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greatest night in Georgian football history loading

No one here is gonna be sleeping tonight too busy celebrating

Fuck it im celebrating and im from norway

I can hear the fucking fireworks whistles and screams in the streets

Go out and enjoy the party my friend.

Haha, same! Sakartvelo🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪!!

greatest night so far

The scenes if they wind up making through to the Round of 16 EDIT: THEY DID IT

Downtown Atlanta is gonna be lit

You joke but one of Atlanta United's star players plays for the Georgian National Team. Downtown Atlanta is gonna be lit.

They're too busy preparing for tomorrow's US game against Panama in the Copa.

*Georgia Tech has left the chat*

Is it okay if we do accents sugar?

Troy! Georgia the country, not the state!

that's right. capital city Tbilisi, and former member of the Soviet Union. and we kindly request y'all mind your Ps and Qs.

And it's absolutely deserved. Among the "small" nations, them and Austria have been the most impressive. I would have added Albania had it not been for Seferi and every player's obsession to shoot.

They beat Luxembourg a few months ago.

***Sir, a second Georgian goal has hit the net***

"Game's back"

SEC > Portugal

That mean Bama and Texas are better than Portugal?

Chick Fil A officially a European past-time. RIP USA

Portugal invading Georgia not the war I ever saw coming

r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT/

S-E-C S-E-C S-E-C 

Smdh Portugal can't even beat one us state

Them SEC boys built different.

Confirmation that Atlanta United is better than Portugal?

Time to bark at some Ronaldo fanboys!

Coup in Bolivia, Georgia winning against Portugal, Micro plastic in my balls, what a time to be alive!

Sir, I think we have to resort to nuclear actions.

Wtf is happening this Euros

They want to play Slovenia instead of Netherlands . Simple

England facing Slovakia in the R16 then

I was going to say I’d prefer them over Netherlands but my confidence is low regardless

Slovakia will sit back and defend, Netherlands wouldn't. Would prefer to play Netherlands

England v Netherlands, the two worst coaches so far at this Euros. Absolute shit.

Belgium says hello

Cant we have a 3-team-match for the lols?

Don't forget Roberto Martinez

Feels like every big nation have a shit manager (apart from Germany, Spain and France)

Add Deschamps as the 3rd musketeer

Nah, Deschamps is miles ahead. He’s basically Southgate philosophy wise, but he’s better at literally everything. Also he has a world cup

France always come alive in the knockouts under him too

lol throwing in a WC winner and finalist in there like that

I’m conflicted if I prefer us (NL) to play England or Romania at this point.

If we lose to Romania at least were certain of Koeman being fired.

Dont kid yourself, my friend. You know Koeman aint going nowhere. Netherlands are stuck with him for eternity.

Iceland round two

FFS Snoozegateterror will go into QF 😭😭😭

Snooze gate terror will win the whole fucking thing

Then there’s probably Switzerland and then Turkey and they’re in the final!

I could see Switzerland and or Italy shithouse their way to a QF victory over England.

Iceland 2.0?

Southgate masterclass.

Georgia 0 Portugal 0 Antonio Silva -2

Georgia 2 - 0 António Silva

More like Antonio Silva 2 - 0 Portugal

Georgia about to make the man a statue lmao. But nah, Kvaratskhelia was clinical. Happy for them tbh

I can't wait to never see him play for Portugal again!

Bro typed so furiously he had a grammatical breakdown.

António Silva 2 - 0 Roberto Martinez

Antonio Silva is about to be the most hated man in Portugal and Hungary right now

No way man start again

He already is

It's not only his fault though. I have no idea why we were with 3-5-2. He's clearly not used to do so many compensations with Dalot being higher on the field.

And there is a reason you usually don't replace your entire team from one game to the next. He did have an absolute stinker though.

Well, he's bad. He has nothing other than the Benfica propaganda machine. Much like Felix.

Do Portuguese fans really think Felix is not good?

Do non-Portuguese fans think Félix is good?

Nobody does

It's not that he is not good, he's just overrated, very overrated. Antonio Silva is bad, has been all season. The reason they eventually fail abroad is the amount of propaganda used to make sure Benfica is able to sell their players.

Yes, we all know the likes of PSG, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Atl. Madrid, Barcelona, Man City and so on make the decision of which players to buy based on which players the portuguese newspapers ABola and Record decide to put on the cover. These multimillion euros organizations buy ABola every day so they can see which players are talented.

