Renato Veiga

Aerially, it was a different story, with only Ben Cabango and Kieffer Moore winning 100% of their duels, two each.

Renato Veiga, who had been a colossus at the back for Portugal, winning four of his five headed duels and completing 95.9% of his passes, the second most of any player on the pitch, had the final effort of an exciting opening 45 minutes.

Ronaldo somehow opened the second half by putting his shot over the bar, despite being unmarked in the Welsh six-yard area, though he would soon celebrate a goal, or so he thought, VAR ruling it out for offside.

Ward deserves credit for his performance on the night, making four saves across the 90 minutes and commanding his area well.

Uh, I don't recall the last time a keeper from Benfica from Porto and from Spartan were all called up to, uh, to one national team.

Um, at one time, uh, that'll be very interesting to see there other than, I mean, we know that deal of course is going to be the number one there, but, uh, On defense, Ruben Dias, João Concelo, Nuno Mendes, Diogo Dalot, Gonçalo Inácio, Renato Veiga, Tomás Araujo, and Nuno Tavares.

He returns.

He's playing at Lazio.

Yeah.

Then they have, uh, Renato Veiga, uh, Carlos Romero, Alex Freeman, um, Mourinho, uh, Guanfoi.

Guanfoi.

Um, and I think that's their key defenders.

This one finishes Brugge to Aston Villa three at the Signal in Guna park in Dortmund, Borussia hosting Villarreal.

And, uh, The Germans would score first, an own goal credited to the Portuguese Renato Veiga, the Portugal International World Cup veteran.

Renato Veiga redirects the ball into his own goal.

It's 1-0 Dortmund in the 53rd minute.

Now, after that, the match would pick up quite a bit because in the 66th minute, Santiago Mourinho, a 24-year-old Uruguayan, would level for Villarreal.

These are a bunch of players that I think are, like, good but not great.

Uh, Renato Veiga I think is pretty good.

He's a, he's a player that starts for them, but, like, beyond that, I guess I think Sergi Cardona's a very good player.

I will say that.

Uh, even at the end of the season, like, if Karazis makes the jump that I think Borussia Dortmund thinks, he'll be better.

Mm-hmm.

Um, Svensson and, and Sergi Cardona are, like, very close, so you, you essentially have our third choice, or third starting center back is the only player that you wouldn't take over Renato Veiga.

Um, it, uh, I guess that assumes Schlotterbeck's fit, so I guess you could say he's better than two of our center backs, but we're playing our, like, fifth choice center back, whatever.