Chelsea Fut 14 Coins bound Scolari's reign
Chelsea Fut 14 Coins bound Scolari's reign as Portugal coach came to anend with a 3-2 quarter-final defeat by Germany, whose third Fifa Ultimate Team Coins goalwas headed in by Michael Ballack after what some Portugal playersbelieved was a push in the back of Paulo Ferreira.That gave the Germans a 3-1 lead when Portugal were pressing foran equaliser and Scolari said the Swedish official should havespotted the foul, although he admitted that his side had also madeerrors in their defending of the set-pieces which led to two of thethree goals they conceded.
We thought Germany would be first in the group and asfirst in our group we would not face them until the semis, Scolari said. Germany came second and we had to face a teamwith quality, especially on free-kicks which decided the game.
What went wrong? The dead ball situations for one, andthere were other things that did not go correctly. We haddesignated certain players to mark Ballack and others but theplayers changed who they were marking on the free-kicks and Germanymade the most of that.
On the controversial third goal, Scolari said: I do notwant to say Germany benefitted from that but all the TV screensshow Ballack pushed our player. Unfortunately the referee did notsee it and we stopped.