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Portugal vs Czech Republic Prediction & Betting tips
Tuesday evening from 20:00, the last match of the first round of Euro 2024 will be played, with Portugal facing the Czech Republic. The two teams are part of group F, the last from Euro 2024, where Turkey and Georgia are also. It will be the fourth direct confrontation at the Euro between the two teams, after the confrontations at Euro 1996, Euro 2008 and Euro 2012, and what is interesting is the fact that two of the three confrontations took place in the quarter-finals, in 1996 Czech Republic achieving a 1-0 victory, while at Euro 2012 Portugal won 1-0. Between these two confrontations, at Euro 2008, Portugal won 3-1 in the groups. Apart from these three Euro matches, Portugal and the Czech Republic met again in the UEFA Nations League in 2022, and both games were won by Portugal, 2-0 at home in the round and 4-0 away in the return leg.
Portugal:
Portugal, the European champion from 2016, returns to a new final tournament and wants at least a qualification in the final, where they played in 2004 when they lost the tournament hosted by them at home, in front of the surprise Greece. In the preliminaries, Portugal played perfectly and was the only national team that won all matches, no less than 10 in number, having the best attack in the preliminaries with 36 goals scored but also the best defense with only 2 goals conceded . Portugal also had a fairly accessible group, finishing Slovakia in 2nd place with 22 points, followed by Luxembourg, Iceland, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Liechtenstein. The surprise came in the friendly matches played before the final tournament, Portugal being defeated by Slovenia 2-0 and by Croatia 2-1. In the last scheduled friendly match, Portugal defeated Ireland 3-0.
Czech Republic:
The Czech Republic will mark the 8th consecutive final tournament of the Euro, since the country won its independence and broke away from Slovakia. When they were a single country, Czechoslovakia managed to win the European title in 1976. The Czech Republic was very close to repeating this success even at the first participation after separation at Euro 1996, when they played the final at the Wembley stadium in England, but they lost to Germany, even though they had opened the scoring in the 59th minute with a shot from 11m by Berger, but Germany managed to come back with the goal scored by Bierhoff in the 73rd minute, so that later, the same Bierhoff scored in the 95th minute, the golden goal, a rule of those times, the first team to score in overtime wins the match. Coming back to the present, the Czech Republic occupied the 2nd place in group E, after Albania but in front of Poland, Moldova and the Faroe Islands. The Czech Republic scheduled four friendly matches before the final tournament, managing to win them all, the clearest success being the one against Malta at home, score 7-1.
Portugal vs Czech Republic head to head matches
24.09.22 UNL Czech Republic vs Portugal 0:4
09.06.22 UNL Portugal vs Czech Republic 2:0
21.06.12 EUR Czech Republic vs Portugal 0:1
11.06.08 EUR Czech Republic vs Portugal 1:3
23.06.96 EUR Czech Republic vs Portugal 1:0
* Our advice is: Portugal WIN
* Selection odd for this bet is: 1.50
* This analyis is from our perspective and we highly recommend to inform also yourself about all details that can be decisive in your choise to bet!
Source of photo: Uefa.com Euro 2024
