New Zealand takes on the visitors Portugal at “Krestovsky Stadium” in the gameweek three of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup’s Group Stage. The match will be played in Saint Petersburg on Saturday, June 24th.
New Zealand was defeated in last four encounters with 1:6 aggregated score. At the Confederations Cup in Russia the Oceania’s representative at first has been beaten by the hosts with 0:2 scoreline and in second round it was broken 1:2 by Mexico. The New Zealanders strove in each clash, however, their football level is lower than the opponents’ one, thus after Saturday fight they will leave the tournament for sure. Nevertheless, New Zealand A-team came across the group stage very well and will be quite able to achieve appropriate results at the 2018 FIFA Cup Russia in a year.
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On the contrary, the Portuguese have not failed across four recent games covering two matches at the 2017 Confederations Cup: the side got 2:2 draw against Mexico and 1:0 triumph over Russia. Portugal shares the first-second places in the Group A with the Mexicans having gained four points with 3-2 goal difference and even in the case of a draw in the forthcoming clash, it will promote to the Play Offs. Though, the reigning European champion is the obvious favourite of the match.
New Zealand and Portugal have never met before. It is clear that the Europeans are much stronger than the opponent. Still, at this tournament the New Zealanders have proved that they are the tough team and the Portuguese shouldn’t expect to get an easy win.
Prediction for the match: New Zealand to win with +3.0 Asian handicap.
