On Friday, at 19:45, Portugal will receive the visit of Ukraine’s representative in a match for the first round of the European Championship preliminaries in 2020. The match will take place on “Estadio da Luz” in Lisbon.
Fernando Santos selected a five-star group for the first matches of the EURO 2020 preliminaries, the most important ones. Evolving within just four days against the representatives of Ukraine and Serbia, the Lusitans are part of a B group that can become more approvable in the case of a “double” positive because the other opponents do not represent a real danger: Lithuania and Luxembourg . Therefore, stars from the most important club teams in the world, such as Barcelona, Manchester City, Juventus, Sevilla or Inter are called to the batch to offer a big show.
On the other hand, the Ukrainians are based on a classic core of players from Sahtior Donetsk and Dinamo Kiev. They are also added to the strangers Konoplyanka (Schalke 04) and Zhincenko (Manchester City) and, considering the latest results obtained by them under the command of Andriy Shevchenko, we tend not to underestimate them in the Friday night dispute in Lisbon.
Given the circumstances of this game, we expect a spectacular hostile run. Although bookmakers anticipate a hostile way for the hosts, without emotion, we think that Ukraine’s representation will have a word at least notable, if not necessarily difficult to say in the confrontation of “da Luz”.
PREDICTION: Portugal to win @ 1,44
