Not Like in 2012

In 2012, Germany - Portugal was truly the derby of that European Championship group of death (also including Netherlands and Denmark). It was quite intense, and Portugal performed very well.

But this time, at World Cup 2014, only Germany seemed to have showed up.
And that awful defender pepe, who apparently did not have enough ruining Real Madrid efforts, now started ruining his national team's matches too.

The best thing for Portugal is that they won't have to use such a trojan-horse-of-a-player in their second match, thanks to the red card pepe got from referee Mazic.

It will be better for Portugal without him, I'm sure.

And Portugal, completely ridiculed here by the German overly-persistent way of playing, topped with three goals from pragmatic striker Thomas Muller, will have to get at least four points from the U.S.A. and Ghana matches (and possibly hope for other results to go their way) in order to be sure of advancing from this group.

Why such a contrast from Euro 2012, when Portugal reached the semifinals?

Well, Paulo Bento, their coach, is most definitely doing a bad job coaching this team.
Portugal had an easy qualifying group, but they could not beat russia for top spot. Even with Fabio Capello coaching the team with most of its landmass in Asia, that is just really disappointing for the Portuguese fans.
They did succeed in eliminating Sweden in the play-off tie, yes, but they should not have been in that position in the first place.
Besides pepe, Rui Patricio is another disaster player that Bento insists on using, still. Patricio is the one whom Portuguese supporters might hate for allowing Israel to score a goal, in Portugal, that caused his national team to drop two points that could have theoretically seen Portugal overtake russia in the end.
(I guess Bento did not see the Spain-Netherlands catastrophe, with Casillas at the forefront.)

Oh, and, finally, let's not forget Ronaldo. He did not play too well, either. But he probably has extenuating circumstances, being slightly injured still.

Portugal really needs to shape up from now on. Or they will really and truly ship out, and back home, very soon.

The Curse of the Idiot Player

What the fuck happened with that pathetic player Pepe today? How come Mourinho couldn't tell that pepe was going to play for Borussia Dortmund today?

And, even if Mourinho couldn't anticipate that pepe was going to throw the game (- 'cause, I mean, there's no point in denying that he was at fault in pretty much all of the german goals -), why didn't he sub off the traitor after the first goal he let Lewandowski score?

There must be huge problems behind the scenes, at Real Madrid, when the leadership and the fans cannot even count on Mourinho, who usually runs a pretty tight ship.

And pepe is one of his people, a Portuguese guy. Surely Mourinho knows him a little better than other players.

If I was a Real Madrid player, I would probably start a fight with Pepe in the locker room. I'm surprised there was no such outburst after that guy facilitated a Dortmund win that is very very likely to oust the Spanish giants.

It's kind of a pity, too, because Real Madrid - Bayern would have probably been the dream final. And Real would certainly play well in such a final, regardless of their internal problems. Whereas Borussia has about as many chances of beating Bayern as Malaga would have had of beating Real or Barcelona.

No Real - Barca final, again!!! (Curses! And too bad!...)

P.S. To conclude, I'm willing to bet pepe will not be playing official football for Real Madrid ever again. He shat where he eats. So, he's going to have to eat elsewhere.