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Ukraine Portugal Prediction & Betting tips
The European Championship qualifying match between Ukraine and Portugal is scheduled for Monday evening at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev. The home country is in excellent shape and needs a draw to secure her starting ticket for next year’s European Championship. Portugal is also in good shape, but the South Europeans need a good result to keep neighboring Serbian at bay.
Ukraine:
Andriy Shevchenko was of course a gifted football player, but the former top striker is also doing great as a national coach. Since its appointment, roughly three years ago, Ukraine has been doing fantastic. With no less than sixteen points from six games – and that in a tough group with Portugal and Serbia among others – Ukraine can hardly miss the European Championship qualification. A great achievement, since Ukraine has qualified twice for a major tournament since its independence.
Ukraine is therefore full of confidence, and again underlined its good form last Friday by simply putting Lithuania aside 2-0 via two goals from Ruslan Malinovskyi. Shevchenko has a nose for good attackers because of his past, but also the defense of the Ukrainians stands with just one goal in six European Championship qualifiers. If goalkeeper Andiy Pyatov manages to keep his goal clean again on Monday evening and Ukraine therefore takes at least one point against Portugal, European Championship qualification is definitely a fact.
Portugal:
Of course, Portugal wants to defend its European title next year, but it is still far from certain that we will see Cristiano Ronaldo and associates in action at the European Championship next year. With a second place in group B, the southern Europeans are in good shape, but in the event of a defeat in Kiev, number three Serbia will have the chance to reduce the backlog to just one point. The interests for Portugal are huge on Monday evening.
In any case, Portugal can travel to Ukraine full of confidence, as Luxembourg was set aside 3-0 in the Alvalade in Lisbon last Friday. Cristiano Ronaldo took one of the Portuguese hits, and now only needs one goal to score the milestone of 700 goals. In addition, he of course also hunts for the international record for international goals of Iranian former international Ali Daei (109 goals). CR7 stands at 94 goals on behalf of Portugal and therefore needs 15 more goals to reach the same level.
Ukraine Portugal head to head matches
22.03.19 EUR Portugal Ukraine 0 : 0
08.11.96 WC Portugal Ukraine 1 : 0
04.10.96 WC Ukraine Portugal 2 : 1