Portugal vs Germany Match Report

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Another lacklustre Portugal side became the first of the last eight to crash out of Euro 2008. The Portuguese were outcla sed by the Germans, whose efficient pa sing play saw them score some fantastic goals and book their place in the semis with a match against eitherTurkey or Croatia.Three-time winners Germany started the gamebrightly and created several chances, causing problems for the defence Jackie Robinson Jersey of the Euro 2004 finalists Portugal. And the Germans got their reward on 22 minutes, when Bayern Munichs Bastian Schweinsteiger who was back in the side after his one match suspension broke away from his marker Paulo Ferreira, and got on the end of a Lukas Podolski cro s, smashing the ball past Portugal keeper Ricardo.The Germans doubled the scoring 4 minutes later, after Christoph Metzelder was fouled by Armando Petit 40 yards from goal.The scorer of the Freddie Freeman Jersey first goal, Bastian Schweinsteiger, took the free kick and floated the ball to the far post, where Schweinsteigers Bayern Munichteammate Miroslav Klose beat the offside trap to headed the ball past Ricardo.However, the Germans lead was halved five minutes before the interval Atlanta Braves Jersey when from the edge of his box, Deco began a counter-attack and played a long ball to Simao Sabrosa. Simao then pa sed to Cristiano Ronaldo, whose shot was blocked by Germany keeper Jens Lehmann, only for the ball to deflect back out to Nuno Gomes, who made no mistake of his golden opportunity and hit a left-footed shot past Lehmann and in off Metzelders outstretched leg.Germany put more pre sure on the Portuguese just after the hour mark, when Michael Ballack got on the end of another Schweinsteiger free kick, and headed the ball past the badly positioned Orlando Cepeda Jersey Ricardo to give the Germans a 3-1 lead. However, the goal caused controversy as Ballack was judged to have pushed Paulo Ferreira when jumping to head the ball.Portugal tried to come back into the game and threw everything at Germany in the closing stages, and scored in the 87th minute when substitute Helder Postiga headed powerfully past Ricardo from an excellent cro s by winger Nani, to make the score 3-2.But Hank Aaron Jersey is was not to be as Germany held on, and despite Portugals best efforts, they could not find a way past the determined German defence, who held on to put their country into the last four of the European Championships.

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