Sweden hosts Portugal in round 2 of the UEFA Nations League A. The match will be played on Tuesday, September 8th at Friends Arena (Stockholm)
The Swedish national team has been very strong in recent years. At the 2018 World Cup, the team reached the quarterfinals. In the recent qualification for the European Championship, the Swedes confidently took second place in a rather difficult group. They yielded the palm to the Spaniards but outranked Norway and Romania. In the current Nations League, the Swedes lost to the reigning world champions (the French) with a minimum score, but they surpassed the formidable opponent in shots on goal and did not concede in terms of ball possession.
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Of course, the Portuguese national team is strong and has an excellent selection of players. However, despite the great potential, the team is unstable. The Portuguese held the last World Cup unsuccessfully, having hardly progressed from the group and lost to Uruguay in the 1/8 finals. They qualified for Euro 2020 with certain difficulties, although the group was frankly weak. They dealt with the Croats in the first match of the Nations League (4:1), but the Checkered Ones used an experimental lineup. The coach didn’t field several leaders, so you shouldn’t make far-reaching conclusions from the course and the result of that game.
The Swedish national team is well organized. The team shows stable results and rarely fails. The Swedes can offer worthy resistance to any national team in the world, and I would not consider them so obvious underdogs, especially at home. The Portuguese are unstable, and this is a team of mood. They can relax and fail after a confident victory over Croatia. It will not be easy for them to breach the reliable defense of Sweden.
Prediction for the match: Sweden to win with +1.0 handicap
