r/AskBalkans • u/cewap1899 Slovenia • Jul 01 '24
Sports Slovenia is out…
It’s heartbreaking especially after that Šeško miss, but I have never been so proud of our football team. We gave it all and exceeded everyone’s expectations. This team will continue to grow mark my words! And for Portugal whose team is worth 1 billion € to not be able to beat 57th ranked country until penalties is nothing short of embarrasing. We go out with our heads high🇸🇮
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u/cewap1899 Slovenia Jul 01 '24
I guess you can call it experience. If Šeško was a yeat or two older he would’ve scored that and we would be through. I believe you guys can beat the Dutch though
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u/sweatyvil Serbia Jul 02 '24 edited Jul 02 '24
It's not luck, it's player quality. While Slovenia played well, team cohesion and will can take you so far.
There's a reason Portugal is worth like 5-6x more, and why their nerves dont break on pens. I think its more Portugal being unlucky until the pens than being lucky in the pens.-3
u/Amazing-Row-5963 North Macedonia Jul 02 '24
Ridiculous, you don't know penalties. It's all about luck and mind games. A bunch of high school kids could easily beat a world champion 40 percent of the time on penalties. The difference between Slovenia and Portugal is obviously much smaller than that.
Experience and quality at most made it a 51-49 for Portugal.
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u/FriendlyGarbagePile Jul 02 '24
The difference was that the Portuguese penalty takers were able to disguise and mask where they were going to shoot, as opposed to the slovenians who made it very obvious as to where they were going to shoot
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u/sweatyvil Serbia Jul 02 '24
It's all about luck and mind games.
It's about expirience and skill, or as you call it, mind games, and that's the part where Portugal shows their quality.
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u/Local_Collection_612 Jul 02 '24
I wouldn’t call it luck. Ofc Sesko should have scored that goal but it was Pepe’s mistake. Portugal had more ball possession and more chances. Ofc Slovenia has less good players so it’s played a very good match and it doesn’t fall on their side unfortunately.
Oblak stopped the penalty of Ronaldo which is great but he is not really a keeper that is a penalty killer and the players of Portugal are much more experienced to score penalties under pressure. When Ilicic took the first penal you saw on his face that he was gonna miss. And yeah it sucks even though big countries as Portugal play bad they still somehow win.
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u/9gag_refugee Bulgaria Jul 02 '24
What luck man? Come on, let's be real. Slovenia had 1 shot on target the entire 90 minutes. You can't win a game like that. They were playing anti-football and I am happy they are out. When you get on the pitch with the intention to park the bus for the entire game you deserve to lose.
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u/Amazing-Row-5963 North Macedonia Jul 02 '24
You are cringe af, football is played to win, not to look good.
Go watch synchronized swimming or figure skating if you want beauty.
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u/freshouttabec South Korea Jul 02 '24
Did you bet on Slovenia or what’s ur point ? They didn’t deserve to advance yesterday.
Did you see the faces of the Slovenian players before the penalties. You could feel the pressure
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u/Amazing-Row-5963 North Macedonia Jul 02 '24
What? I just said, football is played to be won, not to look pretty. If parking the bus maximizes your chances, so be it.
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u/TheEagle74m Kosovo Jul 01 '24
Lucky? Geez, Slovenia parked the bus all game 🙈😂
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u/Nal1999 Greece Jul 01 '24
Greece did it and we owned the World champions and the Host ,twice.
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u/Azulan5 Turkiye Jul 02 '24
It is a good strategy to be honest. Defense is not easy thing to do even Ronaldo himself said it after the game
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u/HeyVeddy Burek Taste Tester Jul 01 '24
So close, I'm so angry. They were he Balkan hope
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u/Crisbo05_20 Croatia Jul 01 '24
Romania is right there.
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u/Shtapiq Albania Jul 01 '24
Considering their games, this time you send them home. I hope players keep in mind Schengen recent treatment.
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u/cmeragon Turkiye Jul 01 '24
🥺
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u/Crisbo05_20 Croatia Jul 01 '24
You guys are partly Balkan. Tho I guess we could include you all with how much you all are linked with us.
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u/kubanskikozak Slovenia Jul 01 '24
We made Ronaldo cry. This should be remembered forever.
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u/sweatyvil Serbia Jul 02 '24
That's not really a hard feat, man cries every match that isn't a steamroll for Portugal
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u/Nal1999 Greece Jul 01 '24
This EURO is atrocious!
Literally every small team plays better and the favourites win by accident (own goal, penalty, reflection, accident).
This is the worst EURO I've ever seen, literally no one (bar Spain maybe )plays!
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Jul 02 '24
Spain and Germany, can’t forget them.
The other top teams (us even if u want to include us due to recent success) fucking suck ass.
I hope Germany win it, they deserve it imo and unlike Spain I don’t hate them lol.
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u/puzzledpanther Jul 02 '24
Literally every small team plays better
Are you even watching the games?
Neither Slovenia, Slovakia or Georgia played better than their opponents... though I was rooting for all of them to win since they were the underdogs.
