Portugal beat Ghana in a game in which all the action was packed into the last half hour, and they almost dropped two points at the death. twoht
So Portugal are up and running, but this didn’t happen without a fair amount of wheezing first and some butterflies in the stomach at the end. For almost 75 minutes against Ghana they were pretty tepid, a goal up twenty minutes into the second half thanks to a penalty kick that came about from a rash tackle, with two goals in three minutes, scored by Joao Felix and Rafael Leao, to eventually see them home by, as it seemed, a comfortable margin.
It’s fair to say that they qualified by the skin of their teeth. They’d won their group the previous November by one goal on goals scored from South Africa, after having tied with them on both points and goal difference and then beating them 1-0 in their final match. In the play-offs under new head coach Otto Addo, they followed a goalless draw in Kumasi with a 1-1 draw in Abuja to secure their place at the finals.
Twice in the opening quarter of an hour, he had chances to start writing the next chapter of his heroic struggle but twice they were spurned, first by a leaden-footed first touch that took the ball into the grateful smothering arms of the Ghanaian goalkeeper Lawrence Ati-Zigi, and the second with a far post downward header that skidded wide of the post with an open goal more or less in front of him.
Mohammed Salisu went in for a somewhat foolish tackle, a slight tackle and just enough contact to earn a penalty kick. There was little question who was taking it. 1-0 to Portugal. Somewhere, a critic was answered.
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