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The Belgians in the quarterfinals on July 2. He will play for the Italian national team, which beat Austria’s eleven in the eighth final on Saturday after a 2: 1 overtime.
The match between Belgium and Portugal took place at high temperatures, with thermometers marking 28 degrees in Seville.
In the first half, C. Ronaldo made a dangerous free kick, but his shot was blocked by Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. Although the Portuguese frequently visited the Belgian side of the field, it was the only real moment in the first half of the match in which the tall man defending the Belgian team’s goal had to show his mastery.
42 min. Belgium itself took the lead: Thorgan Hazard sent the ball with a powerful and twisted shot from outside the box to the lower right corner of the goal, thus scoring one of the most beautiful goals of the championship.
The teams went into halftime with the Belgians leading 1: 0. As it turned out a little later, this result shone on the scoreboard after the match, but there were many events in the second half of the match.
As soon as the second half started, Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian national team leader and field dispatcher, called for a substitution, which his opponent had painfully knocked down at the end of the first half of the match. Dries Mertens was the replacement.
The Portuguese attacks became more and more acute, the tension in the square grew, there were more obstacles and fouls. 81 min. T. Courtois made a superb shot from the center of the area and Rubeno Diaso, who couldn’t do anything, getting down and swerving, did it all up.
And yet, although the Portuguese team made several more dangerous attacks during the rest of the time, the ball did not end in the goal of the “red devils”, the Belgian team went to the next stage and sent the Portuguese on vacation.
You can see the overview of the match and the objective here.
Statistics of the national team matches between Belgium and Portugal
The result
Belgium 1-0 Portugal
42 ‘Thorganas Hazardas [1-0]
We remind you that the Belgian team reached the eighth final without slipping in the first phase of the competition: in group B they beat Russia 3: 0, Denmark 2: 1 and Finland 2: 0.
At that time, Portugal finished third in Group F of the “Deaths”: they defeated Hungary 3: 0, defeated Germany 2: 4 and played 2: 2 against France.
As already mentioned, the Belgians will play the Italians in the quarter-finals, and now there is another clear pair in the quarter-finals: the Danish team will face the sensational Czech team, which presented a sensation and eliminated the Netherlands.
Four more Eighth Final matches will be played on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, Croatia will play Spain and France with Switzerland, and on Tuesday the stage will be “closed” due to the clashes between England and Germany and Sweden and Ukraine.
Playoff tree
The largest European football event postponed for a year due to the pandemic includes, for the first time, up to 11 cities from different countries, with a total of 24 national teams competing, and the title is being defended by Portugal.
The top two teams from each group and four of the six will rank third in the playoff subgroups.
The winners of the Euro 2020 tournament, which will last exactly one month, will be announced in the final at Wembley Stadium in London on July 11.
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