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June 13th, 2006 | By: Luis | 22 Comments »

I just finished watching the Brazil v Croatia match. It was a great game to watch with lots of back and forth action and, yet again, we saw the underdogs make a good showing of it. Brazil started fast but was slowly warn down by a very dense Croatian team. Croatia managed to put together quite a few chances throughout the game proving that this brilliant Brazilian side does indeed have some chinks in its armor. Croatia just failed to capitalize. The result could have been very different if one of those shots took a strange deflection.

That leads me to my question. Could Portugal defeat Brazil in a theoretical final? Brazil are still clear favorites and for that reason the clear benchmark for what it’s going to take to win this title. They certainly looked more fluid then Portugal, but if we continue to improve, and yes I know the Brazilians will improve also, do you think we have what it takes to defeat them?

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By Dan Lourenço | June 14th, 2006 at 12:30 am

We’ve beaten the Brazilians before (remember Deco’s debut?), though not during a game like this.

I think any given team can beat anyone else, with a little luck and team spirit. Portugal’s got class players, as does Brasil. It would certainly be an entertaining game, and I wouldn’t see a thrashing either way. We’ve got solid central defenders, and Brazil’s defense probably isn’t as high quality as their midfielders and forwards.

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By Luis Paulo | June 14th, 2006 at 12:39 am

Here in Brazil we believe the we suck in this boring game. However we always do on every WC debut.

Portugal can beat Brazil in a final like France did in 98. Scolari knows the Brazilians players very well.

By Luis | June 14th, 2006 at 12:55 am

Luis Paulo – you Brazilians are spoiled. You always expect a show. There is so much football left. Plenty more highs and lows to come. I’m loving it!

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By onyx | June 14th, 2006 at 3:55 am

Such said likely which on the training camp, Portugal,A world is listed the seventh team,Does not have the reason not to enter 1/4.Much less,Portugal’s foot works hard also is the world first-class,Only then Brazil may carry on in technical with him contending with.Waiting,Has the ornamental extremely competition.Refuels, Portugal!!

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By pedro | June 14th, 2006 at 8:09 am

yes, Portugal could beat Brasil, just as we beat England and Holland before. But we could also lose, like we did with Greece . I trust Scolari, he will get us far; this slow start did everything we needed: a win, and made our players realize that no game is garanteed. Portugal’s worse characteristic is that we can become overconfident – the game with Angola just prevented that from happening. Scolari will take us far; then maybe we find out about beating Brasil…

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By Alessandro | June 14th, 2006 at 10:48 am

Portugal, you have a fantastic team, I find it playing an exciting footbal, players are stylish and… Well, we are latin cousins…
I believe Portugal should have won the Euro 2004. I hope they ll show us great games in this World Cup and wish them to go as far as possible.

By O Grande Trinco | June 14th, 2006 at 2:20 pm

Yes, undoubtedly Portugal can definitely beat Brazil!

I do think if they hypothetically played 100 times, Brazil would win around 60-67% of the time though.

The extra quality and skill would show over a larger sample but in any one given game anything can happen!

By Ceasar Lourenco | June 14th, 2006 at 2:32 pm

Yes we definitly could beat Brazil. They have an open style that we tend to do well against.
It’s Italy’s defensive trap style that we struggle against.
I would personaly love to see a Brazil-Portugal final or semi. I think that could have the makings of a “match or the tournament”.

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By Luis Paulo | June 14th, 2006 at 4:43 pm

Luis, we are surely spoiled. That’s why we complain about everyteam LOL

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By shaw | June 14th, 2006 at 8:02 pm

Not a chance even to qualify for the second round!!!!

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By O Grande Trinco | June 14th, 2006 at 8:29 pm

shaw, I must say I don’t know whether to take your comment as your actual opinion or as sarcastic satire of the question.

But I would guess I am giving you too much credit.

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By Vin | June 14th, 2006 at 8:41 pm

Portuguese Ronaldo > Brazilian Ronaldo

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By Alessandro | June 15th, 2006 at 9:52 am

Shaw, where’s the Canadian team?? Haa yea, they are home watching the cup on TV… Hhahahah

By Sassan | June 15th, 2006 at 1:17 pm

first worry about Iran then think about brasil

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By Luis | June 15th, 2006 at 8:41 pm

Sassan – we were calibrating our chances in the tournament as a whole. Since Brazil are favorites, it makes sense to evaluate against them.

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By arm | June 17th, 2006 at 4:37 pm

Of course Portugal is capable of beating any team. Just a few breaks and a couple of favorable calls from the ref we seen it happen so many times before.
Ceasar I would love to see it as a final that would be a once in a life time game.

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By zad | June 20th, 2006 at 12:58 am

australia deserved to win against brazil. i rekon brazil ha become to old.

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By zad | June 20th, 2006 at 1:00 am

i personaly go for portugal. hope they win for good and beat the old brazilians !

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By Lopes | June 28th, 2006 at 4:33 am

I believe Portugal and Brasil play two very differen’t games. Portugal being a european team tends to play the wings very strongly during attacks. Brasil has a million tricks but tends to play down the middle with lightening quick breakaways as seen by Ronaldo today vs. Ghana.

Would be very interesting to watch them play.

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By yanks | June 28th, 2006 at 6:35 am

Dude, portugal v brasil could be the greatest game of all time. 2 portuguese speaking nations with tons of talent who have never played each other this deep in the world cup…i believe that if portugal can get past england, no easy task by any stretch, portugal/brasil will be talked about for a loooong time. all i know is that if that game goes down you have to go to the ironbound section of newark new jersey to truly understand how sick that game will be.

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My bet on World Cup

[...] Brazil will defeat Germany in the finals with a small 2:1. I said that a few days ago and I’m still pretty sure. … What do you think? [...]

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By RK | December 29th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

We beat Brasil almost every time we play them. Don’t believe me…check the statistics for yourself! Força Portugal. In 2010…we will donimate, we can beat any team…unfortunately it seems any team can beat us.

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