I dont disagree, but i also have to judge him by what he does and what he doesnt do. If he makes mistakes on his own and is culpable of poor defending, we have to say it. It's mitigated by the fact that the system and Alba left him open, but it's still a bit of a stinker.

On the other hand, i wont shower guys like Hummels and Badstuber as much as some do because their teams defend a lot better as a whole, and it's al;ways easier to double team an attacker than to go on 1v1 against him. But even then, they have looked more assured in my opinion.

I give more credits to guys like Agger and Pepe who are in suspect teams and have to carry a lot on their own.

Agger deserves more credit than Pepe IMO..... Agger is by himself lol.

Yes Portugal's midfield is shat defensively but atleast Pepe has Coentrao, Alves and Pereira alongside him in the back 4 in fact its probably one of the better defenses.

Pepe has been great apart from losing Bendtner for one of the goals but lets not pretend he's keeping Portugal's defence afloat by himself.

I like how everyone is concealing some of Pepe's costly mistakes within the tournament.

Whats more funny (and tragic) is how they single out Pepe as the sole tower in the central defensive line and don't even mention Bruno Alves who has been an absolute beast.

Alves I would say has been even better than Pepe the butcher.

pepe at fault for 2 goals... alves>him in the euro (just in the euro,because hes shet)

So far its Debuchy-Hummels-Agger-Lahm IMO.

Pepe made some mistakes, and so did most CBs in the tourney. He dropped his marking on two occasions on Gomez and Bendy, and they took a goal each time.

But i also recall Gomez blistering past Agger but failing to finish properly. Or RVP consistently getting in the back of Hummels on through balls but fluffing the finish.

same kind of mistakes, whether the attacker finishes is something else enterely.

Pepe could do nothing about Gomez's goal. He was easily going to clear that cross until the ball took an unfortunate deflection leaving Pepe nowhere. You can't blame him for that.

For Bendy even Alves was caught out and he should have been marking Dennish Rommedahl who cut the ball back and Denmark scored.

Yes Pepe is not carrying their defense and all credit should not go to him, but lets not pile every goal Portugal concede on him and he has been a beast and certainly better than Alves so far. Pretty sure he has made more tackles, interceptions and blocks than Alves. Well from an eye test it seems that way. Some stats might help.
Lets not forget he scored a crucial goal as well.

Agger & Hummels are hands down the 2 best CB's in the tournament. Pepe is nowhere near. He is above average,good maybe,that is it. Nothing impressive.

Well, he still impressed me, but that's only because a lot of defenses have looked bad.

Badstuber has played better than any CB in this Euro tournament, next to him is Hummels.


it's not surprising that Real Madrid fans are here to praise the likes of Ramos who have played against defensive teams like Italy, and pathetic Ireland. even with that, their performance can't and doesn't still match Badstubers performance playing against much more stronger teams like Holland, Portugal and Denmark.

I repeat even with that their performance doesn't still match that of Badstuber.

I was just thinking that again Ramos and Pepe performance doesn't match that of Badstuber, on a second thought my worth as a football analysis is less than 50cent and yet I can come into a conclusion that their performance doesn't match that of Badstuber




I don't want to mention Pepe because he doesn't belong here, he's far behind especially when you take into consideration how Mario Gomez raped him.

and lets not forget that their performance doesn't equal that of Badstuber and also it was C.Ronaldo who destroyed Holland but before that lets remember that Gomez has already blew them apart, but what I'm most concerned with and want to point out, is that it was Boateng who kept C.Ronaldo in his pocket when they played Germany.


Taking all this into consideration I'm force to agree with stats and expect that this is the best defensive line-up so far in this competition.

---------------Neuer----------------
Boateng-Hummels-Badstuber-Lahm

Honorary mention: Agger, Bender and that's that.

The Messiah wrote:Badstuber has played better than any CB in this Euro tournament, next to him is Hummels.


it's not surprising that Real Madrid fans are here to praise the likes of Ramos who have played against defensive teams like Italy, and pathetic Ireland. even with that, their performance can't and doesn't still match Badstubers performance playing against much more stronger teams like Holland, Portugal and Denmark.


I don't want to mention Pepe because he doesn't belong here, he's far behind especially when you take into consideration how Mario Gomez raped him.

and lets not forget it was C.Ronaldo who destroyed Holland but before that lets remember that Gomez has already blew them apart, but what I'm most concerned with and want to point out, is that it was Boateng who kept C.Ronaldo in his pocket when they played Germany.


Taking all this into consideration I'm force to agree with stats and expect that this is the best defensive line-up so far in this competition.

--------------------Neuer----------------
Boateng-Hummels-Badstuber-Lahm

Honorary mention: Agger, Bender and that's that.

at least you admit you are biased

The Messiah

Denmark much stronger than Italy, I agree