Russia - Portugal

Russia - Portugal
Confederations Cup, Group Phase
Start: Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 6 pm

The Confederations Cup tournament continues with the extremely interesting clash between the teams of Russia and Portugal. The pressure is definitely on Portugal, which failed to win in the first round, while Russia was flawless.
"Sbornaya" started the campaign with an expected win over New Zealand by 2-0. After this victory, the team was in Group A, as the rest of the players in Mexico and Portugal remained with only a point in their assets.
Certainly, the Mexico-Portugal match surprised the final result after "seafarers" put a great deal of pressure on their opponent in the first half and even canceled their goal after a video repeat. In the end with a goal in the added time Mexico did not allow a loss and now Portugal will have to look for obligatory success over Russia, as Mexico will hardly be wrong against New Zealand.
Portugal definitely have problems, especially defense problems, which is why they are already racing against a strong rival for a third time. While defeating weaker rivals such as Gibraltar and Cyprus, the "selesao" is losing to Sweden and Belgium, with their statistics for the past 10 matches including Euro 2016 being 7 wins, 2 losses and one Equality.
Portugal defeated Russia three times in the past six meetings between them. In Russia, however, Sbornaya has no loss as a host, and managed to keep its network dry in all three households.
Portugal definitely have a lot of talented and classy footballers, and in addition, Santos's stand bench is also a respect, something we can not say about Russia. Russia, however, is playing as a real team and the real game is precisely on the pitch where we will see a real battle and invariably at least a goal in the door of both teams!