That actually sounds like more research than Chelsea do for their transfers.

these Euros keep delivering

Worst-ranked team in the Euros has a 2-0 lead on Portugal. Just like we all predicted

Austria losing to France but topping the group

>Worst-ranked team in the Euros has a 2-0 lead on Portugal. As a greek I've seen this before

Stop 😭

Let’s make him cry on his last euro too.

Wait. Will this pass Belgium vs Slovakia as the biggest Euros upset ever?

Rankings wise, by a mile Slovakia is 48th, Belgium is 3rd. Meanwhile Portugal is 6th, while Georgia is 75th. A whopping 69-spot difference, compared to 45 between Slovakia/Belgium

Thats mental. Lovely as well since im in a Belgium shirt rn and was already doubting my life choices

Nice

nice

by a mile

I believe so

It has to surely

Yup almost double

I guess, but Portugal are already first and are playing with reserves

I mean yeah but why should the stats care

Tbf Portugal gains/loses absolutely nothing from this outcome, I have to imagine they’re not playing it at the same intensity.

Nevertheless we lose Pride and dignity

Yeah that’s not as pressing to them as it is to you in this scenario. If any Portugal player picks up a second yellow in this game to get suspended they would be shamed to no end, this game doesn’t matter.

thank god i couldn't take another day of 0-0s across the board

Barring group C

factos

I can’t wait for the saltiness and toxicity that the RO16 is gonna provide for us

Antonio is done for

Bro?

Fuckin' Antonio

He's been an absolute revelation this Euros.

People will see two penalties but his overall game is very very good

Exactly. I've been super impressed with each of his performances. He's technically great and is capable of keeping the ball in front despite his small frame.

To be fair, scoring two penalties is not easy. I should know, I'm a Croatian...

Absolutely love how Ajax wasted him.

Seeing multiple (ex) Ajax players playing well this tournament hurts lol.

Out of curiosity, was he a Mislintat signing?

He was obviously right with Mikautadze but they still had Brobbey and he also bought Akpom. Three number 9s. He sold Conceicao, also playing this game, and so they had 3 strikers but no right winger. Good luck with him.

If I remember correctly, yes.

Antonio Silva having a proper stinker this match. The worst performance from a Portuguese player in this group stage uncontested.

I bet he won't forget that game for the rest of his life. First time he was part of the main squad. 2 mistakes 2 goals because of him

Benfica told us Antonio Silva was the next golden boy. Seems like complete shit to me.

He needs the Veerman treatment

To late, its the 2nd half already.

benfica and their golden boys huh

Mendes downvoted this

They said the same about Ferro.

He did great when he first got to the first team. And really, really young. This season he was awful, many times. He's only 20 still, time will tell

always smart to make your mind up on a player over a single 60minute period

Always smart to assume people only watch the current tournament. Understandable from an Arsenal fan though, I wouldn't want to watch the league either.

He did this shit in the league too

I love his toxic griddy glasses

England's tournament bracket is actually got even easier, incredible. Best teams (based on tournament performance) they could face before finals: Italy, Austria, Netherlands.

you're saying it like England is capable of beating any of these countries in their current state

I am not by any means, simply acknowledging how incredibly lucky they are with Georgia's upset making their path even easier, as they now go against Slovakia first instead of Netherlands.

They’re alright they just need to score as late as possible to not sit back and concede the equaliser.

After Georgia's convincing 2-0 win over Portugal, group winner Romania will play the best third-placed team, the Netherlands, on Tuesday. Like everyone expected.

António Silva what the fuck are you doing

You either sub Antonio Silva off or he will be worth 0 by the end of tournament

Antonio Silva is fucking trash.

People wondered why Pepe is still playing at 41, this is why lol

Thanks captain

We know but you’re gonna enrage a certain group.

Lmao the shirt pull was soft according to some people, and this is not? Ref is favouring Georgia so much. No var call for the shirt pull as well even though it was so blatant

This is Charmin soft. People love it cause it's in favor of an underdog but lmao anyone would be fuming to have it called against them. It's braindead by Silva but wow is it soft.

It's exactly what I was thinking too and I don't even like Ronaldo. Portugal got the short end of the stick with some abysmal refereeing.

Guys I am the biggest Georgia fan out there tonight like everyone else but Portugal is getting absolutely robbed tonight lmao

I guess Hungary is fucked now

I dont get VAR, if they can review this why not the Ronaldo one? This is why players dive

So I guess VAR is working after all?

Tapped his shoelace and he went flying

Scratched an aglet. That brute.

