Portuguese Football in English
Portugal take on Lithuania in Vilnius where the Seleção have a great chance to produce a commanding win and smooth the way to Euro 2020 qualification.
Fernando Santos’ side are back on track in the European Championship qualifiers and tomorrow’s match provides an opportunity to edge closer to Group B leaders Ukraine, with the synthetic pitch at the LFF Stadium rather than the opposition likely to provide Portugal’s biggest obstacle to three points.
Serbia 2-4 PortugalThe Seleção were triumphant in an unlikely high-scoring contest against Serbia in Belgrade tonight with Bernardo Silva and Ronaldo in amongst the goals.
William kick-started an otherwise dull match at the very end of the first half with a scrappy finish, and Portugal traded blows with Serbia until the end to wrestle back second place in Group B of qualification for Euro 2020. Guedes followed his Nations League final heroics with another goal, once again proving any detractors mistaken about the quality of his finishing.
Portugal 4-0 GibraltarPortugal got their U21 European Championship qualification campaign off to a winning start with a 4-0 victory against Gibraltar at the Complexo Desportivo FC Alverca.
Francisco Trincão opened the scoring, Dany Mota bagged a brace and Diogo Queirós wrapped things up a one-sided match where the result was never in doubt.
Fernando Santos has announced the Portugal squad for the Euro 2020 qualifiers against Serbia and Lithuania.
As is his wont, the Seleção boss sprung a few surprises, principally the call-ups for Sevilla defender Daniel Carriço and Olympiakos forward Daniel Podence. Midfielder Renato Sanches, who recently transferred from Bayern Munich to Lille, has also been selected.
Onward and upwardMomentum. The mathematical description of an object’s mass and velocity working in concert. It is much harder to stop an object in motion.
Having overcame the mountainous obstacle of securing its first major championship in 2016, the Seleção have gathered velocity and hurdled the negative inertia of the shattered hopes and dreams of 1966, 2004, 2006, and 2012.
Our destiny has been fundamentally altered. It is now inexorably tilted in the direction of prestigious achievements which would have been unimaginable even just five years ago. There is a palpable sense of expansion, something building. But we are not there yet.
