🇵🇹Portugal

1. 1

   Houston · NRG Stadium

   🇨🇩DR Congo ·Jun 17 D 1–1

   15 m · 72k · retractable · 34°C

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   🇵🇹Portugal 1–1 🇨🇩DR Congo

   Seventy-five percent of the ball, and almost nothing to show for it. Portugal took the lead early through Joao Neves, Pedro Neto supplying, then spent the afternoon passing in front of a DR Congo side that simply would not be moved. Yoane Wissa's equaliser on the stroke of half-time was no smash-and-grab either — Congo actually edged the expected goals, 0.82 to 0.69, on a quarter of the possession. For the fourth-most-valuable squad here, this is a point dropped and a question asked. Possession is not the same as penetration.

   Goals 6' J. Neves · 45' Y. Wissa

   xG 0.69–0.82 ·Poss 75% ·Shots 7 (1 on target) ·Corners 5 ·GK saves 1

2. 2

   Houston · NRG Stadium

   🇺🇿Uzbekistan ·Jun 23 W 5–0

   15 m · 72k · retractable · 34°C

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   🇵🇹Portugal 5–0 🇺🇿Uzbekistan

   Portugal did not so much win as conduct a procession. Cristiano Ronaldo set the tone inside six minutes and had his second before half-time, Nuno Mendes drilled in between, and by the hour an own goal and Rafael Leao's late strike had made it five. Expected goals of 2.44, nine shots on target, two-thirds of the ball — every department in command. Uzbekistan's goalkeeper made four saves and still picked it out of his net five times. A ruthless afternoon — and the old man is still the headline act.

   Goals 6' C. Ronaldo · 17' N. Mendes · 39' C. Ronaldo · 60' A. Nematov (OG) · 87' R. Leao

   xG 2.44–0.24 ·Poss 66% ·Shots 17 (9 on target) ·Corners 3 ·GK saves 2

3. 3

   Miami · Hard Rock Stadium

   at 🇨🇴Colombia ·Jun 27 D 0–0

   2 m · 65k · open · 32°C 🔥

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   🇵🇹Portugal 0–0 🇨🇴Colombia

   Portugal were second best from first whistle to last and will not care one bit. Pinned in by a relentless Colombia — twenty-four shots faced, an expected-goals deficit of 1.63 to 0.69 — they defended for their lives and rode their luck when it mattered most. Their goalkeeper made six saves, and when Davinson Sanchez did finally beat him deep in stoppage, the offside flag spared them. For the fourth-ranked side here this was not a performance to savour, but a clean sheet and a point, dug out of a night under siege, will do nicely.

   xG 0.69–1.63 ·Poss 45% ·Shots 13 (2 on target) ·Corners 2 ·GK saves 6

4. 4

   Toronto · BMO Field

   🇭🇷Croatia ·Jul 2

   80 m · 45k · open · 26°C

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   Full time · The Report Nerve held, in the end

   🇵🇹Portugal 2–1 🇭🇷Croatia

   Portugal needed every one of the four added minutes, and a long night with the video screen, to get here. Ivan Perišić stunned them just after the break; Cristiano Ronaldo levelled from the spot on sixty-eight, having already had a goal ruled out for offside. Then, in the ninety-fourth minute, Gonçalo Ramos turned in Rafael Leão's cross to win it — one of three goals VAR weighed on the night. The fourth seed created the better chances, 2.18 expected goals to 1.34, and just about deserved it. Into the last sixteen, hearts intact.

   Goals 53' I. Perišić · 68' C. Ronaldo pen · 90+4' G. Ramos

   xG 2.18–1.34 ·Poss 61% ·Shots 15 (3 on target) ·Corners 9 ·GK saves 5

5. 5

   Dallas · AT&T Stadium

   🇪🇸Spain ·Jul 6

   180 m · 80k · retractable · 35°C

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   🇵🇹Portugal 0–1 🇪🇸Spain

   Portugal held Spain for ninety minutes and lost the tie in the ninety-first. Mikel Merino's stoppage-time finish, set up by Ferran Torres, ended a taut derby that had looked destined for extra time. Portugal defended the neighbours with real discipline, their goalkeeper equal to most of what came, but carried too little going forward to make the game their own. A tournament of promise ends on the cruelest of margins — one lapse, one cross, one goal. Portugal are out.

   Goals 90+1' M. Merino

   xG 0.58–1.77 ·Poss 45% ·Shots 10 (2 on target) ·Corners 3 ·GK saves 5

• 5,469km travelled
• 178m altitude swing
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