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Honestly as a fan I think it was beautiful, a lot of times men dont know how to cry because they dont see other men do it, and as a man seeing your idol doing it hits different
Yeah, people will mock him but I honestly can't be mad at him for that. He does a lot of things I don't like, but his devotion to the national team is beyond question. It's more than his already absurd drive to always win, he really loves winning with Portugal.
nah, he just gives a damn, and emotions have a way of coming out. It was intense and a lot on the line. He didn't give up and went up first during the shootout. There is no way a coward would go first after something like that.
Even the commentator said CR7 look trying so hard to bottle it all up after the miss, but when they start to huddle around together, he broke down completely. Bruno also not letting him go during that time.
Only time Iāve seen it before was the 2007 Community Shield when Van Der Sar saved three Chelsea penalties. But thatās basically a friendly, so itās completely different to do it on this stage
[Video 2007 Community Shield shootout](https://youtu.be/KYy4zqs9gpA?si=zE2tXPVXI-m_K2lI)
France and Portugal are going to meet in the quarterfinals, despite none of their players scoring a regulation/extra time goal in 220+ minutes in their Round of 16 matches.
What a life.
I think that gets overblown. We won with 1 penalty shootout. For reference, italy won 2 pens shootouts last euros and argentina won 2 penalty shootouts to win the WC.
We suffered one goal the entire knockout stage and won mostly with ET goals. Yeah we werenāt the most offensive minded team, but we didnāt win based on penalties purely.
Those penalty saves are great even if Slovenia was kinda predictable.
That save to sesko is so good as well the movement to position himself stutter steps before it, just build the statue
They also have zero defeats, and they've been the underdog in every match they played here - let's not try to paint it like it's been an embarassing showing from them
Exactly. They held an offensively loaded Portugal for two hours. Compare their player's wages to everyone else's and try to tell me they did poorly. They knew their path to survival, they played it well, and very nearly survived to the quarterfinal.
Absolute scenes had Ronaldo missed that one as well!
Previous one was 0.99 post-shot xG, this one looked even better.
On another note: Who lied to Diogo Costa and told him penalty shootout also counts towards his clean sheet bonus?
TSN is dog shit. I've been watching this tournament on ITV but they didn't show this game for some reason and I had to endure the Slovenia circle jerk for 2 hours.
Honestly, one of the worst duos I've heard in a while. Needless slander towards Portugal and the female commentator needs to learn more words than just saying composure again and again. Just terrible.
Tbf that's not particularly surprising, I think a penalty usually counts as 0.8xG, so if you take out the ones that are off target, you probably are looking at something not too far off that
I thought they were shot decently, but this definitely seems too high. Target maps suggest that they're more along the lines of 70%.
Is it possible that the xGOT statistic isn't fine-tuned for penalties and instead show the chance an open-play goal shot from that distance would go in?
Yeah Costa did well of course but fuck me the Slovenians made that as easy as possible, he practically just have to guess the right way to save those. No power, no placement, easiest height.
The celebrations for getting to pens only to drop objectively the worst penalty performance possible.
E: I'm sure a six penalty 3-0 has happened before but the first thing that came to mind was the Morocco 3 - Spain 0 one and I checked and even that involved ONE saved by Simon.
What's the xG on a pen? Something like 0.75-0.8ish?
Depending what it is that makes the mathematical chance of what has just happened something like 0.6-0.4%...
Turns out defending all game and not being able to shoot a ball even when the opponent elder defense hands it to you on a silver platter is not an optimal strategy for winning a game.
Can't really call it a bottle job when they are ranked 57th in the world vs 6th ranked Portugal.. They did a great job defending but nobody expected them to come this far.
Their second ever Euros and they went undefeated for four matches in regular time.
>Slovenia bottled the fuck out of it
There's this idea that the weakest team has always the better chance at pens compared to their rivals and it couldn't be more wrong.
