Goal and Highlights: Portugal 2-0 Czech Republic in Nations League

The teams return to the field next Sunday (12) at 2:45pm ET. The Czech Republic will face Spain, at La Rosaleda, Malaga. Portugal visit Switzerland at the Stade de Genève.

Portugal leads group A2 with seven points, two ahead of Spain. The Czech Republic, on the other hand, is in third position with four points.

⏹ Portugal 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘! 👏 A Seleção descola no primeiro lugar do Grupo 2⃣! 🚀 #VamosComTudo

🇵🇹 2-0 🇨🇿 pic.twitter.com/UrjdlXaUig — Portugal (@selecaoportugal) June 9, 2022

🇵🇹⏱️🇨🇿 The match is over and Portugal won 2:0 thanks to goals by Cancelo and Guedes. #NationsLeague pic.twitter.com/x0miSKXus6 — Czech Football National Team (@ceskarepre_eng) June 9, 2022

Game Over

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Cancelo, for a foul on Vlkanova

Out: Gonçalo Guedes and Rúben Neves

In: João Moutinho and João Palhinha

Rafael Leão, for a foul on Coufal

Rúben Neves misses when receiving from Diogo Costa. Vlkanova steals, enters free in the area and sends it out

Out: Mateju

In: Král

Out Diogo Jota

In: Rafael Leão

Out: Hlozek

In: Vlkanova

Jurecka is launched in the attack, behind Pepe, and shoots to the left of the goal

Out: Bernardo Silva and William Carvalho

In: Vitinha and Bruno Fernandes

Gonçalo Guedes is triggered inside the area, delays and ends up being disarmed by Sadílek

Jota catches an excess inside the area, pulls it to the middle and releases a bomb. The goalkeeper makes a great save

Jurecka receives from Pesek and swings in the net from the outside

Gonçalo Guedes tries to thread Cristiano Ronaldo in the area, but overdoes it. Stanek gets possession

Cristiano Ronaldo, for a hard tackle on Jemelka

Diogo Costa makes a mistake when he comes out to clear a throw-in. Jurecka deflects it back, but no one seems to want to finish. However, the assistant raises the flag

Game restarts

Out: Lingr, Havel and Kuchta

In: Pesek, Jemelka and Jurecka

⏸ Grande primeira parte! É para continuar! 👊 #VamosComTudo

🇵🇹 2-0 🇨🇿 pic.twitter.com/SnRQTBvzWw — Portugal (@selecaoportugal) June 9, 2022

🇵🇹⏱️🇨🇿 Half-time in Lisbon. The hosts are 2:0 up thanks to goals by Cancelo and Guedes. #NationsLeague — Czech Football National Team (@ceskarepre_eng) June 9, 2022

The first half ends

Cristiano Ronaldo gets rid of Mateju, hits him looking for the angle. Stanek flies and saves with one hand close to the post

Jota finds Reuben Neves in the middle. He plays it to Cancelo, who takes too long to cross and Brabec puts it over the line.

Bernardo Silva lines up Gonçalo Guedes at speed. The midfielder shoots a cross

Mateju, for hitting Gonçalo Guedes with his arm

Cancelo tables with Bernardo Silva, who puts in the most category for the full-back to invade the area and releases a bomb, giving no chance to Stanek

Lingr dominates in the middle of two markers, feeds Kuchta the right ball. The striker dominates with freedom and hits a cross. Diogo Costa grows, making a great save

Cancelo gives a nice pass to Bernardo Silva, who crosses from the back line. Gonçalo Guedes makes the move, but punctures to finish

Soucek

Cristiano Ronaldo shoots on a counterattack, passes two when he gets close to the area and shoots out

Rúben Neves crosses dangerously into the box. Pepe struggles to deflect it, but can't reach it. He even complains of a deflection in the middle of the path.

Coufal advances down the corridor, gets up in the box. Sadilek misses and isolates

Guerreiro takes a free-kick into the box. William Carvalho deflects it at the second post and stamps Mateju

Rúben Neves is triggered on the edge of the area, takes a chance and sends it to the right of the goal

Gonçalo Guedes takes a corner kick. Stanek slaps the ball away

Portugal spins the ball around in midfield. The Czechs move up the line of scrimmage, making it difficult to find space

William Carvalho, for leaving his arm in Lingr's face

The referee blows the whistle

Players lined up for the national anthems. The first will be from the Czech Republic, then from Portugal

*inserir música épica* pic.twitter.com/DH15jwVK5h — Portugal (@selecaoportugal) June 9, 2022

Czech Republic in the warm-up

Warm-up at Estádio José Alvalade stadium. #NationsLeague 🇵🇹🇨🇿 pic.twitter.com/R8TVYsF3LG

— Czech Football National Team (@ceskarepre_eng) June 9, 2022

Vaclík, Mandous; Zelený, Jemelka, Kúdela, Pesek, Kalvach, Král,Cerny, Jurecka, Vlkanova, Tecl 

Stanek; Zima, Brabec, Mateju; Coufal, Soucek, Sadílek, Havel; Lingr, Hlozek, Kuchta

Rui Patrício, Rui Silva; Dalot, Carmo, João Palhinha, João Moutinho, André Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Rafael Leão, Otávio, Nuno Mendes, Vitinha

