Portugal vs France. Predicted line-ups and latest news, – July 5, 2024

The matches between Portugal and France at the recent European Championships have already become classics. At the continental championships, these teams meet for the third time in a row, and in the history of the European Championships we will see the fifth meeting of these teams.

Recall that in 2016, the national teams of Portugal and France determined the fate of the Henri Delaunay Cup in the final match of the tournament, and then thanks to a goal by Eder, the trophy was won by Cristiano Ronaldo and company, and at Euro 2020 the teams met already at the group stage and drew 2:2.

Speaking about the current tournament, Roberto Martinez's team had the biggest difficulties in the match against Slovenia, where only the talent of Diogo Costa led the team to the quarter-finals. But Didier Deschamps' wards have problems in principle on the whole distance, but already with the attack.

With the defence of the French team everything is good, only the Polish team was able to score with a penalty. Exactly as the French themselves at Euro 2024 were only able to score from the mark. The other two goals of the "tricolour" came from autopointers.

If we're talking about line-ups, Roberto Martinez will have to give it a lot of thought. The team has a physically exhausting match behind them, so the specialist will have to choose the most ready players.

But so far the Portuguese have not heard any news about the physical problems of the players, so there is no reason to fear that there may be some changes in the squad.

Diogo Jota and Francisco Conceição seem to be the first in line to leave the bench, but Bernardo Silva and Rafael Leão have secured their place in the Seleção attack, while Vitinha and Joao Palinha should not give up their places in midfield.

The French have only one loss, and that is disciplinary - Adrien Rabiot received a yellow card in the match against Belgium, which was his second at the tournament. Thus, the already unemployed midfielder will not play against Portugal.

There are plenty of contenders to take Rabiot's place in the line-up: Ousmane Dembele, Eduardo Kamawinga, Youssouf Fofana and Warren Zaire-Emery. But, we can predict that Deschamps will bet on the Real Madrid midfielder, thus sticking to the same system he used against the Belgians.

Based on these facts, the Dailysports team has prepared for you the predicted line-ups for the Portugal vs France match.

Portugal predicted line-up

Costa; Cancelo, Dias, Pepe, Mendes; Palinha, Vitinha; Silva, Fernandes, Leao; Ronaldo.

France predicted line-up

Maignan; Koundé, Saliba, Upamecano, Hernandez; Kante, Tchouameni, Kamavinga; Griezmann; Mbappe, Kolo Mouani.

The Portugal vs France match will take place on 5 July at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. The starting whistle of English referee Michael Oliver will sound at 21:00 CET.