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Italy 3-0 Portugal - December 05, 1987 / Euro Qualifying 1988

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Euro Qualifying 1988 - Group 2

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza - Milan - Italy

December 05, 1987

13 524

Italy

3 - 0

Portugal

Gianluca Vialli

Giuseppe Giannini

87'

Luigi De Agostini

89'

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8' - Goal Gianluca Vialli8

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54' - Substitution Rui Antonio Nascimentois substituted by Parente

61' - Substitution Salvatore Bagniis substituted by Luigi De Agostini61

68' - Substitution Alessandro Altobelliis substituted by Roberto Mancini68

68' - Substitution Jesusis substituted by Lucio

87' - Goal Giuseppe Giannini87

89' - Goal Luigi De Agostini89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Italy

3 - 0

Portugal

Italy Portugal

Team line-ups

Italy

Zenga

Walter Zenga

Italy

B.date28/04/1960

Age27 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Ferri

Riccardo Ferri

Italy

B.date20/08/1963

Age24 years

H1m81

positionCentral defender

Francini

Giovanni Francini

Italy

B.date03/08/1963

Age24 years

H1m80

positionLeft central defender

Bergomi

Giuseppe Bergomi

Italy

B.date22/12/1963

Age23 years

H1m84

positionRight central defender

Baresi

Franco Baresi

Italy

B.date08/05/1960

Age27 years

H1m76

positionLeft central defender

Bagni61

Salvatore Bagni

Italy

B.date25/09/1956

Age31 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

De Napoli

Fernando De Napoli

Italy

B.date15/03/1964

Age23 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Donadoni

Roberto Donadoni

Italy

B.date09/09/1963

Age24 years

H1m73

positionLeft Midfielder

Giannini87

Giuseppe Giannini

Italy

B.date20/08/1964

Age23 years

H1m77

positionPlaymaker

Altobelli68

Alessandro Altobelli

Italy

B.date28/11/1955

Age32 years

H1m81

positionStriker

Vialli8

Gianluca Vialli

Italy

B.date09/07/1964

Age23 years

H1m80

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Walter Zenga		27	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Riccardo Ferri		24	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Giovanni Francini		24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Giuseppe Bergomi		23	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Franco Baresi		27	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Salvatore Bagni	61	31	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Fernando De Napoli		23	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Roberto Donadoni		24	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Giuseppe Giannini	87	23	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alessandro Altobelli	68	32	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gianluca Vialli	8	23	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Portugal

Jesus68

Jesus

Portugal

B.date11/02/1955

Age32 years

H1m73

positionGoalkeeper

Frederico

Portugal

B.date06/04/1957

Age30 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

João Silva

Costeado João Silva

Portugal

B.date03/01/1959

Age28 years

positionDefender

Dito

Portugal

B.date18/01/1962

Age25 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Miguel

Portugal

B.date07/06/1963

Age24 years

H1m78

positionRight central defender

Carvalho

António Carvalho

Portugal

B.date10/12/1960

Age26 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

Nascimento54

Rui Antonio Nascimento

Portugal

B.date22/03/1960

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Gilberto Gomes

Portugal

positionMidfield

Hernani

Neves Hernani

Portugal

B.date02/11/1963

Age24 years

positionMidfield

Adão

Pereira Pinto Adão

Portugal

B.date03/04/1960

Age27 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Coelho

Jose da Silva Coelho

Portugal

B.date05/08/1961

Age26 years

H1m74

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jesus	68	32	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frederico		30	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Costeado João Silva		28	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dito		25	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Miguel		24	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	António Carvalho		26	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Rui Antonio Nascimento	54	27	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gilberto Gomes			1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Neves Hernani		24	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Pereira Pinto Adão		27	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jose da Silva Coelho		26	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Luigi De Agostini	8961	26	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Roberto Mancini	68	23	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	G		Lucio	68	33	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Parente	54	26	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Riccardo Ferri

Ciro Ferrara

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

António Carvalho

André

OUT

Rui Antonio Nascimento

Frasco

OUT

Gilberto Gomes

António Sousa

OUT

Costeado João Silva

Paulo Futre

OUT

Dito

João Pinto

OUT

Neves Hernani

Rui Aguas

OUT

Pereira Pinto Adão

Alvaro Magalhães

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Azeglio Vicini

Success rate in this team:

69 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Vicini vs Portugal

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 05, 1987

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Referee

Jan Keizer

2 victories	1 draw	0 loss	Italy3 matches	General total	Portugal1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Italy1 match	Season total	Portugal1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on December 05, 1987					Latest figure on December 05, 1987

Videos

March 03, 2012

Comments

Key figures

Portugal keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a win away from home in Euro Qualifying running (since 23/01/1963). It's a record streak. The first of history

Italy keeps its 9 matches with at least one goal scored vs Portugal at home running (since 22/12/1957). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 08/04/1951 (6 matches)