Diogo Costa; João Cancelo, Pepe, Danilo, Guerreiro; William Carvalho, Gonçalo Guedes, Rúben Neves; Bernardo Silva, Diogo Jota, Cristiano Ronaldo

Fernando Santos will reach 100 games under the command of Portugal. Check out the numbers:

61 wins
23 draws
15 defeats
204 goals scored
73 goals conceded
2 titles (EURO 2016, Nations League 2019)

Video Assistant Referee (VAR): Rade Obrenovic (Slovenia)

Assistant Video Referee (AVAR): Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia)

Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

Assistant Referee 1: Matej Zunic (Slovenia)

Assistant Referee 2: Manuel Vidali (Slovenia)

Fourth official: David Smajc (Slovenia)

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This is the start time of the game Portugal vs Czech Republic of 9th June 2022in several countries:

Argentina 3:45 pm: Star +

Bolivia 2:45 pm: ESPN2, Star +

Brazil 3:45 pm:  Star +

Chile 2:45 pm: Star +

Colombia 1:45 pm: Star +

Ecuador 1:45 pm: Star +

USA 2:45 pm ET: ViX, Fox Sports 1, FOX Sports App, Foxsports.com

Mexico 1:45 pm: Blue To Go Video Everywhere, Sky HD

Paraguay 2:45 pm: Star +

Peru 1:45 pm: Star +

Uruguay 3:45 pm: Star +

Venezuela 2:45 pm: Star +

"There won't be many changes (against Portugal), but Jindra Stanek will be in goal. Our opponents are very good, but we don't only want to defend. We have already shown with Spain that we can be dangerous on the counter-attack. Would it be better for us if Cristiano Ronaldo didn't play? Playing against a player like Ronaldo is an experience and the boys will want to face him."

Goalkeepers: Ales Mandous (Slavia Praha/Czech Republic), Jindrich Stanek (Viktoria Plzen/Czech Republic) and Tomás Vlacík (Olympiacos Pireaeus/Greece)

Defenders: Jakub Brabec (Aris Thessaloniki/Greece), Vladimír Coufal (West Ham/England), Milan Havel (Viktoria Plzen/Czech Republic), Václav Jemelka (Sigma Olomouc/Czech Republic), Ales Mateju (Venezia/Italy), Tomás Petrásek (Raków Czestochowa/Poland), David Zima (Torino/Italy), and Jaroslav Zelen (Jablonec/Czech Republic)
Midfielders: Václav Cerny (Twente/Netherlands), Jakub Jankto (Getafe/Spain), Lukás Kalvach (Viktoria Plzen/Czech Republic), Ladislav Krejcí (Sparta Praha/Czech Republic), Ondrey Lingr (Slavia Praha/Czech Republic), Jakub Pesek (Sparta Praha/Czech Republic), Michal Sadílek (Twente/Netherlands), Tomás Soucek (West Ham/England), Adam Vlkanova (Hradec Králové/Czech Republic), and Alex Král (West Ham/England)

Forwards: Adam Hlozek (Sparta Praha/Czech Republic), Václav Jurecka (Slovácko/Czech Republic) and Jan Kuchta (Lokomotiv Moscow/Russia).

 

"We will have to be patient, we will have to be attentive. The Czechs beat Spain and got a draw at the end, and beat Switzerland. It was not by chance. Individual creativity is also important. They are well organized and compact defensively. We have to be patient and wait for the right moment. But we won't change our philosophy, we want to impose ourselves in the game."

Goalkeepers: Diogo Costa (Porto/Portugal), Rui Silva (Real Betis/Spain) and Rui Patrício (Roma/Italy)
Defenders: Diogo Dalot (Manchester United/England), João Cancelo (Manchester City/England), Danilo Pereira (Paris Saint-Germain/France), David Carmo (Braga/Portugal), Domingos Duarte (Granada/Spain) Pepe (Porto/Portugal), Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint-Germain/France) and Raphaël Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund/Germany)

Midfielders: João Moutinho (Wolverhampton/England), João Palhinha (Sporting/Portugal), Rúben Neves (Wolverhampton/England), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City/England), Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United/England), Matheus Nunes (Sporting/Portugal), Vítor Ferreira "Vitinha" (Porto/Portugal) and William Carvalho (Real Betis/Spain)

Forwards: Otávio Monteiro (Porto/Portugal) Gonçalo Guedes (Valencia/Spain), Rafael Leão (Milan/Italy), Ricardo Horta (Braga/Portugal), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United/England), André Silva (RB Leipzig/Germany) and Diogo Jota (Liverpool/England).

The Czech Republic has the same record as the Portuguese. However, they opened with a 2-1 win against Switzerland, but drew 2-2 against Spain. The Czechs are in second place, with the same four points as their opponents this afternoon.

After drawing 1-1 with Spain and earning a first authoritative victory, 4-0, over Switzerland, Portugal leads group A2 with four points.

Portugal vs Czech Republic, live this Thursday (9), at the José Alvalade Stadium, at 2:45 pm ET, for the Nations League. The match is valid for the 3th round of the competition.

My name is Izabelle França and I’ll be your host for this game. We will provide you with pre-game analysis, score updates, and news as it happens live here on VAVEL USA.