Quite disappointing game by Portugal. We need a Deco in top shape to really claim to have a good playmaker. Without him, Cristiano Ronaldo looks helpless and our forward line pretty much without good quality balls.
Ivory Coast did neutralize some of our best players, but we should have been able to come up with some kind of plan B. We tried a little bit close to the end with direct balls to the Ivorian area, but there was no Hugo Almeida to head them. Liedson was pretty much nonexistent.
Our coach also is soooo not ambitious. Why did he let Ruben Amorim in?? We should have put a forward more or at least replace Liedson since we was doing nothing there. He was happy with the tie?
