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00:00for you to make your point again because he's run well off laminio mal
00:04he hadn't gone with him maybe that's the tactic
00:09leave it to the defenders he's going to leave it yet to pedro porro
00:14it's quite an attacking player himself
00:23hibasi with the braveness of his really dragging the ball back in his own penalty area and
00:28clicking it forward
00:32here's bruna fernandes one of a legion of star players
00:37it's been so much about cristiano ronaldo
00:40bruna hasn't really made the headlines he's finished a fabulous season with
00:43manchester united football review that's the football writers the pfa player of the year
00:55right heads away
00:59isabal scored the very late winning goal in that european final against england
01:06danny olmo
01:08with lots of room
01:15orro
01:16homo again
01:22so important and you've been through this to get your touches in early to feel that you're part of the
01:28game oh definitely you want to take part in these matches mark and you don't want to let it all
01:32skip
01:33past you and that can happen sometimes it really can as hard as you try and you want to
01:39get amongst it all the game seems to operate down the other side of the field or in other areas
01:45and just can't seem to get involved enough
01:50patina
01:55nato vega playing it back to his goalkeeper he was the player who inadvertently touched the ball
02:03which meant the offside call was correct the croatian stop croatia equalizing right at the very end
02:12and here come portugal looking to strike the first blow here
02:18well the drive from ciao cancello
02:22claim the keeper touched it i think the officials have gone on with that that's very positive yeah
02:26he's another one that likes to gallop charge forward into particularly if there's space in front of him
02:32he'll cancel it will eat it up literally
02:38probably i'm sure we've got we've got a game where we've got
02:41four more attack minded fullbacks than what we've got on on view here this evening
02:50they fought by kubasi down by vega she does play in spain with via real
03:00a lot of clubs for one so young proudly boasted he speaks seven different languages
03:06which is a fantastic life skill in itself let alone this football
03:14there he is
03:21sort it out by rotary cafeteria and here's danny olmo and the flag has stayed down
03:30doesn't go up oh yes arbol the man in form
03:36wondering quite how he spurned this chance it's brilliant football the one touch stuff there danny
03:43no more right in that number 10 position the first time released to a israel is absolutely
03:49inch perfect on his left foot all he had to do is look at the goalie and hit the target
03:54he's actually
03:54well wide of the target that's a poor poor strike really from someone that's been amongst the goals
04:00and has looked very reliable in that sort of situation that's a big moment
04:07that's the first header drop for ronaldo what's he got
04:14look at shimmy passed by vitinia
04:18it's forcing the ciao felix a bit wider than he might have been
04:24in the team having been left out for the croatia game it's a smart pass
04:30it's gone out or a point yeah clever ball that outside of his boot joe felix
04:40you probably see that a lot from him where he sort of stop in front of pedro porro he's not
04:45a
04:45flying machine in that area joe felix but very very talented and has great awareness of a
04:51of a teammate running into a good position
04:59bernard fernandez lining up the corner the taylor is well used to dealing with pushing and shoving
05:08in by the premier league is laid out at set pieces these days but now they're trying to get free
05:14he's
05:14being tugged back actually
05:21and it was pedronetto had a swing at that yeah it was rodri that was marking cristiano ronaldo
05:27and i tried to work a little block
05:34here is rodri
05:44ronato vega
05:48tinia who will read any interviews that he's given he'll tell you how massive doubts he had that he
05:54would ever make it as a top player what a player has become paris saint-germain portugal
06:03no great faith but luis enrique they were together he really got
06:10self-confidence into a player who now plays as though he believes he runs the world yeah he's been
06:16outstanding for his club bsg been at the heart of their success over the last couple of seasons
06:24well sir luis enrique was the uh coach of spain at the last world cup and didn't do very well
06:29he's
06:29admitted that they lost to morocco
06:35watch this here this is that little block martin watch he tries to see that they're just
06:39clattering to joe neves deliberately so as ronaldo can just try and be a bit elusive
06:46as far as rodri is concerned but kind of grabbed hold of him a little bit but as ever
06:50got away with it there's a lot of that goes on in the modern game an awful lot
06:56here is ronaldo he works the goalkeeper from a tight angle
07:05yeah it's going to take a lot to beat unai simon from that sort of angle i
07:08wondered if he could have hit this first time could have done he decided to have the touch and then
07:14do
07:14the little step over but it just might have made the the shot in the end that little bit harder
07:20to
07:20execute however first job was done there hit the target make the goalkeeper save it
07:26for sure looking to be the first team to score against spain here in usa 2026
07:34and that blocking
07:37will continue as luna mendez
07:41lines up the corner drills it hook flat
07:52the small of the two nations in terms of population
07:57and space are trying to be the bigger here on the football field and the ulmo yeah and i think
08:05martin
08:06these two teams because they have got so many talented players that know each other i think
08:10they're going to have these little spells both teams where they feel like they're getting on top and then
08:14very quickly it can change it's pedric
08:21coming inside and leaving actually space for pedro poro down the right-hand side but
08:29i'm in the opposite direction to cook area
08:32it's just left his english club chelsea for real madrid
08:38coming back home
09:02it's a little bit of the the urgency alex bayernet who's had a good tournament
09:14really stepped up got himself a starting berth
09:33and out by pedro poro
09:38good career maybe thought the goalkeeper was coming he did just for a split second i thought the goalie
09:44was going to come and sort that himself just quickly had to make sure that we tidied it up
09:54that one of the chapters and they were going to get together
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10:32It's Pedro Porro.
