Portugal-Iceland is a match on the tenth day of Group J of Euro 2024 qualifiers and is played on Sunday at 8:45 p.m.: predictions.
Portugal aims for the en plein. If Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates should prevail over Iceland as well in the last match of the Euro 2024 qualifiers, they would reach 100 percent victories in their group. An absolute domination that was not that difficult to predict, given the absence of ranked opponents, although initially the unknowns were not few due to the change of technical leadership that took place after the World Cup in Qatar.
Promoted, at least for the moment, the Spanish selector Roberto Martinez, after at the time of his arrival many had criticized the choice of the Portuguese federation, “guilty” of having enlisted a coach who was a veteran of the unsuccessful experience at the helm of Belgium, which ended without any title despite the so-called “golden generation.” Martinez, in spite of the criticism, has managed in a short time to restore an identity to one of the most complete and talented representative teams around, which on paper has nothing to envy from other big names. One of his first decisions was to put 38-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo, who had ended up on the sidelines in the last months of Santos management, back at the center of the project.
Portugal for the en plein
The Al-Nassr striker also found the back of the net last Thursday in the match against Liechtenstein, which was curiously unprolific (0-2).
(Gudjohnsen and Gunnarsson exult after a goal , TheVeggente.it (Ansa)
Portugal, in fact, after their nine goals against Luxembourg and five against Bosnia, played with the handbrake on against the weakest selection in the group, which somehow managed to limit the damage. The Lusitanians will close their campaign against Iceland: the Scandinavians can no longer qualify after finishing even behind Luxembourg — which unlike them has the “lifeline” of the playoffs — in the standings. On Thursday, Age Hareide’s men lost 4-2 in Slovakia against a more motivated opponent, seeing their three-round positive mini streak (two wins and one loss) interrupted.
The prediction
Martinez will continue with experiments but Portugal’s victory is not in question. With some courage, despite the fact that Portugal has only conceded two goals so far, we can also try the “goal” solution, taking into account that Iceland has always scored in the last five games.
Portugal-Iceland
probability lineups.
PORTOGAL (4-3-3): Diogo Costa; Cancelo, Gonçalo Inacio, Ruben Dias, Guerreiro; Bruno Fernandes, Palhinha, Bernardo Silva; Joao Felix, Ronaldo, Diogo Jota.
ICELAND (4-3-3): Olafsson; Sampsted, Palsson, Ingason, Finnsson; Hlynsson, Gudmundsson, Gunnarsson; A. Gudjohnsen, Finnbogason, A. Sigurdsson.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 3-1
