Don't worry, even without Ronaldo, Portugal is still more than capable of beating Bosnia. We need to play the way we know we can. Without any doubt the best starting 11 Queiroz can use against the Bosnians is...

-----------------Eduardo-------------
Miguel---Carvalho--Alves---Veloso
-----------------Pepe----------------
Simao---Meireles---Deco---Nani
----------------Almeida-----------

This is not the best portuguese team, but with so many injuries and the massive height advantage of bosnia, Portugal must use Almeida over liedson and veloso over duda. I read that bosingwa along with ronaldo will also not be able to play so miguel needs to play well in order for us to win. The key is to win by 2 or 3 goals so we can relax more in bosnia.

I am disgusted in some of the comments I have read. This is no doubt a LOSS for the team! However, we can pull together and get the results we need.

Ronaldo is best player in the world and I think is better for him to not play those playoffs.
It will be very dangerous for his health to play specialy in Zenica
wish him fast recovering.
And I welcome Portguese fans to come to Bosnia

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This truly is unfortunate for Real Madrid and football in general, but especially for Portugal. Everyone keeps saying Portugal don't need him but since when is Portugal so talented that they don't need a player of Ronaldo's calibre? I think that's pretty arrogant to say that Portugal don't need him. RM definitely need him, they look lost in attack without him. He has only been with them a short time but it is obvious that he will be their trigger man just like he was for Manchester United.
The good news is that Deco is playing well and Almeida returned to Werder Bremen today with style, scoring their second goal in the Europa League as they won 2-0. Makukula is also looking good down in the Turkish Super Lig and if Nani and Simao can keep contributing, I think Portugal will still go through to the World Cup.
Nani has really been struggling through so that kinda worries me because he'll be the one playing in Ronaldo's place against Bosnia.

We can manage with out him.Deco and all the other guys looking prty good these days(accept Nani).Almaida recovery is not going according plan but he might recover before the 2nd play off.
Best of luck Selesco!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You Can Do it

Im love football but it gets me upest how there r so many injuries..especially on good players!...portugal definitely need ronaldo and it looks like we wont have him...so the other players have 2 step up like nani and almeida and simao to score goals....i like real madrid but for some reason without ronaldo i cant really get excited for their games because they look sloppy and unappealing without him..i hope he recovers soon because as of right now portugal, madrid, and football itself are missing and needing him

What a sad miss it would be to fans of the game, Real Madrid and Portugal. Hope he recovers quickly.

Bosnians helped pay Brujo Pepe to hurt CRonaldo. It's ok though, as long as he plays actual WC, we will be fine. I think by calling up Meira and Almeida, we should be ok. We play better, I think, without him on the pitch for now. The Bosnians are talking a lot of crap, and they have a great team. It's gonna be great two games.