A National Football Team will face Portugal for the 9th time with the play-off round semi-final match of the 2022 FIFA World Cup European Qualifications to be played tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkey won 2 of the 8 matches between the national teams of the two countries, while Portugal won 6 of them. In the remaining 8 matches, 5 official and 3 private, Turkey scored 8 goals and Portugal scored 16 goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkey achieved two victories against its opponent with 3-1 results in the first and last match it played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkey and Portugal faced each other for the first time on 18 December 1955 in a special match at the Istanbul \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The moon-star team won this match 3-1. The goals of the national team came from Lefter K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckandonyadis, Metin Oktay and Nazmi Bilge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The crescent-star team won their last match against Portugal. Turkey won the special match played on June 2, 2012 in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, 3-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the goals of the national team came from Umut Bulut (2) and Pepe (own goal), Nani scored Portugal’s only goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this match, goalkeeper Volkan Demirel did not allow Cristiano Ronaldo to score a penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this win, Turkey also finished the streak of 6-match defeat and 4-game inability to score against its opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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