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Old 06-05-2008, 11:08 AM   #78
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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN View Post
Gomes is a striker, along with Postiga and Almeida

Ronaldo, Simao, Quaresma and Nani are the wingers.....no better depth in the world at that poisiton.

In their friendly on Saturday, Ronaldo and Simao were the wingers with the striker being Gomes. That's probably gonna be who starts on Saturday.

They play a 4-2-3-1 system

Bosingwa Carvalho Pepe Ferreira(ugh)
Petit Moutinho
Ronaldo Deco Simao
Gomes

Quaresma will probably be the first off the bench for Simao, Miguel Veloso will come on for Moutinho, something like that.

If Deco doesn't play well, as he hasn't, it would not shock me to see Simao get put in the middle, and Quaresma or Nani take the other wing.
But Simao is often used as a striker, no? You don't think he might get employed there with Nuno Gomes?

Either way, Portugal has some sick offense... it will be interesting to see if that defense is up to task though.
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