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Throughout Heaven & Earth,I alone am d Honored One
If you guys manage to win, it would be a big surprise.
It won't be that big of a surprise. Australia is a decent team.

They lost to England, Argentina, and Mexico but goal difference was generally 1.

Head to head, US won 2 times and Australia won 1 time and all matches were close.

US playing at home is the difference.
 

K!NG HARA$H!MA

Hustlerversity Graduate
As a Arsenal fan, Henry always got beef with Ronaldo since MAN U - Arsenal Days.


It's deeply personal.


Henry as pundit have been heavily biased against Ronaldo for a decade now


He's letting his personal beef clouding his judgement as pundit. Very unprofessional
 

Reborn

Throughout Heaven & Earth,I alone am d Honored One
As a Arsenal fan, Henry always got beef with Ronaldo since MAN U - Arsenal Days.


It's deeply personal.


Henry as pundit have been heavily biased against Ronaldo for a decade now


He's letting his personal beef clouding his judgement as pundit. Very unprofessional
Not really


This is the heat map of their last games.

You can clearly see the stark difference between their play, participation and movements.


Yellow means - low to moderate concentration of movements

Orange means - high concentration of movement.

For Ronaldo the brightest concentration is right in front of the the goal keeper of opposition followed by on the left side.

While Messi was everywhere. He even fall back to defend near his own box
 

K!NG HARA$H!MA

Hustlerversity Graduate
Not really


This is the heat map of their last games.

You can clearly see the stark difference between their play, participation and movements.


Yellow means - low to moderate concentration of movements

Orange means - high concentration of movement.

For Ronaldo the brightest concentration is right in front of the the goal keeper of opposition followed by on the left side.

While Messi was everywhere. He even fall back to defend near his own box
It doesn't change the fact that Henry has bias against Ronaldo
 
To be fair someone needs to speak with Ronaldo one to one and tell him his days are over . Ronaldo doesn't accept he is washed , his peak left during Juventus days .
The problem is that nearly all Portuguese players still see Ronaldo as a role model and national idol.
There is frustration ofc when he walks over somebody else's chances like with Bruno this game. But they still use him and his achievements as a measuring stick for themselves. Like it or not he is their biggest legend and a player nearly all of them grew up watching.
The people that could MAYBE knock some sense into him are his former peers/legends that were there when he started out in the NT - Figo, Pauleta, Pepe etc
But the only real difference maker is Ronaldo himself. And as long there's something left to prove he won't stop trying, for better or worse.

However, it needs to be said and underlined that Portugal's problems don't boil down to Ronaldo bad at all. Roberto Martinez is a known trash manager who already ruined one golden generation of players in another country. Portugal's whole game after the first goal became a let's-get-it-over-with ordeal with no vision behind it
 
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