Portugal are at present cruising over Türkiye in Group F motion at Euro 2024 with a 2-0 lead in the second half..
Bernardo Silva opened the scoring with his first goal of the event in the twenty first minute and Portugal doubled the lead seven minutes later after a miscommunication between the Türkiye protection.
João Cancelo intercepted a header in midfield and labored a fast give-and-go with Bruno Fernandes to advance the ball into the Türkiye finish. As he broke upfield with Cristiano Ronaldo wanting to make a run, Cancelo misinterpret it and performed a cross ahead to nobody, turning it over with 4 Türkiye gamers round the ball.
As the Portugal gamers reacted to the poor choice, and Ronaldo doing so in animated vogue, Türkiye’s Samet Akaydin tried to play the ball again to goalkeeper Altay Bayindir, who was not anticipating the cross.
Disaster struck and it was 2-0 Portugal.
That was the sixth own goal of the Euros by means of a bit over every week of motion. That would stand for the event lead over the two scored by Slovakia’s Ivan Schranz and Germany’s Jamal Musiala.
Fernandes would put house a Ronaldo cross off a 2-on-0 in the 56th minute to put Portugal up 3-0.
Should Portugal maintain on for the win they might enhance to 2-0-0 and clinch a spot in the Round of 16. Their last sport is Wednesday in opposition to Georgia. Türkiye would stay on 3 factors with their last sport in opposition to Czechia.
Türkiye would then want to beat Czechia or see Georgia lose or draw with Portugal so as to safe passage to the knockout spherical at the Euros for under the third time.
