Portugal saves the 'ballot' against the Czech Republic with a goal in injury time (2-1)

A goal against and a so much in the discount of Francisco Conceiçao allowed to Portugal debut with victory in the Eurocopa in front of the Czech Republic (2-1). The ones of Roberto Martínez, with Joao Cancel and Cristiano Ronaldo in the alignment, suffered more than the account in Leipzig in spite of being upper from beginning to end in front of a combativa Chequia. At the end, the three points remained in the pocket of the big favourite of the Group F.

The lusos dominated the party from the beginning, controlling the balloon thanks to the good work of Vitinha and Bruno Fernandes in the recovery and occupation of spaces. Bernardo Silva was the more 'enchufado' of the Portuguese attack beside Rafael Leao, bending the field to the left side while Ronaldo awaited by his opportunity as '9'.

The experienced forward had the first clear of the meeting in the 5', cabeceando diverted a good centre of Cancel from the band. In spite of the overwhelming command of the ones of Roberto Martínez, it was necessary to expect until the 31' to see another clear occasion of the lusos, this time with a pass filtered of Vitinha to 'CR7' that left hand manually to the captain but the goalkeeper Stanek anticipated of flawless form to divert the shot of Ronaldo apparently advanced.

The Czechs gave the first hit, but did not attain to sustain the advantage

Both teams returned of the halftime without variants, but the Czechs did not take too much in throwing hand of the bench. When fulfilling the hour of party, the trainer Ivan Hasek did a double variant, including remove to one of his figures, Patrick Schick. The changes gave oxygen to Chequia to advance some metres and advance to contrary field, giving the surprise in the 62' thanks to an authentic golazo of Lukas Provod.

Sablazo Of Lukás Provod and surprise in the #EURO2024: Czech Republic 🇨🇿 wins him 1-0 to Portugal 🇵🇹 of Cristiano Ronaldo. pic.twitter.com/xbkyq6hlmk

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The mediocentro took advantage of a pass of Coufal, previous clear short of Pepe, to take out a powerful finish far in front of the passivity of Bruno Fernandes and Rafa Leao in the mark. Martínez reacted after the goal sending to the field to Gonçalo Inácio and Diogo Jota so that Portugal went back to dump in attack. Five minutes later, the siege luso obtained reward after a centre from the left of Bruno Fernandes that finish in a goal against of the defender Robin Hranác.

Portugal concretised the traced back in the 87' thanks to a so much of Diogo Jota, but the so much was cancelled by the VAR by offside previous of Cristiano, the one who there was cabeceado direct to the stick. Luckily for the lusos, in the discount, the recently ingresado Francisco Conceiçao himself attained to convert a so much legal, taking advantage of a rebound in the area to define in front of Stanek. The so much, this yes, arrived preceded of a no sanctioned fault in favour of the Czechs. With the triumph, the lusos equalise the leadership of the group after the initial triumph of his next rival the Saturday, Turkey, in front of Georgia (3-1).

FINAL! #EURO2024

Portugal 🇵🇹 won him 2-1 to Czech Republic 🇨🇿 on the end by the group F. Goals of Hranac (and/c) and Conceiçãor / Provod.

🗓️Next duels:

🇨🇿22/6 vs. Georgia 🇬🇪
🇵🇹22/6 vs. Turkey 🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/vgibrhjxam

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