“Then I told him, ‘You’re going to stop these shots and we’re going to win’.”Ricardo, who unusually was not wearing gloves, saved a penalty from Darius Vassell with the score level at 5-5, then converted the spot-kick that sent the hosts into the last four.Eusebio, a former Benfica player, was among the first to race on to the Luz stadium pitch to embrace Ricardo, who plays for Benfica’s Lisbon rivals Sporting.”He told me, ‘Thanks, King’. I told him, ‘Thanks, no, you’re a rival, but here’s the national flag,” said Eusebio.. “It was a very emotional game and some people had this kind of reaction,” the spokesman said.The Portuguese footballing great Eusebio revealed yesterday that he had given some advice to the team’s goalkeeper, Ricardo Oliveira, before the penalty shoot-out.The European footballer of the year from 1965 said he approached Ricardo and repeated a tip that had been passed on to him by the late Soviet Union goalkeeper Lev Yashin.”Stay still and look at the player,” Eusebio said. Even babies were watching,” said Gaillard.Medics had to treat about 130 fans for fainting and anxiety attacks during that match, a spokesman for the emergency medical service said yesterday. Two supporters at the 65,000-seat Estadio da Luz stadium were treated for more serious heart conditions during the match. If the increasing popularity of sports bars and giant screens was taken into account the figures would be higher still.”We are really getting figures that we have never seen,” said Gaillard.

“All records are being beaten.” The live audience for games involving a market’s home team is up 38.4 per cent and the figures for games involving other countries rose 12.5 per cent.No figures are available yet for Portugal’s penalty shoot-out victory over England in the first quarter-final on Thursday night but those are expected to break records too “I don’t think anyone missed that game last night. In three-and-a-half years we have lost three competitive games [to Brazil in 2002, and France and Portugal this month] and the way we have lost them [Ronaldinho's goal, Zidane's injury-time goals, and penalties] the difference between winning and losing is nothing.” Eriksson had no further comment to make on the issue of the moving penalty spot, except to reiterate he had complained three times before the game. He added: “There is no point in complaining now.” Bevington nevertheless indicated the FA were likely to refer to the issue in their post-finals report to the sport’s European ruling body, Uefa. Eriksson was also relatively sanguine about Sol Campbell’s disallowed injury-time “goal” “Everyone makes mistakes, maybe that was one,” he said “I thought it was a goal Looking at it afterwards on TV I feel it was a goal.

Eriksson added: “I told them we have showed we are very close to winning a tournament. The former England left-arm paceman Alan Mullally earned 6 for 68 while the Australian Phil Jaques recorded his highest score, 243 Hampshire had limped to 202 for 6 by the close.. As Mark Palios [the chief executive] said last week, we believe he is the best man for the job. We believe he will deliver the goods for England.”Eriksson added: “I think I have the support of the players.