Portugal vs Sweden Prediction & Betting Tips (21 March)

Portugal literally flew through the groups for the next Euro by winning its 10 matches. It's an exceptional performance, but one that can be attenuated as the opponents were weak. We actually found Liechtenstein, Bosnia, Iceland, Luxembourg and Slovakia in this group. No matter, this selection has been full of confidence and will arrive at the Euro as top seed after reaching a quarter-final at the last World Cup, lost against Morocco. It's a little disappointing because we feel that this team has it under control! We will have a taste of the level of this team during the two friendly matches planned against Sweden and Slovenia a few days later. What a disappointment for this talented Swedish team which will not even participate in Euro 2024 after its sad 3rd place.

during the playoffs. Very far behind Austria and Belgium, this Scandinavian selection nevertheless had everything to succeed in qualifying. The two defeats against Austria and against Azerbaijan 3-0 were too much, and the victory against Estonia on the last day 2-0 could not do anything about it. In January, the internationals playing in the local championship were able to play a friendly match against Estonia, with a 2-1 victory, the starting point for a possible revival. After Portugal in a friendly, the Swedes will be able to compete against Albania in front of their home crowd.

We find a very interesting Portuguese selection, but deprived of Cristiano Ronaldo for this first match. On the youth side, we will note the return of PSG player Nuno Mendes (19 sel), his teammate Ramos (10 sel, 7 goals), or the promising Antonio Silva (Benfica, 7 sel), Inacio (Sporting, 5 sel, 2 goals), Diogo Costa (Porto, 19 sel) and Joao Neves (Benfica, 3 sel, 19 years old). Many now established players from this selection will also be present, starting with Joao Cancelo (Barcelona, ​​50 sels, 10 goals), the former Pepe (134 sels, 8 goals) and Ruben Dias (City, 53 sels) behind.

In the middle, Bruno Fernandes (United, 63 sels, 19 goals) is one of the key players, as is Bernardo Silva (City, 87 sels, 11 goals), and up front there is a choice: Joao Felix (Barcelona, ​​36 sels, 7 goals), Leao (Milan, 23 sels, 3 goals) and of course Cristiano Ronaldo (205 sels, 128 goals) who no longer needs to be introduced but who is therefore absent.