It's the first time Giuseppe Giannini scores 1 goal in Euro Qualifying

Read the next 25 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VItaly 2-0 China11/05/1986

VItaly 2-0 Greece08/10/1986

VItaly 3-2 Switzerland15/11/1986

VItaly 5-0 Malta24/01/1987

VItaly 1-0 Yugoslavia23/09/1987

VItaly 2-1 Sweden14/11/1987

Overall

DNorway 0-0 Italy28/05/1987

LSweden 1-0 Italy03/06/1987

VItaly 3-1 Argentina10/06/1987

VItaly 1-0 Yugoslavia23/09/1987

DSwitzerland 0-0 Italy17/10/1987

VItaly 2-1 Sweden14/11/1987

Current form

Away

VSweden 0-1 Portugal12/09/1984

VMalta 1-3 Portugal10/02/1985

LItaly 2-0 Portugal03/04/1985

VGermany 0-1 Portugal16/10/1985

DSwitzerland 1-1 Portugal29/10/1986

VSweden 0-1 Portugal23/09/1987

Overall

DPortugal 1-1 Greece07/01/1987

VPortugal 1-0 Belgium04/02/1987

LPortugal 0-1 Italy14/02/1987

DPortugal 2-2 Malta29/03/1987

VSweden 0-1 Portugal23/09/1987

DPortugal 0-0 Switzerland11/11/1987

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	7	1
Unbeaten streak	7	4
Drawless streak	12	1
Scoring streak	15	1
Conceding streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	3	3
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	3	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

7	Number of games (Competition total)	6
3	Number of games (Home / Away)	2
5	Victories (Competition total)	1
3	Victories (Home / Away)	1
1	Draws (Competition total)	4
0	Draws (Home / Away)	1
1	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

13	Goals scored (Competition total)	5
10	Goals scored (Home / Away)	2
4	Goals conceded (Competition total)	5
3	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	1
1.86	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.83
3.33	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
0.57	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.83
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.5

Betting aid

3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	1
3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
4	Clean sheets (Competition total)	2
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	2
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	3
2	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
3-2 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (1 times)

Bookings

7	Yellow cards (Competition total)	1
2	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	1
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Alessandro Altobelli	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Jorge Placido
Alessandro Altobelli	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	João Pinto
Alessandro Altobelli	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Alessandro Altobelli	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Gianluca Vialli	2 goals during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	João Pinto

Historical head to head

Home

8 matches

7 v

1 d

0 l

25 gf

6 ga

Away

8 matches

4 v

0 d

4 l

11 gf

12 ga

Total

16 matches

11 v

1 d

4 l

36 gf

18 ga

Historical head to head

Home

8 matches

4 v

0 d

4 l

12 gf

11 ga

Away

8 matches

0 v

1 d

7 l

6 gf

25 ga

Total

16 matches

4 v

1 d

11 l

18 gf

36 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	December 01, 1929
Home	6 - 1	December 01, 1929

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	May 26, 1957
Away	No success yet

Latest head to head

February 14, 1987 - Eliminatoires Euro 1988

Portugal

0 - 1

Italy

April 03, 1985 - Rencontres amicales 1985

Italy

2 - 0

Portugal

September 24, 1980 - Rencontres amicales 1980

Italy

3 - 1

Portugal

December 22, 1976 - Rencontres amicales 1976

Portugal

2 - 1

Italy

April 07, 1976 - Rencontres amicales 1976

Italy

3 - 1

Portugal

Best historical scorers against Portugal

Alessandro Altobelli	3 goals	1980 - 1987
Raimondo Orsi	3 goals	1929 - 1931
Marcello Mihalich	2 goals	1929 - 1929
Francesco Graziani	2 goals	1976 - 1980
Guido Gratton	2 goals	1957 - 1957
Adolfo Baloncieri	2 goals	1927 - 1929

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 18/06/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Italy

da Fonseca Valdemar Mota	3 goals	1928 - 1928
Nené	2 goals	1976 - 1976
José Manuel Soares Pepe	2 goals	1928 - 1929
Humberto Coelho	1 goal	1970 - 1970
Antonio Manuel Vasques	1 goal	1957 - 1957
Sebastiao Lucas Matateu	1 goal	1957 - 1957

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 18/06/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Portugal

Marco Tardelli	4 matches	1976 - 1985
Gianpiero Combi	4 matches	1925 - 1931
Umberto Caligaris	4 matches	1925 - 1931
Adolfo Baloncieri	4 matches	1925 - 1929
Sergio Cervato	3 matches	1951 - 1957
Virginio Rosetta	3 matches	1925 - 1929

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 18/06/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Italy

Marques Virgilio Mendes	4 matches	1949 - 1957
Augusto Silva	4 matches	1925 - 1929
João Alves	3 matches	1976 - 1980
Antonio Pinho	3 matches	1925 - 1929
Antonio Manuel Vasques	3 matches	1949 - 1957
César Matos	3 matches	1925 - 1928