao Every 50/50 call is against them.
The ref immediately said no penalty and told the player to get up, so I'm not sure that makes sense. Maybe the VAR team does
Bro does NOT like Hungary
He didnāt give it initially?
lil bro he literally not give the penalty initially
Weak call but the ref has been favouring Georgia all game.
My friend told me before the game that Antonio Silva was the next big thing, i threw him out.. he is shit
Lmao thatās a pen, okay, but the Ronaldo shirt pull one where there was more contact is not. And that ref didnāt even go to VAR. Where is the consistency??
If the exact same foul happened on Cristiano, 100% the ref gives him a second yellow for "diving"
If that was the other way around, yellow for dive, no VAR review. Portuguese players have been getting nothing this game.....
Rigged
I dont like that for a pen tbf. It's SO weak. But also LETS GO GEORGIA
willy sagnol ball?
THEY COULD ACTUALLY DO IT
That's Khachapuri for the breakfast sorted
So VAR gets called to check this but not the shirt pull? Interesting
So, this bloke Antonio Silvaās misplaced pass caused the first goal; obstructed Ronaldoās header at the near post; and now gives away a penaltyā¦not bad
Ronaldo gets booked for a blatant pen and then THIS is a pen ? Cmon man this is outrageous
Never a pen in a million years
Loves Benfica so much that heās doing his best for Rui Costa not to sell him
If that's a penalty, ronaldo should have had one too no?????