Oh, and there's this (excuse the layout):
TILASTOT / STATISTICS
1. puoliaika / 1st half 2. puoliaika / 2nd half
FIN POR FIN POR
Goals 1 1 0 0
Attempts on goal 1 4 2 0
Attempts on woodwork 0 0 0 0
Attempts wide 3 5 4 2
Corners 2 3 3 1
Free kicks 8 13 9 12
Offsides 1 2 2 1
Yellow cards 1 1 2 1
Red cards 0 0 0 1
Which tends to bear out the theory that Portugal did not actually trouble Jääskeläinen overmuch in the second half. And lends the lie to the rather stupid BBC remark that Ricardo produced a string of saves to deny the Finns.
http://www.palloliitto.fi/mp/db/file_li ... IN-POR.rtf
Finland-Portugal
This is an amusing interpretation of what happened on Wednesday. Anyone who watched can spot at least two glaring errors. I suspect the writer was in Armenia at the time, and radio reception was a bit crackly.
http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/ ... 80,00.html
Poor old Miguel! Not even selected and he got sent off! You gotta love the Internet. Still, Kolkka takes free-kicks (?) and Ronaldo hit the woodwork... errr... well, he hit the deck quite often, anyway.
http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/ ... 80,00.html
Poor old Miguel! Not even selected and he got sent off! You gotta love the Internet. Still, Kolkka takes free-kicks (?) and Ronaldo hit the woodwork... errr... well, he hit the deck quite often, anyway.
Given the amount of times he bangs them chances in for the Pool, I thought he could have had a hat trick. IMOsinikettu wrote:That is bit OTT at least two of his headers were saved by some world class goalkeeping....he was on target..hardly clasifies as a misssimon wrote:From the highlights I saw on the news this morning it seems that Hyppia should of had a hat trick the amount of headers he missed.
Hesa seems to agree with me..
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Europe ... 5221465207
Sami Hyypiä twice went close with headers inside the first ten minutes, from a flighted Jari Litmanen free-kick and a corner.
Both times the Liverpool centre-back seemed to make acres of space to work with. On the second occasion he was only denied by an acrobatic save from Ricardo in the Portuguese goal.
At least, it was clear to me that the finnish coaching was way better than the portuguese coaching.
That's good news for Finland, who has always complained that they have rather good players, who under-perform in the national team. They scored a lot against Poland, once against Portugal, they were well organized for defending, I'd say that they really have very good chances to end-up at least 2nd in their group, which would mean qualifications for Euro 2008, wou hou. They could even do a "Greece", and go far with a well organized defending team, waiting for just the best opportunities of launching a counter-attack.
On the Portuguese side, they can still wonder how they managed not to win when they have huge players such as Deco, Ronaldo, Gomes, etc. By looking at the smiles at Ronaldo when he was missing the target, I'd suspect the coach to be too nice with his gifted players.
/Paul
That's good news for Finland, who has always complained that they have rather good players, who under-perform in the national team. They scored a lot against Poland, once against Portugal, they were well organized for defending, I'd say that they really have very good chances to end-up at least 2nd in their group, which would mean qualifications for Euro 2008, wou hou. They could even do a "Greece", and go far with a well organized defending team, waiting for just the best opportunities of launching a counter-attack.
On the Portuguese side, they can still wonder how they managed not to win when they have huge players such as Deco, Ronaldo, Gomes, etc. By looking at the smiles at Ronaldo when he was missing the target, I'd suspect the coach to be too nice with his gifted players.
/Paul
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