Germany quite frankly played Portugal off the pitch today, although defensive frailties were still present. All the dismissive takes after what was by no means an especially bad performance against France are looking rather silly now.
Indeed, in fact the signs were already there in the game against Hungary. Portugal had immense difficulties against a very weak Hungary and was only able to score as Hungary just gave up at a certain point. Let's see how it goes with France, although I think it will be very difficult to defeat France. We'll see.
Agreed. Portugal had two own goals, which was very unfortunate for them, though I'd say Germany deserved the win. Much stronger performance than against France. Portugal had a relatively strong finish, though; if the match went on for another ten minutes, it may have been 4:3 or 4:4.
I just noticed that three own goals now happened in the sole two matchups we participated in.
