Oh this is the kind of action we expect. The end-to-end stuff. Players in full throttle. The lesson I have learnt in football this year, is that you can have quick strikers, powerful strikers, slow strikers, technically adept strikers, but the one thing that makes a striker good…

If there were any concerns that the Portuguese may not have what it takes to make it through their group, they should be put aside for the moment. They have Varela to thank for whose thunderous strike saved them from any blushes that they would face otherwise. The Portuguese…