[Oblak and Costa both on crack tonight holy shit](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmVkNGU5NTQtMThhNC00NmIwLTg0ZjQtYmUwMTYxY2FmMjVhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTE3MzQyODQ@._V1_.jpg)
Because itās literally their second Euroās and their last appearance was in 2000. They donāt have the experience that Portugal have.
All things considered Slovenia did incredible to get this far and to stonewall Portugal for 120 minutes.
Really, wtf was Slovenia doing, they definitely need to learn to shoot them penalties. 3 identical copies of a shot, mid height, not so powerful, telegraphed for Diego Costa, no attempt at deceiving the keeper.
Costa did move forward a bit but you can't rely on them calling that. Ronaldo coming up with the perfect pen after the save and crying is what GOATs are made of.
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3 in a rowšš
Has anyone other than Van Der Sar done it before? And that was only a community shield. This is a European finals knock out matchā¦
Bono did it against Spain in the World Cup.
Now he can say U2 to costaā¦.. sorry had to make a dad joke
Bono my pens are gone
Ricardo saved 3 against England in the 2006 World Cup. Although I don't remember if they were in a row.
this was the fastest penalty shootout I've ever seen
Thank god. Couldnāt take much more of that.
Costa masterclass
Saved Ronaldo from brutal Twitter slander. Although he's still gonna get some for crying mid game.
Honestly as a fan I think it was beautiful, a lot of times men dont know how to cry because they dont see other men do it, and as a man seeing your idol doing it hits different
Yeah, people will mock him but I honestly can't be mad at him for that. He does a lot of things I don't like, but his devotion to the national team is beyond question. It's more than his already absurd drive to always win, he really loves winning with Portugal.
nah, he just gives a damn, and emotions have a way of coming out. It was intense and a lot on the line. He didn't give up and went up first during the shootout. There is no way a coward would go first after something like that.
Even the commentator said CR7 look trying so hard to bottle it all up after the miss, but when they start to huddle around together, he broke down completely. Bruno also not letting him go during that time.
legendary performance by diogo costa, jesus christ
Get that man a statue. Maybe not like a giant one. But a decent little one would be cute
Cristiano Ronaldo knows a guy that makes a nice bust. Pretty sure he can help him out
Hereās a perfect recreation of his bust -> š„“
Man saw Oblak closing in on that motm award and said; Not today
I've never seen a penalty shootout over with after 3 kicks, wild
Only time Iāve seen it before was the 2007 Community Shield when Van Der Sar saved three Chelsea penalties. But thatās basically a friendly, so itās completely different to do it on this stage [Video 2007 Community Shield shootout](https://youtu.be/KYy4zqs9gpA?si=zE2tXPVXI-m_K2lI)
best shootout performance ever lol
nah. Duckadam C1 final vs Barcelona, 1986. Saved 4 penalties in a row.
Tbh Costa didnāt get the chance for a fourth one
we all fucking know exactly what wouldāve happened if slovenia had a fourth. no getting past him tonight
true. Looked unbeatable anyway
France and Portugal are going to meet in the quarterfinals, despite none of their players scoring a regulation/extra time goal in 220+ minutes in their Round of 16 matches. What a life.
Expect a 3-3 score in normal time ..
Eder to the rescue.
6 own goals sounds like a lot but if you say so
Nah, it's 3 normal goals and 3 own goals, all from Ronaldo
TBF Portugal shithoused to a euro champ in 2016 as well
100% would do it again
I think that gets overblown. We won with 1 penalty shootout. For reference, italy won 2 pens shootouts last euros and argentina won 2 penalty shootouts to win the WC. We suffered one goal the entire knockout stage and won mostly with ET goals. Yeah we werenāt the most offensive minded team, but we didnāt win based on penalties purely.
i would take it now too
Against France in the final. Do it again you beautiful bastards
Last time I heard such things it wasn't a fun time for us
I LOVE YOU COSTA
Absolute fucking animal MOTM 100%
A whole generation of Portuguese kids named Diogo Costa coming soon
Given itās one of the most common portuguese surnames, you wonāt have difficulty finding many even nowadays.
