Portugal U21 VS Italy U21 ( BETTING TIPS, Match Preview & Expert Analysis )™
PREVIEW & TIPS FOR Portugal U21 vs Italy U21
On Monday, from 20:00, the Portugal U21 – Italy U21 match will be played in the European Youth Quarterfinals. The Portuguese passed the groups with maximum points, while the Italians qualified in the elimination phase only from the 2nd place in the group.
Portugal U21 Team News
Portugal marched in March in Group D of the European Youth Championship in Hungary and Slovenia. He won the group with maximum points, six goals scored and none received. He defeated Croatia 1-0, England 2-0 and Switzerland’s national Under 21 team 3-0. The Lusitanians also had excellent preliminaries, but they qualified only from the 2nd place in the group, despite the fact that they collected 27 points out of 30 possible.
They were overtaken by the Netherlands, which had the same number of points, but the advantage of direct games. Portugal has ten consecutive victories in youth, where it is undefeated in the last 11 matches played. The Portuguese missed the last final tournament and left the groups in 2017, after playing the final in 2015, lost against Sweden.
Italy U21 Team News
Italy qualified for the Euro 2021 quarterfinals in 2nd place in group B. They finished the group undefeated in March with five points, but were overtaken by Spain, which collected seven points. The “Azzurrins” drew with the Czech Republic and Spain and beat Slovenia 4-0. Italy arrived without emotions at this year’s European Youth Championship.
He won his group in the preliminaries, with 25 points out of 30 possible, four above the second ranked, Iceland. Ireland, Sweden, Armenia and Luxembourg were also part of the group. Italy has participated in 11 of the 13 final tournaments played since 1998. In six of the last ten he has reached at least the semifinals, and in 2000 and 2004 he won the trophy. At the last Euro, which he also hosted, he did not pass the groups.