Euro 2012 Opta Stats: Portugal in danger of shock exit

Portugal have kept a clean sheet in only one of their last ten matches at a European Championship
And Portugal have never looked like breaking that bad habit in this tournament, falling behind within 11 minutes against the struggling Netherlands and proving incapable of seeing out a 2-0 lead against unprolific Denmark. Warning signs that this would be the case were fired throughout qualifying as they conceded two at home to Bosnia, three to Iceland and four to Cyprus. Opta note that Czech Republic have scored a goal in 12 of their last 13 European Championship games, including all three at this edition.

On the previous two occasions that the Czech Republic have played a quarter-final match at the European Championship, they have won without conceding a goal
Czech Republic do seem to be an all or nothing team when it comes to this competition, and while the evidence of their 4-1 opening-day defeat to Russia pointed to it being the latter this time, successive wins have put them in a position that they have never failed to qualify from. If you want to follow this trend to the letter, odds of 7.413/2 are offered on the win to nil, but with Michal Bilek's side 3.6553/20 to progress, it might pay just to keep things simple.

Cristiano Ronaldo became the first Portuguese player to score at five different major tournaments (Euro 2004, World Cup 2006, Euro 2008, World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012)
Portugal's captain put in one of the best displays of the group stage in his last appearance against the Netherlands, blasting 12 shots - a Euro record since 1980. However the one key caveat to the Opta insight in bold is that Portugal reached the knockout rounds of each of those competitions and yet Ronaldo only scored in one of those fixtures, a Euro 2004 semi-final against the Netherlands.

Recommended Bets:
Back Portugal to fail to keep a clean sheet @ 1.75/7
Back Czech Republic to qualify @ 3.6553/20
Lay Cristiano Ronaldo to score @ 2.265/4

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