This is also the second championship they won after they were crowned in the European Championship three years ago.
Xinhua News Agency, Porto, Portugal, June 9 (Reporter, Prince Jiang Wen, new year) the Portuguese team won the first European National League Championship on the 9th by defeating Holland with 1:0 at the Fire Dragon Stadium in Porto, this is also the second championship they won after they were crowned in the European Championship three years ago.
Portugal also became the second host team to win the European Championship as the host team after the French team was crowned at the 1998 World Cup. For them to win the goal is playing for the Valencia club Gades. In the 60th minute, Bernaldo led the ball into the penalty area and then returned to the middle road. Gades shot the ball into the lower right corner of the goal at the front of the penalty area.
Santos, who has been the coach of Portugal since 2014, said: “In the past five years, we have almost become an invincible whole, and we always believe that we can win the game.”
The Dutch team had a chance to equalize the score, but first dupe’s header was magically rescued by goalkeeper patrio, and then drew’s shot was higher than the beam.
Portuguese captain Cristiano Ronaldo, who played a hat trick in the semi-final, failed to become the leading role of the game under the strict defense of Dutch defender Van Dick. However, his shooting in the first half still excited the home fans, at that time, after passing two defenders on the left, they shot far away at the edge of the penalty area, and the ball was confiscated by Dutch goalkeeper silessen. He also got a chance to take a free kick, but unfortunately he missed the ball.
This victory expanded the undefeated record of the Portuguese team to 10 games. For the Dutch team who failed to advance to the 2016 European Championship and the World Cup in Russia, winning the runner-up also marks that they have completed the alternation between the old and the new, and will certainly bring more expectations to the fans in the European Championship next year and the 2022 World Cup.
Dutch coach Coleman said after the game: “Although he didn’t win the game, he has accumulated rich experience for the future to reach the final. After this year’s exercise, we have made great progress, but to go further, we need to enhance our attack power, which is exactly what we lack in today’s competition.”
Although the Dutch team possession percentage reached 57% in this match, they only shot four times and didn’t get the first shot until the 64th minute, while the Portuguese team shot up to 18 times in the whole game.
The England team defeated the Swiss team and won the third place in the competition for the third place held in Guimarães 40 kilometers away in penalty kick.