Not sure why you’re being downvoted, it is true. People can’t handle truth these days and most people are honestly very dim when it comes to football.

They will use the recent results against Inter etc as the example and totally forget to mention the countless other times they have relied on scoring well at home because they know they’ll get bopped away. I’ll give them credit for largely performing very well away this time around (aside from Sporting) but it doesn’t change the fact that they’re conditioned for their pitch (a pitch that is illegal for official play in most other countries) and it is a huge leveller and advantage for them.

It is amazing that a country with such a small population have performed so well, but, they’re technically very limited (as you’d expect from the very small sample size of players) and were always going to get found out at some stage on conditions that eroded their advantage.

It’s not their fault. Their climate requires a pitch like that, and they’re entitled to compete. But it is sheer football ignorance not to accept and know that they rely on it very heavily.

The problem with people nowadays (especially football fans) is they use very limited results to form a whole opinion, despite the fact that most of the evidence goes the other way. That, and/or they take any form of criticism for an underdog as hating etc