Comments on: Lack of plan B costs Portugal http://backpagefootball.com/lack-of-plan-b-costs-portugal/7208/ Sat, 18 May 2013 11:22:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Matthew Wood http://backpagefootball.com/lack-of-plan-b-costs-portugal/7208/comment-page-1/#comment-7826 Matthew Wood Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:24:57 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=7208#comment-7826 Navas certainly gives them balance. They are a little predictable without him.

That being said, they have too much quality for Paraguay.

]]> By: Madmax201010 http://backpagefootball.com/lack-of-plan-b-costs-portugal/7208/comment-page-1/#comment-7815 Madmax201010 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:26:15 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=7208#comment-7815 I wonder why Vincent del Bosque continues to start games without out and out wingers. It failed him against Switzerland and I thought that would be the end of this really unnecessary formation change. I get a sneaky feeling that he’s persisting with this setup in a bid to include the quarter of Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso and Busquets in the starting eleven. Surely he would have gathered from the Portugal-Brazil game that Queiroz would set out the stall and make it tight. On current form, Torres shouldn’t be starting. I haven’t got a clue why Silva didn’t play. Him and Navas should be starters when stretching a compact defence is his main concern, like it was yesterday.

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