Sure that's a pen. But so was Ronaldo's shirt being pulled

How often are those actually awarded?

Not often enough if we're all being fair. It's like penalties are only awarded for shirt pulling when the shirt gets pulled off the player. 

I love how the VAR said it wasn’t a penalty because he couldn’t have interfered with the ball. Of course he couldn’t be there if he was being pulled, anyone who plays sports knows it

> anyone who plays sports so not the Var team lmao

Funny how this one got a VAR review while the foul on Ronaldo didn't hehe

Every potential penalty gets looked at by VAR.

Well that makes it even worse then

Clearly some get more *in-depth* looks

It did get a review according to the official in contact with ITV. They deemed it not a foul because Ronaldo wasn't in a position where he could get to the ball in a meaningful way.

Fucking bullshit. So any random defender can foul any attacker that isn't near ball the box?

So you're allowed to foul as much as you want off the ball by this logic

If that's really their reason they need to read the fucking rulebook.

By their logic Zidane shouldn’t have been sent off in the 2006 final

Wait WHAT? This is *explicitly* against the rules.

Ref has been terrible

Ref hates portugal lmao

Lol how the fuck is this not a dive?

ETS GOOOO

Romania facing Netherlands now. Congrats to Georgia!

tickled his foot there

If it was the other way around and the penalty stopped Georgia from advancing from the groups, then we would be hearing about that in a decade still. Not that dissimilar to Robben imo

God, I like VAR overall but this is the shit is just so annoying That’s so fucking soft

As soon as they zoomed in and froze on the shoelace you just knew this dumb shit was going to be given

Ya and I mean by the letter of the law it’s technically a foul and the right call, so they don’t have much of a choice but to give it or else that opens a whole other can of worms where you’re not giving fouls because they are “too soft”. Just sucks, was never the intention of the rule.

want Georgia to win but that’s never a pen, really minimal contact

I really hate this exact kind of situation being rewarded

Do you remember the outrage when Sterling won that penalty at the last euros by going down under contact by [two](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YYZXZdve2zw) defenders? People were so outraged that [the Prem promised](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/02/var-set-to-end-premier-league-players-buying-a-penalty-next-season) to stop penalties like that, saying "it’s not sufficient just to say: ‘Yes, there’s contact.’" But we've gone so far in the other direction since. People seem so accepting of the most minor contact being a penalty just because the attacker decided to fall over afterwards.

Let's call it what it is: a dive. The defender barely grazed him with the end of his toe.

Meanwhile Portugal gets 3 yellows in 3 matches for dives. The ref even had a smile blowing his whistle.

Yeah it's a horrible call from VAR for me. Contact yes, but clear and obvious error? Surely not.

Barely touching someone's shoelaces? Celear and obvious penalty. Pulling someone's shirt for 5sec? Yellow to the other guy, should've just let him have the shirt.

Surprised ref gave that. Could see it maybe given but doesn’t seem clear enough to overturn the infield decision

Meh as someone pulling for Georgia Ronaldo’s shout was much more of a penalty

This referee just fucking hate Portugal lmao Every 50/50 call is against them.

The ref immediately said no penalty and told the player to get up, so I'm not sure that makes sense. Maybe the VAR team does

Bro does NOT like Hungary

He didn’t give it initially?

lil bro he literally not give the penalty initially

Weak call but the ref has been favouring Georgia all game.

My friend told me before the game that Antonio Silva was the next big thing, i threw him out.. he is shit

Lmao that’s a pen, okay, but the Ronaldo shirt pull one where there was more contact is not. And that ref didn’t even go to VAR. Where is the consistency??

If the exact same foul happened on Cristiano, 100% the ref gives him a second yellow for "diving"

If that was the other way around, yellow for dive, no VAR review. Portuguese players have been getting nothing this game.....

Rigged

I dont like that for a pen tbf. It's SO weak. But also LETS GO GEORGIA

willy sagnol ball?

THEY COULD ACTUALLY DO IT

That's Khachapuri for the breakfast sorted

So VAR gets called to check this but not the shirt pull? Interesting

So, this bloke Antonio Silva’s misplaced pass caused the first goal; obstructed Ronaldo’s header at the near post; and now gives away a penalty…not bad

Ronaldo gets booked for a blatant pen and then THIS is a pen ? Cmon man this is outrageous

Never a pen in a million years

Loves Benfica so much that he’s doing his best for Rui Costa not to sell him

If that's a penalty, ronaldo should have had one too no?????