March Day LIVE
UEFA European Nations League , 2nd Leg ,Quarter Finals .
Reverse Fixture .
Portugal Denmark ., In Lisbon.
March, 23rd , 2025 .
Time -7.45 pm

Yet to recover from the shock defeat to Denmark , in Copenhagen no thanks to Manchester United , Rasmus Hoiujund who came off the bench to get the late minute winners against , Chritiano Ronaldo s Portugal ,
The Portuguese , carry a one goal deficit to this second leg in Lisbon this night , while the Danes have lead to protect .
Will Chirstiano Ronaldo s and his Portuguese football tacticians be able to overcome the Danish national team in today’s encounter .??
The next 90 minutes will give us the answer .

Last Thursdays match in Denmark , saw the Portuguese struggling to get past the Danes who were very much at home , though a penalty miss from Christen Eeikensn , was not enough to deny them victory at home with their pukka play , presice pasees , as well as football prowess , which stunned the Portuguese , then Manchester United , s forward Rasmus Hoiujund who came off the bench in the tension soaked encounter where the Portuguese were over stretched all through the match t o get the late winner .
Since their shock elimination from the Euro 2024 by France , this is the second defeat the Portuguese have had and just one win in their last four games with Roberto Martinez in charge .

Winning the Nations League in 2019 when they beat Netherlands to clinch the trophy , if the Portuguese are eliminated in the quarter finals this year , this will be a shocker to European football .

Hoping to make an impression I the 2026 World Cup in North Amenica next year , ,considering the bunch of quality players they have right now , but if history of their World Cup participation is anything to go by , they have only reached the last Round of 16 , since 2006 , only reaching the quarter finals in Quatar , 2022 finals .

Though the Portuguese have beaten the Danish team on three occasions back to back , but the deficit was reversed on Thursdays night with Rasmus Hoiujund late minute winner that stunned and rattled the Christuano Ronaldo led team .with their dominating force against Denmark , with 11 wins from 17 mathdes .

Denmark got their first win out four matches since September last year losing two times to Spain and a paltry draw against Serbia .
Hoiujund ended his 21 games goal drought with when struck against Leicester last weekend when they beat them 3-0 and did same against the Portuguese , coming in as a late substitute to to end loss to the Portuguese who have a domineering winning history against Denmark .
Through eliminated in the Euro 2024 games by Germany 2- 0, ut it seems that the tides are likely to change and in their Favour as well as they bid to win the Euro Nations League for the first time in history ..

With their morale booster and intimidating win against the high profile Portuguese , the chances are that they may scratch out a draw in far away Lisbon ,not minding heavy presence of Chirrisno and his football tactician from Portugal..
Anything can happen in football.

The Portuguese ar enot likely to make any changes from the first eleven that lost to Denmark, , with Roberto Martinez a dheir Head Coach , he knows his first team very well as well as a spot for play maker , Christiano Ronaldo who failed to find the net in the first leg , watstrd 90 minutes throwing paper darts , on a Danish defence on a cold chiily night in the Scandinavian ,, Bruno Fernandez is also assured of a place in the mid field pack .
Pedro Neto , Bernamdo Silva as well as the French PSG duo of Vinfinha and Joan Neves are also to feature tonight in Lisbon .

For the Danes , Rasmus Hoiujund emphatic late minute winner on Thursday against Portugal automatically books him a place in the starting eleven in today’s match in Lisbon..
Patrick Dorgu is also likely to start from the bench today as the Coach , Reiner would not want to alter the rare guard who were stood against Portugal and victory last Thursday .
Christian Noogaard and Marten Hjumaard are to hold the midfield pack tonight in Lisbon , perhaps the only other substitute will be Rasmuss for Mika Biererh .

Predictions –

Definitely , it’s likely going to be a long night in Lisbon as Portuguese will come out in full force to get a win to keep their hopes alive for the semi finals berth
We may expect an extra time after full time then ultimately a penalty shoot out to decide a winner .
The Danish team are also not push overs at this stage of the competition as they Amy spring surprises to prove book makers wrong .

Portugal 1-0 or 2-1

Happy Viewing , Happy Sunday .

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