Portugal and Chile have confirmed their beginning groups for his or her assembly in a global pleasant in Oeiras on Saturday.
Roberto Martinez’s facet are being tipped at contenders on the match within the US, Canada and Mexico and, having been paired with Colombia in Group Ok, are testing themselves in opposition to South American opposition earlier than their ultimate tune-up in opposition to Nigeria in Leiria on Wednesday.
Chile final appeared on the finals in 2014 and completed backside in CONMEBOL qualifying, failing to attain of their ultimate six matches of the marketing campaign.
In two friendlies in Eden in March, La Roja beat Cape Verde 4-2 earlier than struggling a 4-1 defeat to New Zealand.
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World Cup 2026 pleasant: Portugal confirmed group vs Chile
Portugal make seven modifications from their 2-0 win away to the USA on April 1, bringing in Nelson Semedo, Ruben Dias, Renato Veiga, Francisco Conceicao, Bernardo Silva, Rafael Leao and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Diogo Dalot, Tomas Araujo, Goncalo Inacio, Francisco Trincao, Pedro Neto transfer to the bench, as do Goncalo Ramos and Vitinha, joined among the many substitutes by Joao Neves and Nuno Mendes every week after the quartet received the Champions League ultimate with Paris Saint-Germain.
Portugal beginning XI: Jose Sa, Nelson Semedo, Ruben Dias, Renato Veiga, Joao Cancelo, Francisco Conceicao, Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Samu Costa, Rafael Leao, Cristiano Ronaldo
Portugal substitutes: Diogo Costa, Tomas Araujo, Diogo Dalot, Goncalo Ramos, Joao Felix, Goncalo Inacio, Joao Neves, Francisco Trincao, Pedro Neto, Goncalo Guedes, Ruben Neves, Rui Silva, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes, Ricardo Velho
World Cup 2026 warm-up: Chile full line up vs Portugal
Chile make 4 alterations from that defeat in New Zealand, bringing in Ivan Roman, Agustin Arce, Maximiliano Gutierrez and Gonzalo Tapia.
Proper-back Francisco Salinas is out with an ankle sprain and has been changed within the squad by Fabian Hormazabal.
Chile beginning XI: Lawrence Vigouroux, Felipe Faundez, Ivan Roman, Guillermo Maripan, Gabriel Suazo, Felipe Loyola, Agustin Arce, Vicente Pizarro, Maximiliano Gutierrez, Gonzalo Tapia, Dario Osorio
Chile substitutes: Thomas Gillier, Fabian Hormazabal, Igor Lichnovsky, Clemente Montes, Ivan Morales, Lucas Cepeda, Felipe Mendez, Francisco Sierralta, Rodrigo Echeverria, Matias Sepulveda, Lautaro Millan, Nils Reichmuth, Brayan Cortes, Diego Ulloa,
The place to look at Portugal vs Chile: TV channel, stay on-line stream
Kick-off on Saturday is at 18:45 BST (13:45 ET / 10:45 PT), with stay protection within the UK on Amazon Prime PPV, which expenses £2.99 for the sport.
World Cup 2026 pleasant: Portugal vs Chile stats
- The defeat to New Zealand was Chile’s first in six matches together with friendlies (W4 D1), having gone winless in six (L4 D2) earlier than beating Peru 2-1 at dwelling in October 2024
- Each matches between the groups throughout the twenty first century have been attracts after 90 minutes: 1-1 in a pleasant in Leiria in March 2011 and 0-0 within the Confederations Cup in Kazan in June 2017, when Ronaldo and Bernardo had been amongst Portugal’s starters and Chile received on penalties
- Cristiano Ronaldo is showing at his twelfth consecutive main match and is the all-time file scorer in males’s internationals, with 143 targets
- The five-time Champions League winner Ronaldo grew to become the primary participant to attain at 5 World Cup ultimate tournaments by scoring in opposition to Ghana in 2022
- Portugal’s 2-0 defeat in Eire in qualifying in November is their solely defeat in 11 matches, though they recovered to beat Armenia 9-1 at dwelling to seal qualification three days later, hitting 9 for the second time below Martinez
- They then drew 0-0 in Mexico in March, representing the second time of their final 4 video games they’ve failed to attain, having netted in every of their earlier seven matches for a complete of 20 targets
- Together with friendlies, Portugal have gone greater than 4 hours and 12 minutes with out conceding
- The Selecao haven’t conceded in a pleasant in additional than 5 hours and 4 minutes, though they’ve one clear sheet of their final 5 aggressive matches
- Bruno Fernandes scored twice in a 4-0 win over Nigeria in Lisbon in Portugal’s solely pleasant earlier than the 2022 World Cup, continuing to beat Ghana and Uruguay within the group stage earlier than dropping to South Korea of their third match and beating Switzerland within the final 16
- Chile have scored a minimum of twice in every of their final 5 matches for a complete of 11 targets, with all of these matches being friendlies
