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🔥 Portugal 1–1 DR Congo — 75% of the ball, the lower xG, and a method Martínez still hasn't found

Group Stage · NRG Stadium, Houston · June 17 · Full time

Portugal walked off with three-quarters of the ball, one shot on target, and an expected-goals total lower than the team that spent the night camped on its own edge of the box. That inversion — territory won, danger lost — is the structural fingerprint of the evening. The argument it kicks off is not whether Ronaldo should have started. It is whether Portugal has any way of playing when his presence doesn't resolve the final third.

TL;DR — DR Congo outshot Portugal 8-7 and finished with higher xG. Martínez kept Ronaldo on for 90 minutes and substituted four other players. The tabloid frame is "was Ronaldo the problem?" — the actual fight is "what has Portugal built around him?" Three disputes below, the one number nobody's using, and — for the first time — a Congolese voice that may be the sharpest read of all.

🔥 France's "easy" game tonight — why swapping three players has French football arguing again

Group I · France vs Iraq · Philadelphia · Monday 22 June, 21:00 UTC

On paper this should be a stress-free night. France are tournament favorites; Iraq are the group's weakest side, already beaten 4-1 by Norway in their opener. The kind of match a big team wins on cruise control.

So why is French football arguing about it? Because Didier Deschamps — France's longtime head coach, a man who won the World Cup as both a player and a manager — is expected to swap in three fresh players. That sounds like simple squad rotation. In France, it never is. Every team-sheet change gets read as a message: who the coach really trusts, who's slipping, and whether France's much-hyped squad depth is real or just talk.

TL;DR — Deschamps is set to make three changes against a weak opponent. One camp says: good, finally test the backups against a real team. Another says: a sloppy night lets Iraq write the story

date	election	femmesElues	hommesElus
22/06/1960	Élection générale	0	95
14/11/1962	Élection générale	1	94
05/06/1966	Élection générale	1	107
29/04/1970	Élection générale	1	107
29/10/1973	Élection générale	1	109
15/11/1976	Élection générale	5	105
13/04/1981	Élection générale	8	114
02/12/1985	Élection générale	18	104
25/09/1989	Élection générale	23	102

date	election	femmesElues
14/11/1962	Élection générale	1
05/06/1966	Élection générale	1
29/04/1970	Élection générale	1
29/10/1973	Élection générale	1
15/11/1976	Élection générale	5
13/04/1981	Élection générale	8
02/12/1985	Élection générale	18
25/09/1989	Élection générale	23
12/09/1994	Élection générale	23

	Entity,Code,Year,Life expectancy - Sex: all - Age: 0 - Variant: estimates,"GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $)",Population (historical),World regions according to OWID
	Afghanistan,AFG,1950,28.156,,7776182,
	Afghanistan,AFG,1951,28.584,,7879343,
	Afghanistan,AFG,1952,29.014,,7987783,
	Afghanistan,AFG,1953,29.452,,8096703,
	Afghanistan,AFG,1954,29.698,,8207953,
	Afghanistan,AFG,1955,30.366,,8326981,
	Afghanistan,AFG,1956,30.83,,8454302,
	Afghanistan,AFG,1957,31.345,,8588340,
	Afghanistan,AFG,1958,31.84,,8723412,

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