Portugal trains and prepares for Ghana
At 0:00 on November 25, Beijing time, the second duel of the World Cup group stage H ushered in. The highly anticipated Portugal finally embarked on the journey of the World Cup. Their first opponent is the African powerhouse Ghana.
Looking back at Portugal's promotion, it was not smooth sailing. In the European qualifiers, the team unfortunately missed the direct qualification. Fortunately, they defeated Türkiye and North Macedonia in the play-offs and finally won a valuable World Cup seat. However, in the World Cup, Portugal's achievements in recent years are really hard to say. They failed to reach the top 16 in 10 and 2018, and were eliminated in the group stage in 2014. For them, the memories of the World Cup are not beautiful.
As the leading star in Portugal, this is the 5th World Cup in which C Ronaldo plays. In fact, since he officially debuted in the national team, Portugal has never missed the World Cup. Considering his age, the fifth session may be the last session. For Ronaldo, this season is a "future-free autumn". From the offseason strike, transfer, to refusing to play as a substitute, and finally bombarding the coach and management of Manchester United , Manchester United , the off-court events of the Portuguese superstar are much more exciting than their performance on the court. Just the day before yesterday, Manchester United officially announced an agreement on Ronaldo's departure. I believe everyone sees his performance at Manchester United. It is also exciting to see whether there will be any changes in Portugal.
Before the World Cup, Portugal played a warm-up match with Nigeria. Without Ronaldo's appearance, the team defeated his opponent 4-0. In this game, the coach Santos lineup was 4-3-3, which is also a conventional weapon of Portugal. However, when Ronaldo appears in the Portuguese formation, Santos will use more 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-4-1 formations, which is also to make Ronaldo play more comfortable. On the premise that he has basically lost his dribbling ability, he needs more support from the midfield, which is definitely a "double-edged sword".
Portugal's opponent is African powerhouse Ghana, which is also their return to the World Cup stage after 8 years. Like Portugal, Ghana's promotion journey was not easy. During the World Cup qualifiers, they experienced two coach changes, and in the third stage they relied on their away goal advantage to beat Nigeria to advance to the finals. Garner's lineup is Thomas Paltey, who currently plays for , Arsenal . He appears more in the midfielder position in the Gunners' lineup, and he may still have to shoulder the responsibility of organizing the offense when he is in the national team. It is worth noting that Ghana is one of the worst offensive teams in the World Cup round of 32, which is difficult to take them further.
Sports Lottery Data
At present, the sports lottery official has a compensation combination of 1.23 (wins), 4.50 (draws), 9.60 (loss) for this game. In terms of score data, Portugal's odds for winning 1-0 and 2-0 were 4.7, 3-0 was 6.75, and 2-1 was 7.25. Except for the odds for 1-1, the odds for the other odds were 8.75, the other odds were 10. It can be seen that Portugal has very obvious advantages.
In fact, the first battle against Ghana is quite good for Portugal. After all, Ghana's overall strength is limited and it is not a difficult bone to crack. However, Argentina's example is right in front of us. There are no weak teams in the World Cup, and the price of underestimating the enemy will definitely be very painful. I believe that with such data support, Portugal's opening match is quite exciting.
(Kasha)
