UEFA Nations League Semi-Final: Germany vs. Portugal Preview

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00:00We've got a match here coming up. It looks like at 3 o'clock Eastern UEFA Nations League

00:05semi-final. Again, hard for me to keep up with all these different soccer leagues, but

00:09needless to say, you know, obviously these are two very good teams here between Germany and

00:15Portugal. So set us up here with what's at stake and how they move forward. Yeah, well,

00:20we've got an even better one tomorrow. We'll get to that in just a bit. But for this one,

00:23a very intriguing game. Germany and Portugal quite evenly matched. It has chaos potential,

00:29really on both ends of the spectrum. Obviously, this one could end 5-4. Both these teams have

00:34good attacking talent, but I could see this being a 1-0, 2-0 game, even a 1-1 draw as well. So kind

00:40of hard to tell where the game flow will be here. Germany are missing both Jamal Musiala and Antonio

00:45Rudiger. So on both ends of the pitch, they're missing some key players. Florian Vertz, though,

00:50will be the standout player for Germany. Liverpool fans will be intrigued to watch him in this game

00:55because there's a lot of rumors that he could be a new Liverpool player this summer in just

00:59a few weeks. You can get Cristiano Ronaldo to score any time in this game at plus 190, which

01:05is so tempting because famous players like that, especially attackers, have often very low odds to

01:13score just because of the popularity. But I do think at the end of the day, this is going to be a

01:19low scoring game. So maybe I'm shying away from that one a little bit. I don't hate the under

01:25two and a half, about even money. But if you want to go a goal scorer route, I really like Bruno

01:31Fernandes to score or assist at around plus 185. He's been unbelievable for an otherwise terrible

01:39Manchester United team this season, really pulls the strings well, can do it all in midfield.

01:44And I think he'll be really important to Portugal. And I think Portugal will ultimately advance in this

01:48game. Germany just have a couple too many injuries and just can't quite put it together just yet at

01:54the highest level in the biggest games.