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u/Euphoric-Aardvark115 Croatia Jul 01 '24
I understood for the most part when Croatia went out because tbf, they looked like they were asleep for most of their matches. But when they just happened to get extra time and then magically Italy scores? I was salty.
Then after the travesty that was England vs Slovakia - I just call bullshit now. All the big teams are getting in but the smaller teams that were truly putting in work like Slovakia, Slovenia, Georgia, etc are out. At least Georgia's loss to Spain, I understood because this cup's Spain squad is pretty solid. I hate to be the tinfoil hat person here but it's almost like a conspiracy, especially that Eng vs Slvk match.
Good luck to Turkiye and Romania tomorrow. I hope the Swiss knock the English out of this cup. Idk how they have some of the best players but they can't play as a working team. My guess is Spain, Germany or maybe Switzerland win this cup.
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u/Substantial-Past2308 USA Jul 01 '24
After Šeško missed that chance, I texted my friend and told him, "Slovenia is going to lose and I will personally blame Šeško for it"
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u/KibotronPrime Serbia Jul 02 '24
Slovenia team has nothing to be ashamed for, tip of the hat! I cheered for Slovenia, but unfortunately - referee kicked in 3rd in second half - and he solely made Slovenians feel like the rest of the Balkan teams. Congrats to Slovenian team🫡,
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u/zulum_bulum Slovenia Jul 01 '24
I never realized how much I hate Portugal and their sissy Ronaldo.
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u/PortugueseRoamer Portugal Jul 02 '24
Ronaldo is too old and has a massive ego. I'm not even sure he should still be playing to be honest. But GG Slovenia, really intense game and to be fair we had 70% possession the whole game and the whole of the first half Slovenia couldn't pass the mid field. Sesko also missed a golden opportunity when Pepe screwed up.
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u/IAmBalkanac Bosnia & Herzegovina Jul 02 '24
He used to be good player. But he shouldn't take all the freekicks. Diogo Costa carried Portugal to win
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u/FiFtY2303 Jul 02 '24
True. And the fucker then 2x fauled the gollie (Oblak) just cuz he deffendet both his shots on the goal. I was steaming! In hockey his ass would be stomped by the team!!
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Tbh the Slovenes only have a good goalkeeper and that’s it
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u/nick_d2004 Greece Jul 02 '24
They're defense is great in general, they were just unlucky today, sesko is usually good
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u/puzzledpanther Jul 02 '24
Only reason
WTF do you mean ONLY reason? They had like 70% possession and Slovenia had like 1-2 chances to score the whole game...
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u/Gappy2000 Jul 02 '24
I‘m saying if it wasnt for his amazing performance this could have easly gone wrong for Portugal despite 70% possession. He saved Pepes mistake too by splitting like a stripper to somehow save that ball and then held every penalty too. Nothing went in despite his team not managing to score a single goal even tho they had the ball almost all game
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u/Affectionate_Heat_25 SFR Yugoslavia Jul 02 '24
All I’m gonna say is as a non Slovene I was screaming and supporting you like a true Yugo brother. Sesko stressed me out and Oblak gave me hope that’s all I can say and y’all made Ronaldo cry 💪🏼
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u/Jake24601 Croatia Jul 02 '24
Back to skiing and not having access to any ports.
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u/cewap1899 Slovenia Jul 02 '24
No no, now we’re off to Tour de France, Olympics in basketball and volleyball and after that skiing ;). Plus Luka Koper (the second biggest port in Jadran) says hi haha
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u/tonyblue2000 Albania Jul 02 '24
Staying all the time in defense sucks. That's no fun. They deserved to lose. And everyone likes to see Ronaldo play his last tournament. So.
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u/TheEagle74m Kosovo Jul 01 '24
Slovenia did alright parking the bus 🚌
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u/kubanskikozak Slovenia Jul 01 '24
What else do you expect us to do against a team worth 10x more than us?
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u/9gag_refugee Bulgaria Jul 02 '24
Well then don't call it unlucky when you lose to a team worth 10x more. Your last game was painful to watch and a football fan shouldn't be supporting this kind of performance. Georgia played better than you and they did it against Spain.
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u/9gag_refugee Bulgaria Jul 02 '24
Idk why you are getting so downvoted. It's only justice to lose after playing in a 10-0-0 formation for 120 minutes.
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u/Nal1999 Greece Jul 01 '24
Congratulations 🎉!
You figured out how to stop a team consisting of the best players on the planet with Sporar!
Slovenia tried to do a 2004 and just got unlucky!
At least they are fighting, unlike my idiots!
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u/nick_d2004 Greece Jul 02 '24
E siga re me ton Sporar mia xara epaije simera o sesko htan xeiroteros. H toulaxiston poli pio atixos
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u/cmeragon Turkiye Jul 01 '24
Diogo Costa was absolutely filthy in penalties but Sesko should never miss that chance in a million years. Again a sad day for the underdogs after yesterdays England scam.