Game 12: Portugal vs Czechia live from the Leipzig Stadium. BBC1 8pm

[Pedwar Pump]

Portugals side is stacked, loads of quality 

[kopsy101]

Appearing in a 6th Euro is just utterly ridiculous. What a guy. Particularly as a starter, although if the only alternative is Ramos then that's no surprise. 

[Kewan]

Gotta love Vitinha, what a great midfielder.

[Baptista_8]

I can imagine Roberto Martinez giving in to Ronaldo's demands like no other

[Gary_Parker]

Rafael Leao is just far too frustrating to watch. Picks the wrong option almost every time and has no left foot whatsoever. 

Probably bag a hat trick now though 

[Bliss Seeker]

Anyone else find themselves watching Ronaldo all the time? 

His movement, or lack of it, his moaning, or lack of it - is just fascinating to watch. 

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

Disappointing performance by Czechia. They looked somewhat dangerous in the first minutes but not even trying anymore

[Haguey]

Most of Portugals good moments are coming from Czech stupidity    

[Weezer]

2 minutes ago, Bliss Seeker said:

Anyone else find themselves watching Ronaldo all the time? 

His movement, or lack of it, his moaning, or lack of it - is just fascinating to watch. 

A little bit. He was still one of the greatest players of all time tbf, whatever people might think of him as a person, your eyes can't help but be drawn to him.

Edited June 18 by Weezer

[Weezer]

Czechia look poor but Portugal as usual are labouring for a goal.

[GunmaN1905]

Embarrassing.

[Barry Cartman]

Well done ref 

[Haguey]

Hahaha well done ref

[CFuller]

Leao booked for diving.

Needs to learn from the master.

[GunmaN1905]

Just now, Barry Cartman said:

Well done ref 

Hillarious he's trying it with Italian ref who's well aware of his antics.

[av3ry]

Commentators thought the Czech got booked. They were both confused.

[Haguey]

Commentators right on the ball as always

[georginho_juventusygr]

Can't bamboozle Italian referees!

[Bliss Seeker]

He looked like he started laughing as the thought of diving cropped into his head there

 

 

[Smallen]

no idea why Leao even went down like that too. Fair play to the ref, could do with loads more of that.

[Darius1998]

Pretty funny dive, just launched himself as soon as Soucek was nearby.

[Barry Cartman]

Hopefully has the balls to send him off when he does it again 

[Astafjevs]

Danny Murphy 

'Think it's just outside the box, right decision. There it is'

<Guida cards Rafa Leao for diving>

'Has he booked Leao for diving? Yeh great decision. Went over too easily'

[Darren Moores Mum]

How many times do we get the commentary team not knowing what's actually going on? 

[Haguey]

Worst first half of the tournament this so far, one quality bit of play that was offside anyway

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

Just now, Darren Moores Mum said:

How many times do we get the commentary team not knowing what's actually going on? 

another promising drinking game

[eenie]

Portugal trying to bore the Czechs into submission

[Haguey]

Christ, so many awful passes

[CFuller]

3 minutes ago, Astafjevs said:

Danny Murphy 

'Think it's just outside the box, right decision. There it is'

<Guida cards Rafa Leao for diving>

'Has he booked Leao for diving? Yeh great decision. Went over too easily'

I thought he'd turned into Peter Walton for a minute. 

[Smallen]

really is a classic Roberto Martinez team performance so far.

[CFuller]

0-0 HT. I think we used up all our daily excitement in the last game.

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

quite the contrast to the earlier game.

[mrw072]

Really disappointed with Portugal here - think they need to change things up front in the 2nd half.  I think the Czechs will be quite happy so far.

[Astafjevs]

Gary Lineker does not want to hear any more from Robyn Cowan

 

[RTHerringbone]

I haven't been able to watch all of this one, but what I have seen has been by far the worst football of the tournament.

I get that the Czech's possibly feel they can't go toe to toe with Portugal, but having watched the earlier game, I'm not sure their games against Georgia and Turkey will be any "easier" to manage either.

[Weezer]

Always thought back in the Rui Costa and Figo era that all Portugal needed was a striker and they'd be a great team, but they've had one of the greatest goalscorers in the history of the game for 20 years now and they're still boring as ****.

[CFuller]

Just now, Astafjevs said:

Gary Lineker does not want to hear any more from Robyn Cowan

Toxic masculinity. 

To be fair, I don't want to hear any more from these two either. Probably the BBC's weakest commentary duo - and that includes anything with Jenas.

[JD nawrat]

7 minutes ago, Haguey said:

Worst first half of the tournament this so far, one quality bit of play that was offside anyway

First game I've watched this tournament, you're welcome

[Astafjevs]

It's interesting because Portugal have been completely untroubled, but at the same time haven't offered much themselves. I do wonder if this system is some classic Bobby Martínez look at me overcoaching. 

Czech Republic have some decent players, but there's a clear talent gap. Do Portugal really need to be clever with a 3-4-3/3-4-2-1 where Cancelo is playing leftwingback but actually not playing leftwingback and instead playing central midfield? Just seems a bit pointless when you're better all over the pitch.

[Darius1998]

For such a stacked team, that was beyond boring.

Leao was easily getting through on the left only to do nothing and then the one time he had more space to run into, he decided to dive anyway.

[SouthCoastRed]

9 minutes ago, Haguey said:

Worst first half of the tournament this so far, one quality bit of play that was offside anyway

 

1 minute ago, JD nawrat said:

First game I've watched this tournament, you're welcome

First half I've missed, I love my dog sometimes 

[BigV]

Get Neto or Jota on for bernardo 

[Heartwork]

This has 0-0 all over it.

[Smallen]

3 minutes ago, Astafjevs said:

It's interesting because Portugal have been completely untroubled, but at the same time haven't offered much themselves. I do wonder if this system is some classic Bobby Martínez look at me overcoaching. 

Czech Republic have some decent players, but there's a clear talent gap. Do Portugal really need to be clever with a 3-4-3/3-4-2-1 where Cancelo is playing leftwingback but actually not playing leftwingback and instead playing central midfield? Just seems a bit pointless when you're better all over the pitch.

I’m coming round to the Ancelotti school of just putting your best players in the right positions and mostly leaving them to it when you’ve got a vastly superior team.

[enigmatic]

15 minutes ago, The Amazing Dale Watkins said:

another promising drinking game

definitely more promising than one based on chances created or goals scored this evening  

[Bliss Seeker]

How is Steve Clarke able to motivate anyone to do anything other than fall asleep? 

So so dull. 

Edited June 18 by Bliss Seeker

[noikeee]

I don't think it was that bad, but too many bad crosses and lacking a bit of spark and connection between midfield and attack. 

Just keep pushing and let's see what happens.

[Coulthard's Jaw]

[GunmaN1905]

4 minutes ago, Coulthard&#x27;s Jaw said:

Who's at the bottom of the pool in that meme?

[Barry Cartman]

Czechs the least convincing side of the tournament on the counter