German opening match vs Portugal in Euro 2012 will be held tomorrow at Lviv Arena. Both team are considered equally strong, both in statistic history and their current appearance.

First, let’s take a look on the match statistic.

German onced got defeated by Portugal team back in Euro 2000 with the score of 0-3 for Portugal victory, and had to leave early in the group stage after suffered with the lowest point in the bottom of the group standings.

However, in Euro 2008 they managed to pay a revenge to Portugal team by defeating them with 3-2 score in the quarter final round at Basel.

German is a strong and solid team, and Portugal became the first team to defeat them in World cup 1985 with a close score of 1-0. At that time, Portugal has recorded an amazing 36 matches without loss in the WC competition.

Before Euro 2008, German had a chance to defeat Portugal once more in World Cup 2006, where they fought for third place. German came out as the winner with 3-1 victory. At that time, German have won all of the 10 games in the qualification round.

HEAD TO HEAD

19 June 2008 : Portugal 2-3 Jerman (Euro 2008)
8 July 2006 : Jerman 3-1 Portugal (WC 2006)

German 5 last matches :

31 May 2012 : German 2-0 Israel (Friendly)
25 May 2012 : Switzerland 5-3 German (Friendly)
29 Feb 2012 : German 1-2 France (Friendly)
15 Nov 2011 : German 3-0 Holland (Friendly)
11 Nov 2011 : Ukraine 3-3 German (Friendly)

Portugal 5 last matches :

2 June 2012 : Portugal 1-3 Turkey (Friendly)
25 May 2012 : Portugal 0-0 Macedonia (Friendly)
29 Feb2012 : Poland 0-0 Portugal (Friendly)
15 Nov 2011 : Portugal 6-2 Bosnia (Play-off Euro 2012)
12 Nov 2011 : Bosnia 0-0 Portugal (Play-off Euro 2012)

Players Prediction

German : Neuer, Lahm, Boateng, Mertesacker, Badstuber, Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Ozil, Muller, Podolski, Gomez.

Portugal : Rui Patricio, Pepe, Bruno Alves, Coentrao, Pereira, Meireles, Veloso, Moutinho, Nani, Ronaldo, Postiga.

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The Team list for Bilbao are :

Goalkeepers : Casillas, Adan, Mejias
Defenders : Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Coentrao, Albiol, Arbeloa, Varane
Midfielders : Kaka, Ozil, Granero, Alonso, Khedira, Callejon, Sahin
Forwards : Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Higuain

Anyway, check out some of the arrival pics :

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Ok, now back to the game. Since early of the match, Barcelona carried their usual tiki-taka style, while the visitor prefered a defense strategy.

Barcelona kept their pressure on Real Madrid throughout the match. However, they couldn’t avoid it when Madrid made the opening goal in just 17th minute, through Sami Khedira. It started from a corner kick.  Pepe later tried to shot the ball with a header. Valdes managed to save the attempt, but didn’t quite catch the ball. Khedira then saw the opportunity as the ball was infact still infront of the goalpost, so he only need a little push to score. 1-0 for Real Madrid.

The score remains the same until the break.

In the second half, Barcelona did not lowered their attack, as they had a few other golden opportunity. But still, all failed in trying. Not be able to create goals, Pep later replaced Xavi Hernandez  with Alexis Sanchez. The strategy has proven to be working, as Sanchez scored a quick goal in just a few minutes after entering the field. But the equalizer goal wasn’t for long. 3 minutes later, it was Cristiano Ronaldo’s turn to score his 42nd goal in La liga.

After Ronaldo’s goal, the match became more tense. Barcelona did not intent to give up until the last minute. Fortunately for Real Madrid, they kept their consistency in the defense area. And although Casillas got threatened a  couple of times, but in the end, even 4 minutes injury time couldn’t able to help Barca. The match  later ended with Real Madrid’s victory of 2-1.

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Real Madrid grabbed another victory in La liga with a 3-1 home victory over Zaragoza last night. On the same day, rival Barcelona failed to gain the same 3 points after a shocking 0-0 draw over Villarreal.

With the result, Real Madrid is currently 7 points ahead Barcelona, who now facing trouble due to injured players after the el Clasico.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 24th goal in La liga on the match, while 2 other goals came through Kaka and Ozil. Kaka and Ozil has showed a better performance this year, just about the right time when Angel di Maria and Khedira had to rest due to injury.

Here are pictures from CR :

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