[quote=Locke;2159173]I'd love that too. Portugal is going to create a group of death as they're going to come in as a low seed, so there will be 2 higher seeded teams, a lower seeded team and Portugal. It'll be interesting, but they had better get their act together or they're going to get slaughtered. Squeaking out a couple of narrow wins against Bosnia doesnt really inspire tons of confidence.
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Doing it without their best player and their starting right back will help their confidence and going into a hostile enviroment like Bosnia should not be overlooked either.
I do agree that if they play the way they've been playing in the qualifying, they stand no chance of getting out of the first round unless they get a really fortunate draw, but that's unlikely pending the seeds of course.
My expectations going into South Africa will be low, no doubt about it, but they were really low going into 2004.
At the end of the day, they didn't embarass themselves by not getting in and all this will be forgotten if they can put some kind of a run together. I'm not counting on it, but the World Cup will be a lot more interesting with a team like Portugal in.
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