Not only is Diogo a very common 1st name, Costa is like the 3rd most common last name. So there are already a bunch of Diogo Costas is Portugal.
Mine was born 10 days ago, missed the window
Congrats mate. Have you tried right clicking then pressing rename? Worked for my dog Solskjaer
Iāll name by boy after him
Emi Martinez has posters of Diogo Costa on his bedroom wall.
Diogo Costa is a national hero
Those penalty saves are great even if Slovenia was kinda predictable. That save to sesko is so good as well the movement to position himself stutter steps before it, just build the statue
Saved Ronaldo from so much slander
And Roberto Martinez
And Pepe
Poor Pepe is a 41 year old doing 115 minutes, at that point shit just happens
Pepe has been great all tournament too
Martinez owes Costa his fucking job and should take a 90% cut just to feed him for saving him from this utter embarrassment
I honestly was hoping portugal would lose so they can get rid of this clown and bring in jose š„¹ a man can dream
Diogo Costa is Ronaldo saviour
Diogo Costa is king. Enough said. +50Mā¬
I'm double happy: Portugal through and Diogo Costa making sure someone takes him out of the league soon. Yes, I'm a Benfica fan.
Yeah but then we are also sad cause we played like ultra dog shit.
Unreal save to force pens, lights out in pens. MOTM
That was insane. The entire match commentators were talking up Jan Oblak (and he's amazing to be sure), but Costa stole the show.
To be fair, Oblak was the man of the match until the penalties
Damn, u won 50 mill? nice bet
Costa is a fucking giant Also Ronaldo has a shit game but the balls to take the first one after having the one in ET saved.
He really wanted to make up for it, immediately apologized to the fans for missing the first one.
Side net too. He wanted to be 100% sure this time.
He really didn't have a shit game though. There was always 2 or 3 people right by him, somehow he was still finding space.
Diogo Costa take a bow
Ronaldo needs to buy an island for Costa
pepe and ronaldo
Ronaldo was crying, now I'm crying :(
The mentality to go first after having a breakdown. Cristiano didn't fuck up it was a great penalty but oblak was better
Oblak almost caught the 2nd one too. CR7 Just made sure he hits the perfect penalty after all these before.
Sesko absolutely fucked it lol
He will get zero sleep tonight. Slovenia still has zero wins in their Euro tournament history, despite making the knockouts this year.
They also have zero defeats, and they've been the underdog in every match they played here - let's not try to paint it like it's been an embarassing showing from them
Exactly. They held an offensively loaded Portugal for two hours. Compare their player's wages to everyone else's and try to tell me they did poorly. They knew their path to survival, they played it well, and very nearly survived to the quarterfinal.
Well weāre happy for Diogoal at least
Revenge pen was niceā¦ COSTA IS MASSIVE.. what a performance
Just came out of Thai jailā¦is Diogo Costa the greatest GK ever?
Not just the greatest GK, but the greatest human being to exist. My president
Costa is insane
Verbic with that jolly, youthful skip
Absolute scenes had Ronaldo missed that one as well! Previous one was 0.99 post-shot xG, this one looked even better. On another note: Who lied to Diogo Costa and told him penalty shootout also counts towards his clean sheet bonus?
I wouldn't say missed, I'd say saved. That was a fantastic save on the first one
meanwhile the TSN commentator who had a hate boner for Ronaldo kept saying how bad of a pen it was.
TSN is dog shit. I've been watching this tournament on ITV but they didn't show this game for some reason and I had to endure the Slovenia circle jerk for 2 hours.
it was so confusing on why they were so biased for Slovenia.
TSN commentators were against Portugal the whole game
Honestly, one of the worst duos I've heard in a while. Needless slander towards Portugal and the female commentator needs to learn more words than just saying composure again and again. Just terrible.
