Portugal vs Croatia Euro 2016

Portugal, and one of the teams that have attracted more attention, such as Croatia. The train wreck is powerful because both teams have powerful arguments to be presented in the quarterfinals, also knowing that doing so is an important step towards the final rounds, as the picture is far more benevolent in that part of the picture.

The fact is that Croatia is facing Portugal as the first in group D, as the first group in Spain and one of the best football teams have done in the first phase. also recovered Modric, who was absent to Spain, and be presented with strong arguments and players in great form, as Perisic or Srna.

Opposite a Portugal that in the first phase has not won a game despite having a group a priori quite affordable, with Hungary, Austria and Iceland. None could win the Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo, that did appear in the game against Hungary (3-3) to allow your selection to add at least one point and ensured their presence in the second round, although it was as third.

It is therefore say, according to the results of the first phase and feelings of each team that Croatia is quite a favorite, and no longer is in the betting, really, although quotations and forecasts are fairly balanced, much more dictate what sensations.

It will Modric, as will Mandzukic and Brozovic to give the best to a Croatia whose best result in a European Championship was disputing the quarterfinals in 2008 (first knockout at the time), to be defeated in the penalty shootout by Turkey.

Corluka, Rakitic, Srna and Modric lived in first person that disappointment Vienna and after eight years seek to overcome their memories to approach as far as possible to the legend that embodies its president, Davor Suker, who reached a World Cup semifinal in 1998, in France itself.

The Portuguese collective memory does not forget the disappointment in 2004, when Greece won an absolutely unexpected title against the team that Luiz Felipe Scolari then directed and with as great star Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo had in one of his best young.

Over the years, the young man who could sign for Barcelona, ​​grew up in Manchester United and became a Real Madrid occupies the entire media landscape in the group of Fernando Santos, forced to take a step forward after close the first phase with three draws that have opened some debate around the selection.