Portugal welcome Finland to Estádio José Alvalade in an international friendly on Tuesday. The hosts will play two more friendlies against Croatia and Ireland before UEFA Euro 2024.
The visitors will end the ongoing international break next week with a friendly against Scotland.
The home side had a 100% record in their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign and continued that form with a 5-2 triumph over Sweden in a March friendly. However, their winning streak ended after 11 games later that month when they lost 2–0 to Slovenia, although key players left the training camp due to club commitments.
The visitors suffered a 4-1 defeat to Wales in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying play-off in their first match of 2024 in March. They bounced back with a 2-1 home win over Estonia in a friendly and will look to continue that form here.
Team news
Cristiano Ronaldo, Rúben Neves and Otávio are the only confirmed absentees as they played in the King’s Cup final on Friday and will return for the next friendly.
Midfielder Glen Kamara was ruled out of training with a leg injury, reducing the squad to 24 as no replacement was called up for the Leeds United player.
Joel Pohjanpalo and Jesse Joronen played for Venezia in the Serie B play-offs on Sunday and will not join the team for this match.
Portugal’s possible lineup: J Sa; Cancelo, A Silva, Dias, Mendes— Neves, Palhinha, Vitinha — Leao, Conceicao, Jota.
Finland possible lineup: Hradecky; Alho, Tenho, Ivanov, Jensen; Lod, Peltola, Suhonen, Nissila; Pukki, Pohjanpalo.
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