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10:39Only six Portugal wins.
10:42In the World Cup.
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10:46And that three.
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39:21it's pedronetto
39:23a tina
39:24a number of these players were playing in the states last year
39:28with their club sides
39:30pedronetto had a great tournament in the club world cup
39:32he scored three goals
39:34chelsea won it
39:40luna mendez
39:42luna mendez
39:44luna mendez
39:45who i'm sure has been briefed about what he's going to do
39:49and rather
39:50well doing what he nearly accomplished
39:52a couple of minutes ago that should be the goalkeeper's
39:54ball and it is
39:56competent
40:01yeah nice work
40:02neat and tidy nice and clean with the catch
40:05ronaldo just hovering a little
40:07bit in behind luna mendez
40:08but good work
40:20pedro poro
40:23spain
40:24threatening
40:25but portcourt not without
40:27sign or two of a punch of their own
40:29here's
40:31baena
40:32bucuria
40:36laporte takes over
40:42or danny almost found space again
40:44and found
40:45hoya zaval
40:48couldn't quite switch it
40:50and then
40:51a hit and hope really from rogerie
40:54yeah
40:55six added minutes
40:57before half time
41:02yeah there's a fan on the receiving end of that one from rogerie
41:06i think you can see danny olmo on the right side of the screen there saying let's keep the ball
41:13always tempting martin midfield players when you're in that shooting range
41:16and then it's afterwards you either
41:20well you often regret that perhaps you didn't just go wide and keep the pressure on
41:24just relieves all the pressure when you blast it over the bar
41:27i saw you blast plenty into the opponent's net by the way
41:32i can tell you there was a good few that went over the top as well
41:35i did see some of those too
41:45yeah neves
41:48and ronaldo makes the run
41:51farting out in time was in i simon
41:53spain trying to act quickly from the goalkeepers distribution but portugal get back very quickly
42:05i'll explain it
42:17patrick porro play it inside nuno mendes from the minimal he did just that but it was offside it
42:23wouldn't have counted
42:26good movement from him though
42:28nothing he's got to mix it up with against nuno mendes look
42:32decides to just dart in behind once you make that decision you can't wait
42:36i don't think pedro porra did a lot wrong there he's just always
42:40a little too early and going to be offside but
42:43that's better from him he can have it to feet but also skipping behind occasionally
42:49spain you sense
42:51really looking to up it before the break here
42:54what a free kick
43:05not a great angle for the challenge
43:08no
43:13it's a long way out this one martin an awful long way out
43:16i mean we have seen him over the years
43:20previous world cups we've seen them fly in from this sort of range but
43:23that's a long way that's a nice banner isn't it
43:25legend versus the future
43:27ronaldo versus lamin
43:32yes but it is a ball that stays hit we've emphasized that plenty of times we've seen
43:36some wonderful goals struck from outside the penalty area
43:41plenty of headers as well
43:45might be more the latter route to an opening goal here
43:54and that was actually on target
43:58maybe there was an offside on the initial knockback
44:07well the game's gone pretty much according to plan hasn't it it's very tight
44:10it really is the first goal in this one is going to be
44:15huge for whichever team is able to find it but
44:19they both had their moments i think it could could have been tighter couldn't it i mean
44:24yeah i was telling andy before the game a very good friend in portuguese football said
44:30be prepared for a long game and hinting that there would be a lot of caution involved
44:39there's been sensible defensive play but
44:44creativity hasn't been off the menu
44:56and we're done by nuna mendez
45:00char neves
45:04there's another of the harry san jimano players involved in this game
45:10now felix was a nice idea just to reverse it back
45:16it's got too much on it
45:28be doing that fetching and carrying and passing responsibility in the ball to others
45:44it's been going nowhere on that passage of play
45:47yeah it's getting too deep there oh yes i will get involved in areas where he doesn't really want to
45:51be
45:52doing that he's really uh
45:58in a late developer they played him through the middle of his club and now for his country and
46:03running through the middle here at the other end is
46:06how felix
46:09we've never really settled in one club but oh is our was only played for one club well associate that
46:14whereas um as petro cora goes
46:20careering across
46:23which how felix has been around the block a few times yes yes he has not settled never really
46:30never really stuck it out for a significant period of time anywhere
46:35but he's talented he's a very talented boy and he can play in a number of positions he can play
46:40as a 10 he's playing off one side it's not ideal for him today but both teams martin have got
46:47some
46:47good players on the bench you know who can have a big effect in this game too it might come
46:51to that
46:52it might well come to whichever manager is brave enough to to make those changes first that could be
46:59the difference well at half time there has been many efforts and luna mendes shot deflecting onto
47:08the crossbar the closest we've seen diogo costas had to make some saves probably more saves than his
47:13opposite number but one or two of them have been routine and we reach the break in dallas portugal nil
47:22spain nil
47:32say hi to the lees and their newest family member the kia ev5 gordon has a lot to do
47:38and appreciates looking great while doing it and sophia is sporty very sporty when she's not on the field
47:48she's gaming on it yes all five get what they want in the ev5 and a little more
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