Portugal v Algeria Preview and Prediction

Date/time: June 07^th 2018 8:15 PM

On Thursday night, Portugal and Algeria go head-to-head at the Estadio Da Luz, as the home side prepares for the World Cup.

Neither team heads into this game in great form. However, the game is far more important to Cristiano Ronaldo and co. with the World Cup just over a week away.

Portugal heads into this friendly game on the back of just one win in their last five international outings. However, three of their last matches have finished all square.

Last time out the European champions drew 0-0 with Belgium. Their recent indifferent run of results comes on the back of a stellar qualification campaign that saw Fernando Santos’ team win nine of their ten games.

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Algeria failed to qualify for the World Cup after coming bottom of their group in round three of qualifying. In truth, the North African nation has failed to live up to expectations in recent years.

They have won just two of their last 11 international matches, suffering three straight friendly defeats against Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Cape Verde Islands, conceding at least three goals in all three defeats.

One positive for the visitors of late is that they have failed to score in just one of their last five international games.

Prediction

Home win and/or over 2.5 goals