Euro 2016 final: France vs Portugal in numbers
France has won their 10 games against Portugal, but their opponents know better than anyone that home advantage is not a magic bullet in UEFA European Championship finals.
Portugal can lay the ghost of their UEFA EURO 2004 final defeat in Saint-Denis to rest but the UEFA EURO 2016 hosts have not lost a game against their Stade de France opponents in close to 10 years before Cristiano Ronaldo was born.
Previous meetings
• France has had much the better of the nations’ 24 meetings: W18 D1 L5.
• France has won the last 10 games between the two sides, most recently a friendly in Lisbon in September 2015, in which Mathieu Valbuena scored the only goal.
•Their last competitive encounter also ended 1-0 in France’s favour, a Zinédine Zidane penalty enough to end Portugal’s 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign in the semi-finals.
• That winning streak stretches back over 40 years to a 2-0 friendly success for Portugal at the Parc des Princes in April 1975, Nené and Marinho scoring the goals.
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