Portuguese madness! Diogo Costa puts Portugal in the quarterfinals with a brutal penalty shootout

Portugal advanced to the quarter-finals of the Eurocopa with suffering after a dramatic and exhausting meeting in front of Slovenia (0-0, 3-0 p.). To the equal that England, the ones of Roberto Martínez saw forced to go to the extention to seal his classification to quarter-finals, where expects them France, that to first hour defeated to Belgium by the minimum (1-0) in spite of completing another quite toneless performance. At the end, the penaltis gave the pass to the lusos thanks to a Diogo imperial Coast that cut across three collections of consecutive form.

Portugal did with the command of the party from the go, although no of overwhelming form. The lusos had the possession of the balloon thanks to the good work of Vitinha and Joao Palhinha, but lacked depth to upset to Jan Oblak in the initial stretch. A free shot of Cristiano Ronaldo that brushed the crossbar and a shot to the stick of Palhinha just before the rest were the most stood out of a first intense part in spite of the little action inside the areas.

Slovenia reacted shyly the complement

At all more reiniciado the commitment, without variants during the halftime, Portugal was very near to advance in the marker with another free direct of 'CR7' that Oblak cleared with the fists. However, Slovenia attained to shake by moments of the command luso and, in the 62', Benjamin Sesko wasted an opportunity inmejorable after receiving a pass filtered that it could leave him hand manually in front of Diogo Coast.

The forward esloveno seemed to have advantage, but Pepe reached to disturb him to time, forcing a finish bitten and diverted of the attacker of the RB Leipzig. Roberto Martínez freshened the centre of the field with the entry of Diogo Jota by Vitinha, looking for more depth to drill the 'wall' esloveno. Later ingresaría the youngster Francisco Conceiçao, hero of the victory in front of the Czech Republic, by Rafael Leao.

Nevertheless, the extention was unavoidable, although Jota attained to filter a big pass to Christian that finished with a shot of the direct captain to the hands of Oblak. The goalkeeper expected in the centre of his area, just where finish the finish of Ronaldo that arrived very demanded in front of the mark of Vanja Drkusic. Slovenia only finished once to door in the party, but resisted without too many problems in front of a disordered Portugal and nublada in attack.

Oblak Enlarged in front of Christian in the extention

The first part of the lengthen began unchanged in both selections. When the zero seemed allocated to keep in the marker, the referee Daniele Orsato signalled a questionable penalti in the minute 102 on Diogo Jota. The mediocentro luso seemed to trip with the mark of the defender esloveno, but the Italian referee did not doubt in signalling the fault, a decision endorsed by the VAR.

Cristiano did charge of the collection, pateando to the left hand of Jan Oblak. The collection went with good direction and power, but the '1' guessed the side and cut across with a manotazo remarkable. After the end of the first extention, Ronaldo could not contain the tears by his failure and had to be comforted by his mates to be able to keep in field.

Both teams accused the physical wear in the second part, with a totally broken Portugal in the half. In the 115', an earthy error of Pepe left hand manually to Sesko in front of Diogo Coast, but the guardameta diverted the shot of his rival with the left foot. Martínez put to Rúben Neves thinking in the penaltis, a batch where finish imposing Portugal by 3-0, thanks to the collections covertidos by Cristiano, Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva, beside the stops of Coast.