FT: PORTUGAL 2 - 4 GERMANY.

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• Portugal's last victory against Germany was in the group stages of Euro 2000 - a 3-0 win, courtesy of a Sergio Conceicao hat-trick. It was the last time Germany have conceded 3+ goals by the same player in a major tournament game.
• Since then, Germany have won their four meetings with Portugal, at the 2006 World Cup, Euro 2008, Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup.
• This will be the fifth encounter between Portugal and Germany at the European Championship. Only Italy and Spain have faced each other more in the tournament with 6 matches.
• It will also be the sixth game between the two teams at major tournaments since Euro 2000 - four at the Euros, two at World Cups - the most between two European nations over that period.
• The last five matches between Portugal and Germany have produced 17 goals, an average of 3.4 per match. Four of those five games have witnessed 3+ goals.
• Cristiano Ronaldo has never scored against Germany in four games, despite attempting 23 shots in 360 minutes. Only against France has the Portuguese forward played more times, six games, without finding the back of the net.
• Thomas Muller's only hat-trick for Germany was against Portugal, coming in the group stages of the 2014 World Cup. But Muller has never scored in 12 matches at the Euros, attempting 27 shots without success.

Portugal

• Portugal have lost just two of their last 30 matches in all competitions, winning 19 and drawing nine, scoring 67 goals and conceding 19.
• Having beaten Israel 4-0 and Hungary 3-0 in their last two matches, they are looking to win three successive games without conceding for the first time since November 2017, when they won four in a row.
• Portugal are looking to become only the second reigning champions to win their first two matches of the tournament, after Spain at Euro 2016.

Germany

• Germany have suffered three defeats in their last four group stage matches at major tournaments - as many as in their previous 24 group stage games, where they won 16 and drew five.
• They have not suffered consecutive defeats in the group stage of a major tournament since losing to England and Portugal at Euro 2000.
• Midfielder Toni Kroos completed exactly 100 passes against France. In the last three major tournaments, there have been six instances of a Germany player completing 100+ passes in a game and all six have been by Kroos.

Cristiano Ronaldo

• Ronaldo has become the first player to appear at five different European Championships, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.
• He also became the outright top scorer in Euros history with 11 goals, the player with the most appearances, 39, at major tournaments combined and the oldest player to score 2+ goals in a Euros game aged 36 and 130 days.
• He is now looking to equal Miroslav Klose as the record European scorer at the Euros and World Cup combined. Klose scored 19 for Germany while Ronaldo has 18 and currently level with Gerd Muller.

Fair do’s, they have a ‘Portugal, Water, Coca Cola’ flag.

All Germany for 12 / 13 mins and then Portugal break and Ronaldo scores

1 - 0 Portugal

The Portuguese goalie gotta be the worst kicker of a football I have ever seen

Germany looked a better side than the one we saw in thier first game

Portugal 1 - 3 Germany

52 mins played.

4-2 with twenty minutes still to play.

Probably could have done with Germany scoring another one at the end which would have pushed Portugal into going for it a bit more against France.

Very clinical performance, never right the Germans off .

Ronaldo's 92 yard run and goal, was incredible , the man is an extraordinary talent.

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Originally Posted by life on mars

Very clinical performance, never right the Germans off .

Ronaldo's 92 yard run and goal, was incredible , the man is an extraordinary talent.

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right you say