Playing at home, Portugal beats the Czech Republic team, achieves an important victory and takes the lead in Group A of the Nations League
This Thursday, 9th, Portugal and Czech republic faced each other, at Estádio José Alvalade, in Lisbon, for the third round of the Nations League group stage. With the support of their fans, the Portuguese managed to be superior almost the entire first half, opening 2-0 and only needed to manage the score in the final stage to come out with the victory.
RANKS:
PORTUGAL: Diogo Costa; Cancelo, Pepe, Danilo and Guerreiro; William Carvalho, Gonçalo Guedes and Rúben Neves; Bernardo, Diogo Jota and Cristiano Ronaldo // CZECH REPUBLIC: Stanek; Zima, Brabec and Mateju; Coufal, Soucek, Sadilek and Havel; Lingr, Hlozek and Kuchta.
CHANNEL – ATHLETISTIC:
THE GAME!
With its strong supporters at Estádio José Alvalade, the Portuguese team dominated the Czech Republic from the start of the game. In the midst of wasted chances by the Portuguese, the visitors managed to take real danger only in the 30th minute, when Lingr served Kuchta at the edge of the area, the striker fixed it and kicked across, but stopped in a great defense by Diogo Costa.
But the Portuguese party started minutes later, at 33, when Cancelo opened the scoring for the home team! The Manchester City side scored with his colleague Bernardo Silva and received on the right wing, where he was very easy to invade the area and fill his foot, in a cross kick, to swell the nets and open the score: 1 to 0!
The advantage was even greater at 38, when Gonçalo Guedes expanded! In another move with the participation of Bernardo Silva, shirt 10 received on the right wing and gave a beautiful assist to the Valencia striker inside the area, who only needed to finish cross to see the ball die inside the goal: 2 to 0 for Portugal at the end of the first stage!
⏸ Great first part! It’s to continue! 👊 #Let’s Go WithEverything
🇵🇹 2-0 🇨🇿 pic.twitter.com/SnRQTBvzWw
— Portugal (@selecaoportugal) June 9, 2022
In the second half, the best chances for the Czech Republic came after mistakes by the Portuguese defense. In the 14th minute, Guerreiro missed a pass after a short corner kick and the Czechs started on the counterattack. Jurecka received it on the right, invaded the area and kicked it across, but the ball went out to the left of Diogo Costa’s goal!
In the next move Portugal went to the attack. Gonçalo Guedes crossed from the right, the defense cleared it and Diogo Jota dominated the leftover, took it to the middle, and kicked hard, but Stanek spread the ball. Then, at 24, it was Cristiano Ronaldo’s turn to receive from the left and shoot low, but he stopped in a new save by the Czech goalkeeper!
Until, in the 40th minute, Rúben Neves played wrong, Vlkanova steals the ball, entered the area free of charge from the left side and finished with a left-handed shot, but ended up sending it out, wasting the Czech Republic’s last chance to decrease: 2 to 0 on the scoreboard. Final!
Source: sportbuzz
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