Italy vs Portugal Betting Tips
Italy try this Saturday, November 17, to retain their hopes of qualifying for the semifinals of the League of Nations of Europe. In a match for the fifth round – penultimate – League A, Azzurra will host Portugal at the Giuseppe Meazza / San Ciro stadium in Milan. The match is scheduled to start at 17:45 CET.
The teams are in Group 3, which is led by the Portuguese with six points and two still to be played. The Italians, with four, are in second place. To be able to take the first place and advance to the next stage of the first edition of the competition must win and hope that the Poles, who are in the last position and have already been relegated to League B, defeat Portugal in the final round.
For the Portuguese team, a draw is enough this Saturday or, depending on the balance of goals in the match with the Italians or even the criterion of qualified try, at worst, a success against Poland to secure the first position. That is, the team has two match points.
Italy
After failing to qualify for the World Cup in Russia, advancing or not in the League of Nations would mean little to the Italians. In practice, the team seems to be standing still in time. Although Roberto Mancini took command even before the World Cup, the discussions at the time of the summons seem the same as in the pre-Cup season.
The most talked about subject in the list presented for Saturday’s match against Portugal and the friendly next Tuesday, November 20, against the United States was the absence of Mario Balotelli. Mediatic, the attacker has defenders and detractors. However, his presence does not alter the big problem of the team, which is lack of offensive creation.
While the football of the Italian clubs has evolved, the Italian selection follows stopped in the time. Of course, the technical quality of the country’s top teams, which use foreign athletes, is lacking, but the lack of tactical ability of their coaches to perceive that more offensive variation is needed seems to be an even greater obstacle than this.
Mancini called three new names for the national team. Young Sandro Tonali of Sassuolo, midfielder Stefano Sensi and striker Vincenzo Grifo will wear the ITAA shirt for the first time. Of the veterans, the spotlight will be on the defender Giorgio Chiellieni, who will complete 100 matches with the team.
The athletes available for the clashes are:
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Alessio Cragno (Cagliari) and Salvatore Sirigu (Torino);
Defenders: Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Mattia De Sciglio (Juventus), Emerson Palmieri (Chelsea, England), Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Alessio Romagnoli (Juventus).Socks: Nicolo Barella (Cagliari), Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan), Jorginho (Chelsea, England), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Stefano Sensi (Sassuolo), Sandro Tonali (Brescia) and Marco Verratti ;
Attackers: Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Federico Chiesa
(Fiorentina), Vincenzo Grifo (Hoffenheim, Germany), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Kevin Lasagna (Udinese), Leonardo Pavoletti (Cagliari) and Matteo Politano (Inter Milan).
Portugal
Not even the elimination in the round of 16 of the World Cup of Russia was able to shake the prestige that the technician Fernando Santos conquered when taking to the selection of Portugal to the title of Euro 2016. Thus, he has been conducting the process of renovation of the team without major challenges.
In this walk, he even allowed himself the luxury of dismissing Cristiano Ronaldo. The Juventus striker, who was out of the calls for September and October, also did not appear in the list for the games against Italy and Poland that will define the situation of Portugal in the League of Nations of Europe.
Part of that tranquility was guaranteed with unbeaten in all four games without the star. Portugal accumulated three victories and a draw after the World Cup. For the final matches of the Uefa League of Nations qualifying round, Fernando Santos called:
Goalkeepers: Beto (Goztepe), Cláudio Ramos (Tondela) and Rui Patrício (Wolverhampton);
Defenders: Cédric Soares (Southampton), João Cancelo (Juventus), Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund), Luís Neto (Zenit), Mario Rui (Naples), José Fonte (Lille), Pepe (Besiktas) and Rúben Dias (Benfica).
He is also a member of the Inter-American Football Confederation (WBC). He is also a member of the Brazilian Football Confederation. Bruno Fernandes, Danilo Pereira, André Gomes, Everton, Pizzi, Renato Sanches, );
Attackers: Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Bruma (RB Leipzig), Rafa Silva (SL Benfica), Éder (Lokomotiv Moscow), Gonçalo Guedes (Valencia) and André Silva (Sevilla).
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In 26 matches played, Italy has a large advantage in the retrospective against Portugal with 18 victories accumulated. The Portuguese won on six occasions and there were two equal ones.He has lacked boldness in the work of the Italian national team. The available human material allows for better performances than those presented in recent years. In Portugal, the phenomenon has been the opposite. Often the team has achieved more than could be expected. Thus, the prognosis in the victory of the visitors seems to be the most suitable for the duel of Saturday in Milan.
Bet Tips: Italy
Odds: 2.15
