Francisco Conceição comes off Portugal bench to break Czech Republic hearts

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Substitute Francisco Conceição scored a stoppage-time winner as Portugal kicked off Euro 2024 with a 2-1 win over the Czech Republic

A night of mayhem and confusion, of futures and pasts dragging each other in different directions, and at its climax a goal of pure catharsis for the Group F favourites., one of the tournament favourites, are away: a poacher’s goal by the 21-year-old Francisco Conceição sealing victory in the first minute of injury time after coming off the bench., so close to what would have been a heroic point until a stout defence calamitously gave way at the last.

In a way, Portugal are the anti-England: a radically different take on how to accommodate a squad of luxuriant attacking talents . As for Ronaldo, the top scorer in the Saudi Pro League was beginning, as he so often does, to sense a Ronaldo-shaped hole in proceedings. But even if we consider the things he can still do rather than the things he can’t, the prodigious leap isn’t quite there any more, the finishing lacks its former venom and even a second-half free-kick looped harmlessly into the hands of Stanek.

 

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