PORTUGAL-FRANCE REKINDLE RIVALRY

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Portugal and France will once again rekindle their rivalry when they square up in the EURO Nation League A Group 3 cracker when the next rounds of matches return to earn the group's bragging right. Both have recorded 2 wins each out of 2 games played with Portugal sweeping past Croatia 4-1 in their 1st group match before defeating Sweden 2 nil. France, on the other hand, edged past Sweden 1 nil for their group opener before going to defeat Croatia 4-2 in their 2nd group match.

Portugal's lots seems to be on the upward spiral under manager Fernando Santos. The Portuguese, having became the national team handler in 2014, has helped the A Seleção won 2 major European honours in his 7th year of reign.

It could be recalled that when the 2 rivals met in the last European Cup in 2016 hosted by France, it was Portugal who came out onto, edging past France 1 nil in the final. Portugal has then gone on to lift the inaugural edition of the EURO Nations League last year beating The Netherlands in the final.

The French National team and FIFA World Cup holders, will be aiming to add the EURO Nation League to their collection of laurels having missed out on the inaugural edition. Le Blues manager Didier Deschamps might be under a little bit of pressure uf he fails to deliver with the array of talents at his disposal.

The 2 Nations Portugal and France boost of talented players such has the usual suspect of Ronaldo(who had just surpass 100 international goals), Bruno Fernandes, Joao Felix and many more for Portugal while France starstudded squad includes Antoine Griezmann, Killian Mbappe, Raphael Varane to mention few. It would sure be the battle of who is better tactically and Mentally balance when these 2 tournament favourite meet.

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