UEFA Nations League Portugal vs Italy 10/09/2018

UEFA Nations League Portugal vs Italy

Portugal and Italy play this Monday night at the Estádio da Luz in another meeting to count for the League of Nations.

Portugal finished 2nd in Group B of the last World Championship with 5 points, 1 win and 2 draws. His goal metric tells us that he had 6 scored and 4 conceded, thus averaging 3 goals per game.

Once the playoffs were cleared, Portugal were unable to overcome the first hurdle called Uruguay, thus ending their participation in the World Cup.

Italy were one of the big disappointments in the qualifying round as they failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, falling at the feet of Sweden in the playoffs.

In the group stage, they finished 2nd in Group G with 23 points, with 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

Regarding goals, Squadra Azzurra had 21 scorers and 8 conceded, making an average of 2.9 goals per game.
His performance abroad was very good, adding 4 wins 1 only 1 defeat in the visit to Spain. After the failure to qualify, Italy held 6 games, scoring 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses.

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The two teams played midweek, knowing that Portugal drew 1-0 against Croatia in a private encounter, while Italy and Poland played the opening match of the group, registering the same result.

There has been great goal-scoring in Portugal and Italy, as both have been permissive in the defensive section, but on the other hand they score goals with great regularity.

So much so that we have seen at least 2 goals in 12 of the last 14 matches played by the teams, and in all the last 6 games played by Squadra Azzurra.