Portugal made a terrible qualifying phase and due to that and to the last minute goal conceded against Serbia they are now playing the play-offs for the 5th time in their history to reach an international competition - they won always, the 4 times before. If you remember I always send bets against Portugal, against Serbia, in World Cup sometimes, but this time the story is different. The true is that the players are not enjoying to play the way that the coach Fernando Santos wants, they won in 2016 the Euro with a lot of luck as they qualified with 3 draws as one of the best 3rd places and then drew against Croatia, Poland and France in regular time. They only won against Wales with Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani scoring the winning goals, but this game is completely different, they want to win for them as will be the last World Cup of a lot of players and especially the last world cup of Cristiano Ronaldo and so for the first time since 2018 the players are not caring about the coach but to be in this amazing competition. It is true that Portugal are missing some important players for this first game like Cancelo due to suspension, Pepe with Covid-19, Ruben Neves and Ruben Dias injured. If Portugal with Fernando Santos was always a very defensive team for this game they will be very offensive and will try to dominate the whole game as Fernando Santos already said that they will play in a very different style. I am pretty confident that Portugal will destroy Turkey without any problem with high pressing and forcing Turkey to make a lot of mistakes in the defense. They will play at home, in Estadio do Dragao in Porto - the stadium will be full, there are no more tickets to sell and if they win they will play against Italy/North Macedonia at home aswell. Portugal have a lot of players in very good moment, like Nuno Mendes who in the first season playing with the best players of the world in Paris SG won its place against Bernat and is playing every game, William Carvalho who after a bad last season are being very important in Betis, Bernardo Silva probably the best player of this current season of 2021/2022 in my opinion, Joao Felix in the best moment since he signed for Atleti and Cristiano Ronaldo after that hat-trick against Tottenham very motivated to carry one more time Portugal - in the last play-off that Portugal played was in 2014 against Sweden where Portugal won 4-2 in two legs against Sweden with 4 goals by Cristiano Ronaldo. The public in Porto are crazy and will force Turkey to make a lot of errors and forcing Portugal to press high.

Probable line-up: Rui Patricio; Diogo Dalot - Jose Fonte - Danilo - Nuno Mendes; William Carvalho - Bruno Fernandes - Bernardo Silva; Diogo Jota - Joao Felix and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Turkey after the terrible performance in the Euro 2020 decided to change the coach and opted by Senol Gunes. He is doing a good job with 5 wins in 12 games, but he changed completely the way that Turkey are playing - now they want to be more dominant and trying a tiki-taka in the defense to attract the opponents to then explore the wings by Calhanoglu and Under. From what I saw from their previous games they are making too many mistakes in the defense and are giving many times the ball to the opponents and it can be deadly against a team with the best goalscorer in the history of football Cristiano Ronaldo, but this will be the first good test to this new Turkey, playing as away with the full stadium. Turkey have really good players technically like Hakan Calhanoglu, Under, Burak Yilmaz and with the experience of the centre-back Soyuncu.

Probable line-up: Cakir; Celik - Soyuncu - Demiral - Erkin; Under - Calhanoglu - Antalyali - Akturoglu; Yazici and Burak Yilmaz.

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葡萄牙队在预选赛阶段表现糟糕，正因为如此，再加上在最后一分钟输给塞尔维亚队，这是他们历史上第五次参加国际比赛的附加赛——他们以前四次都赢了。如果你还记得我在世界杯上经常赌葡萄牙和塞尔维亚，但这次情况不同。真正的球员不享受玩主教练费尔南多。

桑托斯希望的方式,他们在2016年赢得了欧元的运气,因为他们合格与3吸引最好的第三个地方然后把对阵克罗地亚,波兰和法国在常规时间。他们只在克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多和纳尼打进制胜球的情况下战胜了威尔士，但这场比赛完全不同，他们希望为自己赢得世界杯，因为这将是很多球员的最后一届世界杯，特别是克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多的最后一届世界杯，所以自2018年以来，球员们第一次不关心教练，而是关心这场精彩的比赛。诚然，葡萄牙在首场比赛中缺席了一些重要球员，比如Cancelo因停赛、佩佩因新冠肺炎、鲁本·内维斯和鲁本·迪亚斯受伤。如果葡萄牙队在费尔南多·桑托斯的带领下在这场比赛中一直是一支防守严密的球队，那么他们将会是一支非常具有进攻性的球队，并试图主宰整个比赛，就像费尔南多·桑托斯已经说过的那样，他们将会以一种非常不同的风格踢球。我很有信心，葡萄牙会毫无问题地摧毁土耳其，高压迫使土耳其在防守上犯很多错误。他们将在主场迎战波尔图的德拉高球场，球场将会爆满，没有更多的门票出售，如果他们赢了，他们也将在主场迎战意大利和北马其顿。葡萄牙有很多球员很好的时刻,像努诺·门德斯在玩的第一个赛季世界最好的球员在巴黎SG赢得针对Bernat打每一场比赛,威廉·卡瓦略坏上赛季后是谁在贝蒂斯非常重要,在我看来，贝尔纳多·席尔瓦可能是本赛季21 - 2022赛季最好的球员，若昂Felix在最好的时刻因为他签署Atleti和克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多之后的帽子戏法葡萄牙对阵托特纳姆很积极地把一个更多的时间——在过去的附加赛,葡萄牙打是在2014年对阵瑞典葡萄牙赢了4 - 2在两条腿与瑞典克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多与4个目标。波尔图的公众是疯狂的，他们会迫使土耳其犯很多错误，迫使葡萄牙施压。

可能的阵容:鲁伊·帕特里西奥;迪奥戈·达洛-何塞·方特-丹尼洛-努诺·门德斯;威廉·卡瓦略-布鲁诺·费尔南德斯-贝尔纳多·席尔瓦;迪奥戈-霍塔-费利克斯和克里斯蒂亚诺-罗纳尔多。

土耳其在2020年欧洲杯上糟糕的表现后决定更换教练，由塞诺·古内斯(Senol Gunes)选择。他在12场比赛中取得了5胜，但他完全改变了土耳其的打法——现在他们想要更有统治力，并尝试在防守中采用提基塔卡来吸引对手，然后通过卡尔哈诺格鲁和安德特来探索侧翼。从我所看到的以前的游戏他们犯太多的错误在国防和多次给对手的球和它可以致命的团队足球的历史上最好的射手克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多,但这将是第一个好的测试这个新的土耳其,扮演了整个球场。土耳其在技术上有很好的球员，比如哈坎·卡尔哈诺格鲁、Under、Burak Yilmaz，以及经验丰富的中卫Soyuncu。

可能的阵容:Cakir;Celik - Soyuncu - Demiral - Erkin;Under - Calhanoglu - Antalyali - Akturoglu;Yazici和Burak Yilmaz。