Croatia is currently better than Portugal
Croatia is currently better than Portugal
In Saturday night from 22:00 today at the stadium "Felix Bolar" in Lance will see Eighthfinal clash of Euro 2016 between teams of Croatia and Portugal. Both teams have great performers and waiting for us a great spectacle and the winner of this meeting will be able to confront Switzerland or Poland in the quarterfinals.
Croatia won their group D, as Spain battled for first position. The Croats won 2-1 in heads and thus won his match against Portugal. "Chess players" impress many of this European, the main force and engine of the team's midline. There Croatia has very good players who seem to work perfectly well together in the national team. The big absentee for Ante Cacic's Luka Modric. He did not took part in the victory over Spain, but until recently would think about his participation in the match with Portugal. Mario Mandzukic also has a mild problems such as its involvement in this Eighthfinal collision is more likely than that of Modric. However, Croatia has shown it can win without those two star players, but of course their presence on the field would be of great benefit. Midline of "chess" will probably be composed of Rakitic, Perisic and Milan Baden, but Pyatsa Marco and Mateo Kovacic can also start holders.
Portugal only managed to qualify to the second round because began their matches in Group F with 2 draws in the last meeting with Hungary 3 times had to equalize the final 3-3. So with 3 points earned, Portugal is ranked first as one of the best third teams at Euro 2016. Portugal and in three games dominated the attack, looking for goals, create more points than the opponent, but Ronaldo and company failed to win a match . Problematic unit in the composition of Fernando Santos was defense, because Pepe and Ricardo Carvalho are very experienced players, but at times they simply expired and have no strength to racing, especially when it comes to Carvalho. Other alternatives are central defenders Bruno Alves and Jose Fonte, so Santos is no better choice. Rafa Gereyro is questionable for this match, and Andre Gomes. All others are healthy and many will rely on three in attack Ronaldo, Nani and Quaresma, fail to materialize situations that create.
In three previous matches Portugal has won 3 wins against teams of Croatia, so that "chess players" will chase victory in this match to stop this negative series. The last time the two teams played in 2013, when they met in a friendly match and Portugal won by the minimum 1-0. Cristiano Ronaldo is undoubtedly the biggest star in the ranks of Portugal and will be very interesting how would oppose the protection of the Croats, but now Croatia seemed much better prepared team that can beat anyone. The strength in the center of the Croats is very large, and the problems in defense for Portugal may fail them. Our team predicts victory for Croatia in this game because the Croats play very good football and proved that they can get ahead in the race.
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