Road to Euro2024. The great goal of the summer, however, will have to wait a few more days, given that it will start on Friday 14 June. In the meantime, in less than an hour (precisely at 6.45 pm) there will be a luxury friendly match between Portugal And Croatiaat the Estadio Nacional do Jamor in Lisbon, a useful test to verify the conditions of the respective national teams towards the German tournament.
For the national team Roberto Martinez this is the penultimate friendly before flying to Germany: after beating Finland 4-2, even without Cristiano Ronaldo, A Seleção das Quinas will close the triptych against Ireland. Former Inter and Juve player Joao Cancelo is on the bench, with the AC Milan player Rafa Leao to keep him company. Many faces belonging to the Premier League, from Bernardo Silva (Man City) to Dalot (Man United), passing through Diogo Jota (Liverpool) but not a starter.
Second and last friendly match for the Croatia instead, given that last Monday Luka Modric and his teammates won 3-0 over North Macedonia. Unmissable in the control room is the former Inter player Marcelo Brozovic with Kovacic’s former teammate still in the Nerazzurri shirt (now at Manchester City) and the captain with the number 10 shirt fresh from his 15th Champions League with Real Madrid. On defense he comes out Pogracic of Lecce as the starter, while the central defender is ready to enter the field Erlic (Sassuolo), like Mario Pasalic (Atalanta).
Present but not on the pitch from 1′ Vlasic, Torino attacking midfielder, as well as the former Fiorentina Pjaca who could come in if necessary. The name of the former Nerazzurri player also stands out Ivan Perisicmoved to Hajduk Split from Tottenham.
Below are the official lineups:
PORTUGAL (4-3-3): D. Costa; Dalot, R.Dias, Inacio, N.Mendes; Bruno Fernandes, Palhinha, Vitinha; Bernardo Silva, G. Ramos, Joao Felix. Trainer: Roberto Martinez.
CROATIA (4-3-3): Livakovic; Stanisic, Sutalo, Pongracic, Gvardiol; Modric, Brozovic, Kovacic; Majer, Budimir, Kramaric. Trainer: Zlatko Dalić.
