Today in Hamburg, the match between Portugal and France will be held in the EURO-2024 quarter-final stage.
Idman.biz reviews the competition history of the teams before the game.
Since 1926, the teams have met 28 times. 98 years ago in the first friendly match, the tricolors won 4:2 and played a better game in the next century. The Portuguese responded to 19 defeats in 28 matches with a total of 6 victories. The goal difference is also enough – 52:31.
The teams did not compete in the qualifying stages. The European championships ended with a 3:2 victory of France in the extra time of the 1984 semi-final, the first of 4 meetings in the final stage. 2000 – same stage, extra time again, the same side winning. This time the score was 2:1.
In 2016, the competition was again moved to extra time. This time, the only goal in the final won the Portuguese national team the first and only championship title in its history.
The double duel between Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema in the group stage of EURO-2020 in 2021 ended with a 2:2 draw. Of the 4 goals scored by these two superstars, only 1 of Benzema's goals was not scored from the penalty spot.
The only match of the teams in the world championships was in the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup, and the fate of the match was decided by Zinedine Zidane’s only penalty goal.
A total of one goal was scored in the two meetings of the parties in the Nations League in 2020. N'Golo Kanté's goal decided the fate of the second match in favor of the French.
The remaining 21 matches were friendly. The French have won 15 times and lost 5 times. The ball difference was 43:25.
Today’s game will start at 23:00.
Vugar Mammadov
Idman.biz
