Comments and predictions for Germany vs Portugal: Falling to the home team
The match between Germany and Portugal in the Nations League takes place at 2:00 a.m. on June 5. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest Germany vs Portugal team information
Goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen has returned after nine months of injury and is likely to start in place of Oliver Baumann and Alexander Nubel.
Captain Joshua Kimmich is set to make his 100th appearance for Germany, and he is the most in-form player in the squad, following impressive performances against Italy, with the Bayern Munich midfielder scoring and assisting four of the remaining goals over the two legs.
However, Nagelsmann is still without a number of players, with Yann Bisseck the latest to be forced off with an injury in the Champions League final, along with Antonio Rudiger, Nico Schlotterbeck and Jamal Musiala still sidelined, while Kai Havertz has yet to be used.
Amid rumours of Cristiano Ronaldo leaving Al-Nassr, he will make his 220th appearance for Portugal, against a team he has never beaten before.
Bernardo Silva made his 100th appearance in the return leg against Denmark, and could join fellow Paris Saint-Germain Champions League winners Joao Neves and Vitinha in midfield.
Geovany Quenda is the only player left out of the squad from the Denmark game, with uncapped striker Rodrigo Mora replacing the Chelsea-bound youngster.
Latest expected lineup for Germany vs Portugal
Virtue:
Ter Stegen; Kimmich, Tah, Anton, Mittelstadt; Gross, Goretzka; Gnabry, Wirtz, Sane; Undav
Portugal:
Costa; Dalot, Dias, A. Silva, Mendes; Bernardo, Vitinha, Neves, Fernandes; Jota, Ronaldo
Latest football commentary on Germany vs Portugal
This will be the first time Germany and Portugal have met in the UEFA Nations League, and the first time they have faced each other outside of a major tournament since 1997.
Germany have the honour of hosting the finals on home soil in their first appearance at this stage, and they enter the semi-finals in impressive form having lost just one of their last 11 home games – the Euro 2024 quarter-final against eventual champions Spain.
Germany's team morale ahead of last summer's Euros was not exactly high, but they are now optimistic they can compete with the top teams ahead of the 2026 World Cup, and three-quarters of the Nations League quarter-final against Italy in March proved that.
However, Julian Nagelsmann's men struggled to see that game out, despite leading 5-1 on aggregate going into half-time of the return leg, as Germany conceded three second-half goals against the Azzurri, and were fortunate to have an away penalty overturned by VAR.
However, Germany continued to show good form in this year's Nations League, when they also easily won their group with 14 points out of a total of 18, in a group with the Netherlands, Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Germany are slowly climbing the live betting tables for next summer's World Cup, and they are favourites to win the Nations League on home soil this month, so they will be confident of extending their winning streak against Portugal to six games.
The two teams are familiar with each other in major tournaments, but after losing in the group stage at Euro 2000, Germany beat Portugal at the 2006 and 2014 World Cups, as well as at Euro 2008, Euro 2012 and Euro 2020.
It was not the kind of performance Roberto Martinez wanted to see ahead of this game, with him under pressure after a disappointing Euros last summer and an unconvincing win over Denmark in the Nations League quarter-finals.
Portugal were nearly eliminated after drawing 2-2 at home after a 1-0 first-leg defeat, but Francisco Trincao's late equaliser and an early extra-time strike sent them through to the semi-finals.
The 2019 champions are underdogs in the last four, but much of the current squad were part of the winning side six years ago, and this win will provide good momentum ahead of World Cup qualifiers starting in September, where they will face Ireland, Hungary and Armenia.
Portugal have performed well in the Nations League group stage after a lacklustre showing at Euro 2024, which included defeat to Georgia and a penalty shootout win over Slovenia before being eliminated by France, and Martinez has seen a positive response from his players as they remained unbeaten in a group containing Croatia, Scotland and Poland.
Latest Germany vs Portugal score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Germany vs Portugalas follows:
- Sportsmole:Germany 3-1 Portugal
- WhoScore:Germany 2-1 Portugal
- Our newspaper predicts:Germany 3-1 Portugal
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