Portugal vs Turkey World Cup qualifiers
Portugal vs Turkey world cup qualifiers: Turkey has never beaten Portugal in a stakes game, but that’s not the only reason we think the home team are moving forward.
For the teams that finished second in the World Cup qualifying series, the match of the year will follow. Because there is no further room for improvement, whoever loses here will be eliminated. In the Portugal vs Turkey World Cup qualifiers, with Ronaldo’s tower-high favourites, we can bet with odds of around 1.17 and the winner of the duel will have a good chance to play against Italy.
Well, let’s not run so far ahead, let’s see if there is a realistic chance for Turkey to do what Serbia had accomplished in November.
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If it’s not clear what we’re talking about, Serbia won a 2-1 victory in the final World Cup qualifier in Lisbon, even though the home team (Portugal) were already leading, very early-on in the 2nd minute thanks to Renato Sanches. So, the home team’s chance was unfortunately missed here, but that’s in the past and the not everything has been lost due to this failure.
Fernando Santos’ crew have great scores and have only lost 2 matches out of the 26 that they have played since 2018, winning the last 16/12.
Did you know? Portugal was last eliminated in the World Cup qualifiers in 2008 before the defeat against the Serbia!
Turkey is not so brilliant because the team last made it to the World Cup in 2002. The task is not easy here either, as the team in the top 40 of the world rankings has not been beaten abroad since 2018.
It can be recalled that Turkey was in fact knocked out of the 2020 World Cup with 3 defeats and then suffered a demoralizing 6-1 defeat against the Netherlands in September of the same year. Despite all of their bad luck, they still managed to reach the playoffs.
Stefan Kuntz’s sons can be given extra strength by taking the opponents’ conceded goals in all group matches and not having any major players missing.
Portugal vs Turkey world cup qualifiers: What to bet on?
The bench of the home team is much fuller and so the replacement of any missing team members can be easily solved without much trouble, but we are hoping to see a tighter match than we first expected.
Turkey will hardly have the line-up for Jota-Ronaldo-Silva, but based on their recent matches, they could be good for a retaliation, so we’d bet on a Portugal win, with both teams to score.
Marca published an article following the match, outlining the highlights and results of the game.
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