Confederations Cup: Portugal vs Chile Prediction 28/06/2017

The Match Is Over. Score: 0:0 (0:3)

Portugal vs Chile Match Preview:

The Portugal and Chile national sides have successfully made it to the last-four phase at the Confederations Cup in Russia, with the European team managing to finish top of Group A, whereas the South America side did not hold down top-finishing Germany in Group B as Juan Antonio Pizzi's squad finished off second and two points adrift of the World Cup champions.

Match status: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup - Play-Offs
Kick-off: Wednesday 28 Jun 2017, 07:00pm GMT
Venue: "Kazan Arena" in Kazan, Russia

Portugal vs Chile Match Preview:

Chile's current situation might have got much worse had an Australia side converted a brilliant scoring chance by Trent Sainsbury, who was yards away from a finishing shot but fired сarelessly over the bar - that was in first-half injury time when the Australia team were 1-0 up in the last game of their group campaign, before Martin Rodriguez scored an equaliser to award his team admittance to playoffs.

While they qualified from Group B, the Chile team had reached a record 2 draws and a win over Cameroon in the opening match, as the other two games against Germany and Australia finished with the 1-1 scoreline.

Portugal's three clashes at the group stage have seen the European champions clinch two victories to the sides that were in no position to be promotion contenders from Group A - Russia and New Zealand - and Fernando Santos' men could have taken it to three wins if they hadn't conceded the 91's injury time goal by Moreno.

In overall, those testings for Portugal say nothing so far about the real conditioning of the team and a matchup against Chile will surely be something to show whether Portugal are the tournament favourites not only on paper.

Possible Teams' Starting Line-ups:

Portugal: Rui Patricio - Eliseu, Pepe, Bruno Alves, Cedric Soares - Ricardo Quaresma, William Carvalho, Adrien Silva, Bernardo Silva - Cristiano Ronaldo, Andre Silva (4-4-2 formation)

Chile: Claudio Bravo - Mauricio Isla, Gonzalo Jara, Marcelo Diaz, Jean Beausejour - Charles Aranguiz, Pablo Hernandez, Arturo Vidal - Jose Fuenzalida, Eduardo Vargas, Alexis Sanchez (4-3-3 formation)

Portugal & Chile Missing Players:

Portugal: Raphael Guerreiro.

Chile: Gary Medel.

Portugal vs Chile Head-to-Head Stats:

The last time these nations met was in 2011, a regular friendly international in which the managers brought out their second-choice lineups, and goals from Varela and Matias Fernandez set a 1-1 draw early in the game.

Despite Portugal keeping a clean sheet in their last two matches and Chile winning only one group encounter, the upcoming semi-final clash may see one of these win Confederations glory, since bookmakers are determined that Germany and Mexico do not contain potential Cup winners in their tie, which is reasonable to agree with.

Nevertheless, the Chile side are thought to not be going as they did at the Copa America last season while the Portuguese leave a lot to be desired in the aspects of play with Ronaldo being the only goal-minded player, but his efforts are sometimes not enough to win games (against Mexico). We expect the match will go very tight with no apparent winner side in the full time.