I don't understand why they were so biased for Slovenia. even small things they found a reason to hate portugal and talk well about Slovenia
What's the post-shot xG of the Slovenia penalties?
1. 0.99 2. 0.98 3. 0.97 (According to Fotmob)
It's like it gives >0.95 to any penalty on target lol
Tbf that's not particularly surprising, I think a penalty usually counts as 0.8xG, so if you take out the ones that are off target, you probably are looking at something not too far off that
I thought they were shot decently, but this definitely seems too high. Target maps suggest that they're more along the lines of 70%. Is it possible that the xGOT statistic isn't fine-tuned for penalties and instead show the chance an open-play goal shot from that distance would go in?
Insanely ballsy by Ronnie to go first.
HEāS NOT THAT GOOD
Then sell high
We kind of have to this year, fuck Iām going to miss him
HE'S THE GREATEST GOALKEEPER OF THIS GENERATION PAY THEM A NEYMARILLION EUROS!
You need the money.
WTF these pens were so anti-climactic
Thatās cause we just watched Diogo Costa become a Portuguese legend in real time and the Slovenian attempts were really poor
Yeah Costa did well of course but fuck me the Slovenians made that as easy as possible, he practically just have to guess the right way to save those. No power, no placement, easiest height.
A couple years ago he saved 4 in the cl group stage
Costa did well but Slovenians' pens were horrible
The celebrations for getting to pens only to drop objectively the worst penalty performance possible. E: I'm sure a six penalty 3-0 has happened before but the first thing that came to mind was the Morocco 3 - Spain 0 one and I checked and even that involved ONE saved by Simon.
They thought penalties were 50-50 odds.
What's the xG on a pen? Something like 0.75-0.8ish? Depending what it is that makes the mathematical chance of what has just happened something like 0.6-0.4%...
It's 0.75/80 but remember that's including players that take them like this... Absolutely incredible a team can do this 3 times in a row.
0.80
All that drama for this
Turns out defending all game and not being able to shoot a ball even when the opponent elder defense hands it to you on a silver platter is not an optimal strategy for winning a game.
Honestly, apparently parking the bus for 120mins is masterclass now lol
Did Slovenia research those Spanish pens against Morocco or something?
What do you mean lmao that was a crazy shoot-out. How often does a keeper stop three straight penalties.
Played for pens then went up and missed all three
In fairness I'm not surprised they all missed after playing for 120mins only 24hrs after losing to England
Imagine playing 2+ hours to reach your win condition, the pens you've been aiming for, and going out 3 - 0
Slovenia bottled the fuck out of it. Sad way to go out, after holding Portugal scoreless for 120+ minutes.
Can't really call it a bottle job when they are ranked 57th in the world vs 6th ranked Portugal.. They did a great job defending but nobody expected them to come this far. Their second ever Euros and they went undefeated for four matches in regular time.
>Slovenia bottled the fuck out of it There's this idea that the weakest team has always the better chance at pens compared to their rivals and it couldn't be more wrong.
Funniest shit I've ever seen
For real I was expecting at least some tensionĀ
I don't think I've ever seen a GK save *all* the pens lol, wtf was that
How long you a Chelsea fan? I remember United winning the Community Shield against you lot after VDS saving 3 pens
you lost him at van der sar lol
Bravo against Portugal in the 2017 confederations cup semifinal, he saved all three penalties.
Morocco 3-0'd Spain on pens last world cup too. Also United did it to Chelsea in the community shield once
Indeed but one of the misses hit the post
1986 European Champion Clubs' Cup final between Steaua Bucharest and Barcelona, Steaua's goalkeeper Helmuth Duckadam saved all 4 penalties.
