Portugal vs. Croatia Tips & Quotas, Sep 05, 2020 – 08:45 PM
The national football teams from Portugal and Croatia will meet at the Estadio do Dragao in Porto on Saturday evening, 05.09.2020 at 20:45, on the 1st day of the Nations-League-Group A3. The incumbent European champion was able to win the NL 1-0 last year in the final against Holland and was the very first winner of UEFA’s new competition to be included in the history books. The Vatreni were relegated from the A4 League. The group’s opponents England and Spain prevailed in the end. The expansion of the A-Leagues from twelve to 16 teams prevented the vice world champion’s sporting relegation afterwards.
(Quotas updated: Sep 03, 2020 – 10:07 AM)
The national team of Fernando Santos played the last international match in November 2019 in the European Championships qualification in Luxembourg. The European champion played the favourite role and won 2-0 through the goals of Bruno Fernandes (39th) and Cristiano Ronaldo (86th). This made the Selecao harder in group B than necessary. Until the last day of the match, qualification for the upcoming European Championships was in danger. In a group with Ukraine (20 points), Serbia (14), Luxembourg (4) and Lithuania (1), only second place with 17 points was enough. The direct EM qualification was nevertheless achieved in the quite simple group.
The Santos elf has won five of the last six international matches and has suffered only one defeat in that period. The only bankruptcy during the European Championship qualification took place on the 6th day of the match in Ukraine (1:2). Against the group winner, even on the first day of the match, no threesome (0:0) succeeded in front of the home scene. The final games in the Nations League were considerably better with the 3-1 victory in the semi-finals against Switzerland and the subsequent final victory against the Netherlands (1-0).
Portugal scored 22 goals in the European Championships. Most of them scored superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, of course. The forward of Juventus Turin scored 11 goals in eight games. Bernado Silva was the second best sniper in the Portuguese national team to enter the scoring list just three times. CR7 was even the second best Goalgetter in the current competition. Only England’s Harry Kane with 12 stalls was even more accurate.
Latest matches from Portugal
Portugal: 4 wins – 0 draws – 1 defeat
(Status: 31.08.2020)
The Eastern Europeans were already determined as group winners before the last match day of the European Championship qualifying group E and were free to play on the 10th game day. A few days earlier, the vice world champion played the last game in mid-November last year in his own stadium against Slovakia. At first it didn’t look so good after the first 45 minutes. The guests went through Bolzano after a little more than half an hour with 1:0 in front (32nd). After the break tea the Vatreni turned the game and took the lead with 2:1 by the double blow of Vlasic (56th) and B. Petkovic (60th). When six minutes later Slovak Mak had to leave the course prematurely with yellow-red, the home team had easy play (66th). Perisic scored the final goal for the 3-1 final (74th).
The Dalic elf has been unbeaten for six consecutive international matches and won four wins in that period. The only bankruptcy in the European Championship qualifying was on the second day of the match in Hungary (1-2). After the eight match days in the quite simple group, it was expected to be enough for number one with 17 points. Hungary (12), Wales (11), Slovakia (10) and Azerbaijan (1) fought for second place.
International players Bruno Petkovic (4 goals), Ivan Perisic and Nikola Vlasic with three goals each scored ten of Croatia’s 17 goals in the European Championships.
Latest games from Croatia
Croatia: 3 wins – 2 draws – 0 losses
4 victories Portugal – 1 draw – 0 victories Croatia
We see Portugal in the favourite role against Croatia in our own stadium. The squad of the European champion and defending champion of the Nations League is also somewhat better positioned. Both national teams had feasible groups in the EM qualification and qualified for THE EURO 2021 in this way as well. The Vatreni convinced in the qualifying games a little more than the Selecao, which had to tremble for the EURO until the very end. In Porto, you can look forward to the form of the two teams, who have not played international football for a long time due to the ongoing corona crisis. We are predicting a close victory for the Santos Elf with few goals in the Estadio do Dragao. For this tip forecast we favor the 3-way bets on Portugal wins. For this purpose, the online betting providers provide betting odds on average around 1.83 to 1.87.
Bet Tip Bundesliga trend: Portugal wins
Wettquote bei Unibet*: 1.87 (Odds: 03.09.2020, 10:07 Uhr)
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