Overview
In the summer of 2025, the focus of national team matches will certainly be on the 2024-2025 Nations League finals.
For the German team, the expectations from fans are very high, because they have the home advantage in this year's final round. However, the journey to conquer the Nations League title will be very difficult for the Germans, because they are having difficulty in terms of personnel when missing a series of key players such as Rudiger, Musiala and Havertz due to injury.
With a patchwork personnel, coach Julian Nagelsmann will have to handle extremely skillfully to face the players in good form on the Portuguese side.
"European Selecao" has almost gained the service of the best players, including the three pillars that have just won the Champions League with PSG, Nuno Mendes, Vitinha and Joao Neves. In addition, the team from the Iberian peninsula also has the presence of names such as Bruno Fernandes, Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva or Rafael Leao.
Portugal's biggest problem in many years has been the ability to connect the star players in the squad. Not to mention, the striker position is still a headache for coach Roberto Martinez.
Cristiano Ronaldo is increasingly feeling the weight of age and cannot maintain high-intensity competition. Meanwhile, other options such as Ramos, Jota or Felix lack stability.
Germany has been a formidable side for Portugal in recent times, having won all five of their most recent meetings. Portugal's most recent victory over their opponents took place 25 years ago.
Germany won 4-2 at the Allianz Arena when the two teams last met in the EURO 2020 final.
Personnel situation
It will be interesting to see whether coach Martinez will pick three PSG players, Nuno Mendes, Joao Neves and Vitinha right after their efforts in the Champions League final.
On the other side of the front line, Nagelsmann had a difficult situation in choosing an attack. Goalkeeper Yann Bisseck is absent after being injured in the Champions League final.
Expected lineup:
Germany: Baumann, Mittelstadt, Tah, Koch, Kimmich, Andrich, Gross, Pavlovich, Wirtz, Sane, Undav.
Portugal: Costa, Dalot, Mendes, Silva, Dias, Palhinha, Fernandes, Vitinha, Leao, Ronaldo, Conceicao.
The match between Germany and Portugal takes place at 2:00 am on June 5 (Vietnam time).
