Why Underdog Status Will Help Portugal in Euro 2016 Clash with Croatia

Eight have exited. Sixteen remain, but Portugal’s continued presence at Euro 2016 hasn’t got much to do with any intelligence they’ve displayed so far. It’s almost like they don’t know what they’re doing. Three draws from three matches was enough to take them through, though, thanks primarily to the fact Turkey and Albania were only able to get the same amount... 

Why Hungary Proved Portugal Boss Fernando Santos Needs to Make Defensive Changes

Portugal survived, and Cristiano Ronaldo was the man who saved them—no change there, then—but after escaping from what was supposed to be a fairly simple Group F, the questions for manager Fernando Santos are multiplying. The failure to beat any one of Iceland, Austria or Hungary is an alarming one for a nation that always comes into these tournaments considering itself among the elite. Ronaldo’s... 

Why Renato Sanches Should Start Portugal’s Must-Win Euro 2016 Match vs. Hungary

Frustrated and more than a little deflated by events on Saturday night in Paris, Portugal coach Fernando Santos had a message. “The next game is a final and we’re going to win it.” That’s that taken care of, then.   That next game, of course, comes against Hungary in Lyon on Wednesday, and although a draw might end up being enough to send Portugal through to the knockout... 

Portugal and Fernando Santos Are Still Searching for a Euro 2016 Breakthrough

As Portugal are finding out, the very nature of this extended European Championship is that it isn’t always about how you start but how you finish. There have been a huge number of matches in which teams plugging away have finally got their rewards in the closing moments: France against Romania and Albania, Spain against the Czech Republic and England against Wales are among those that come to... 

Cristiano Ronaldo Has Another Nightmare, but Portugal Teammates Have to Help Him

Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty against Austria in Paris on Saturday evening, and there were laughs at his misfortune heard all over France and indeed the world. This is the harsh reality of being Ronaldo, of being the face, the brand and the icon. When things go wrong, you can expect a certain amount of schadenfreude, with his comments following Portugal’s opening match of this tournament... 

Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal Fail to Impress on Their Opening Euro 2016 Night

As opening nights go, Portugal’s performance in the 1-1 draw with Iceland in their first Euro 2016 match isn’t one that has got the critics raving. In fact, they’ve seen it all before. All credit should be given to the Nordic country with a population roughly the size of Leicester—and we all know how they like to spring a surprise around there—but for the Portuguese waking... 

Rebooted Portugal Prepare to Make a Fashionably Late Entrance to Euro 2016

By the time Portugal begin their assault on Euro 2016 in Saint-Etienne on Tuesday evening, we’ll have seen what 22 of the 24 teams in France have to offer. The 23rd, Portugal’s opponents Iceland, are perhaps the biggest unknown quantity in the tournament given their unlikely qualification and status as the smallest nation to ever appear at one of these events. However, not being too well... 

Why Portugal’s Manchester United Target Andre Gomes Is Set for a Big Euro 2016

There’s a bit in that new Nike advert featuring Cristiano Ronaldo, a gifted young footballer and the plot of Freaky Friday in which Andre Gomes scores a goal for Portugal. It is not art imitating life. Going into the Euro 2016 finals, Gomes has appeared eight times for his country and failed to find the net, but there is every reason to believe that will change over the coming days as Portugal... 

Remembering Portugal’s 3 European Championship Heartbreaks This Century

In England, the buildup to Euro 2016 has largely centred on nostalgic throwbacks to the last time they were in France’s position—hosting the tournament and with a nation willing them on. With no international success to speak of since the World Cup in 1966, the penalty-shootout defeat to Germany at Wembley Stadium in the semi-finals of the European Championship in 1996 (as well as... 

Why Nani’s Place in Portugal’s Starting XI Is Under Threat Ahead of Euro 2016

We spoke about Ricardo Quaresma on these pages just a few days ago. The Portugal winger’s career has long been fodder for such discussions, of course. We talked about the fallen idol, the career which could have been and the real sense of underachievement from a player who once promised so much. Obviously, something similar would have been written somewhere before, such has been his up, down... 

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