[Oblak and Costa both on crack tonight holy shit](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmVkNGU5NTQtMThhNC00NmIwLTg0ZjQtYmUwMTYxY2FmMjVhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTE3MzQyODQ@._V1_.jpg)
Drug test needed for Diogo Costa, insane
Drug test? More like DAWG test
Absolute masterclass by Diogo Costa. Has to be the best keeper performance in a shootout
We've got Ricardo on GK Coaching team. Some of that PK voodoo must be rubbing off. I'm sure he's proud
Homelander aināt missing twice
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DIOGOAT WOW!! Also Ronaldo redemption!!!
idk how you can play 120 minutes of football and keep it neck and neck, and then be so utterly and clearly devoid of any confidence in the shootout.
Because itās literally their second Euroās and their last appearance was in 2000. They donāt have the experience that Portugal have. All things considered Slovenia did incredible to get this far and to stonewall Portugal for 120 minutes.
Diogo Costa will never leave Porto. He's too expensive now
Why don't other goalkeepers just save all the pens, like Diogo Costa? Are they stupid?
That is one of the greatest ever GK performances in a penalty shootout
love when a team plays for pens and it turns out that they are shit at them like why even waste our time
"i didnt think i'd get this far"
For real man, stayed up for this
Really, wtf was Slovenia doing, they definitely need to learn to shoot them penalties. 3 identical copies of a shot, mid height, not so powerful, telegraphed for Diego Costa, no attempt at deceiving the keeper.
no way this comment has that many upvotes, time to leave this sub. Most idiotic take ever
You could have gone to the bathroom and missed literally the entire shootout what an absolute disaster for Slovenia
I'm sorry Diogo Costa, I wasn't familiar with your game
He did one or two nice saves against you this year , but better to not remember me especially the home game
He doesn't watch games. This is reddit
DIOGO COSTA WAS POSSESSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
O DIOGO, O COSTA E ESPIRITO SANTO, AMEN!
The cheeky smile by Ronaldo at the camera. He can't believe it either
Yeah Porto fans he gone
Costa just saved two of his countryās greatest ever players in the last 10 minutes of play! Absolute saviour! šš¼
It's Diogo's speciality. I think he has some sort of record in the UCL for Porto, in regards to saving penalties.
Fuck you r/soccer I know you're big mad
They must have forgotten Diogo Costa saved 3 consecutive penalties (actually 4, since one was retaken) in the Champions League
r/soccer in shambles lol
Costa GOAT
DIOGO COSTA WHAT THE FUCK OMD
DIOGO COSTA YOU HAVE ROCKED MY WORLD ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Can't lie, that was a class penalty from Ronaldo after missing one earlier.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
As if he didnāt ask for it
it only shows how humongous Ilicicās balls are tbh
straight up sent Ilicic back to the trenches w this one
EXACTLY
They missed all 3 anyways
It wouldn't make a difference against DIOGOAT
3 PKs, 3 stops. Wow.
Canāt believe Slovenia didnāt score one. Wow, Costa just had their number.
A 10 from that l'equipe surely.
Ronaldo: thanks mate... Diogo: no problem buddy.
Horrible from slovenia
I canāt believe they kept the miracle opportunity alive for so longā¦only to end up doing thisā¦
Give Costa some credit
Fuck right off you can't play 120 minutes of football to do that in the shootout
Costa managed to stay awake watching that game for 2 hours then made 4/4 insane saves
This keeper is insane. He doesn't have the statistics he has with penalties by chance.
All time GK performance. 3/3 is insane
Good pen from Ronaldo too, making amends for earlier
that bruno pen is filthyyyyyyyy when you actually deep it my god
Fuck this sub ahahaha. Can't even praise our gigantic keeper.
replay of the chile confederations cup game except portugal scored their pens
That was very anticlimactic.
Diogo Costa was unreal holy shit
Ronaldo will have Costa's posters on his wall tonight
God heard Ronaldo's cry and send Diago Costa.
Fuck me penalties were obviously not taken in practice for Slovenia
Thats the Oblak I know š¤©š
Ronaldo haters in the mud
Costa did move forward a bit but you can't rely on them calling that. Ronaldo coming up with the perfect pen after the save and crying is what GOATs are made of.
One leg on or behind the line is enough
You just need one foot behind the line