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Turkey vs Portugal Prediction & Betting tips
On Saturday at 17:00, the Signal Iduna Park stadium in Dortmund will host a new match from Euro 2024, Turkey will face Portugal in a match from group F, where Georgia and the Czech Republic are also located. It will be the 4th direct confrontation between the two national teams at the European Championship after the meetings at Euro 1996, Euro 2000 and Euro 2008. All the confrontations were won by Portugal and the most spectacular match is the one at Euro 2000, where the two they met in the quarter-finals, and Portugal won 2-0. The other two matches took place in the groups and Portugal won 1-0 in 96 and 2-0 at Euro 2008. The most recent match took place in the 2022 World Cup play-offs where Portugal won 3-1 . Turkey won only once against Portugal, in a friendly match played in 2012.
Turkey:
Turkey started this final tournament very well and settled in first place in group F, thanks to the 3-1 victory recorded against Georgia, a debutant national team at the Euros. Turkey qualified for Euro 2024 from the position of winner of group D in the preliminaries, where they faced Croatia, a nation that is almost eliminated from this final tournament, Wales, Armenia and Latvia. In the friendly matches played before Euro 2024, Turkey did not look very good, registering only a white draw, score 0-0 in the company of Italy, being defeated in the last friendly by Poland with 2-1, Poland which is the first national team eliminated by at Euro 2024, but also by Austria with 6-1 and Hungary with 1-0. In the last match of the group, Turkey will face the Czech Republic.
Portugal:
On the other hand, Portugal sets new records at this European championship, having the oldest players, Pepe at 40 and Ronaldo at 39. In the first match in the group, Portugal had great emotions with the Czech Republic, managing to score the winning goal in the 92nd minute through Francisco Conceicao, FC Porto’s midfielder being the son of Portugal’s former great defender, Sergio Conceicao. Portugal was the record team in the preliminaries where they scored maximum points in group J, managing to win all ten games against opponents like Slovakia, Iceland or Bosnia. Portugal aims for first place in this final tournament as well, and in the two situations when it met Turkey, it also won the group each time. Portugal’s last match in the group is considered an easy one because it will face Georgia.
Turkey vs Portugal head to head matches
24.03.22 WC Portugal vs Turkey 3:1
02.06.12 FI Portugal vs Turkey 1:3
07.06.08 EUR Portugal vs Turkey 2:0
24.06.00 EUR Turkey vs Portugal 0:2
14.06.96 EUR Portugal vs Turkey 1:0
* Our advice is: BTS / YES
* Selection odd for this bet is: 1.80
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Source of photo: Uefa.com Euro 2024
