Cristiano Ronaldo passes to give Portugal a chance

The world says that United states of America cant play Football.Well i think it differently and so does the world will after what a performance they have shown against Portugal whose current standing in FIFA Ranking is 3.Portugal in its first match against Germany lost a whooping 4-0 match,so they were expected to win these match for sure considering the fact that USA is a comparatively weaker than that of Germany.Portugal started the match very strongly as they got the first goal in just 5th minute when defender Geoff Cameron mishit and Nani scored a easy though beautiful goal.

The match was going on very fine as both sets of the team were very organized and it was half time and Portugal was still leading 1-0.But in the second half scenarios were about to change as the Portugal defense were seemingly weak as compare to that of the first half and they paid the price when Jermaine Jones blasted the ball into
the net in the 64th minute of the game.The condition became worse when the Man of USA Clint Dempsey chested a ball into the back of the net after a brilliant play form four of the teammates and USA was leading in the 82nd minute.USA was playing brilliantly through out the whole match and was set to advance in the next round unless and until just 10 seconds left in the match and that too in extra time when the world player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo passed a brilliant ball to Varela who headed the ball back into the net and gave Portugal a slightest chance to advance into the competition.This chance also stands for USA too.

But the main question arises that whether Portugal's way of playing can won them any silverware because according to me i think it wont.The whole team depends on their captain to produce some magic every time Cristiano is a great player but he is acting as both the God and Curse of Portugal because when somebody pass the ball to him the whole stadium expects something from him but its not possible to show skills every now and then and when he fails to do something then the whole media criticizes him instead of the whole team.Portugal should play some organized football-Its not that they don't have good player-Players like Varela,Nani and Eder have that capability-i can also add Moutinho and Pepe who have lots of experience in the game and can help their country to play much better football instead of just relying on one man and playing street football.

However how the things stand right now we can see that both USA and Portugal have slightest chances to advance into the next round depending on how they perform in the next match.Portugal will play Ghana and USA will be competing against Germany both matches are very competitive and it wont be very easy for the both the countries to have a easy way.Cristiano Ronaldo still haven't scored in this world cup and every fan of him from around the world is waiting for him to show his charisma in the next match which will be against Ghana.

                                                                                                                                Anuttam Chatterjee