Portugal 3-2 Spain Ricardinho named the first-ever official UEFA Futsal EURO player of the tournament he went off injured in the start of the 2nd half of extra time and he was top scorer of the tournament with 7 goals and all time top Euro finals top scorer on 22 goals
the fans that went over there were magnificent singing in all games and for the full game, it was like our win in 2016 has given our fans some sort of we are Portugal and we dont give a sh1t
That has been a knock on the Portuguese fans in the past.. they do not come off as passionate as they probably should and are generally rather quiet. Portugal NT games have become a family event, and thus, when looking in the stands, you see alot of families/couples/etc. Glad the fans performed the way they did, and hope it carries over to the WC.
Great game. Portugal were the better side for most of the game deserved winners. Ricardinho -the best in the world, goes out with an injury and we win late in extra time a la the other European Champions. Fitting.
Winners: Portugal Runners-up: Spain Third place: Russia Fourth place: Kazakhstan Player of the tournament: Ricardinho (Portugal) Top scorers Ricardinho (Portugal) 7 Bruno Coelho (Portugal) 6 Eder Lima (Russia) 5 Including qualifying Bruno Coelho (Portugal) 11 Archil Sebiskveradze (Gerorgia), Halim Selmanaj (Albania) 9 Eder Lima (Russia), Abdessamad Mohammed (France) 8 Most assists Douglas Junior (Kazakhstan) 7 Ricardinho (Portugal) 4 Bebe (Spain), Bruno Coelho (Portugal), Eduardo (Azerbaijan), Miguelín (Spain), Robinho (Russia), Petro Shoturma (Ukraine) 3 Records Ricardinho (Portugal) became all-time finals leading scorer with 22 goals. Eder Lima (Russia) is up to third in the all-time list with 17. Portugal become the second nation to simultaneously be EURO futsal and football champions after Spain between February and July 2016 (and again from 2008 to 2014). In the quarter-finals, Portugal became the first team to score five goals in the first half of a Futsal EURO finals game in their 8-1 defeat of Azerbaijan. Spain became the first team to play 50 finals matches, in the group game against Azerbaijan. Russia also reached that mark in the third-place play-off as well as becoming the first team to play 80 matches including qualifying. Spain's opening goal in the decider made them the first team to reach 200 in finals matches. Spain kept up their record of reaching every semi-final since the first edition in 1996. France became the 19th different nation to play in a UEFA Futsal EURO. This is the last time the tournament will have 12 teams: from now on the finals will be a 16-nation event played every four years, starting 2022. New format for 2022: expansion to 16 teams Group stage Tuesday 30 January Group A: Slovenia 2-2 Serbia Group B: Russia 1-1 Poland Wednesday 31 January Group C: Portugal 4-1 Romania Group D: Spain 4-4 France Thursday 1 February Group B: Poland 1-5 Kazakhstan Group A: Serbia 1-1 Italy Friday 2 February Group D: France 3-5 Azerbaijan Group C: Romania 2-3 Ukraine Saturday 3 February Group B: Kazakhstan 1-1 Russia Group A: Italy 1-2 Slovenia Sunday 4 February Group C: Ukraine 3-5 Portugal Group D: Azerbaijan 0-1 Spain Quarter-finals Monday 5 February Serbia 1-3 Kazakhstan Slovenia 0-2 Russia Tuesday 6 February Portugal 8-1 Azerbaijan Ukraine 0-1 Spain Semi-finals Thursday 8 February Russia 2-3 Portugal Kazakhstan 5-5 Spain (aet, Spain win 3-1 on pens) Finals day Saturday 10 February Third-place play-off: Russia 1-0 Kazakhstan Final: Portugal 3-2 Spain (aet) Champions roll of honour 2018: Portugal 3-2 Spain (aet): Ljubljana, Slovenia 2016: Spain 7-3 Russia: Belgrade, Serbia 2014: Italy 3-1 Russia; Antwerp, Belgium 2012: Spain 3-1 Russia (aet); Zagreb, Croatia 2010: Spain 4-2 Portugal; Debrecen, Hungary 2007: Spain 3-1 Italy; Porto, Portugal 2005: Spain 2-1 Russia; Ostrava, Czech Republic 2003: Italy 1-0 Ukraine; Caserta, Italy 2001: Spain 2-1 Ukraine (golden goal); Moscow, Russia 1999: Russia 3-3 Spain (aet, 4-3 pens); Granada, Spain 1996*: Spain 5-3 Russia; Cordoba, Spain *UEFA European Futsal Tournament, championship status from 1999 onwards Titles: Spain 7 Italy 2 Portugal, Russia 1 Final appearances: Spain 9 Russia 6 Italy 3 Portugal, Ukraine 2 Semi-final appearances: Spain 11 Russia 9 Italy 8 Portugal 4 Ukraine 3 Czech Republic, Kazakhstan 2 Azerbaijan, Belgium, Croatia, Netherlands, Serbia 1 (bold: inc 2018)
current ranking - 10 February 2018 Ranking Team Points rankdec 17 +/- dec 17 1 (1) Brazil 1935 1 0 2 (2) Spain 1845 2 0 3 (3) Argentina 1691 4 1 4 (4) Russia 1684 3 -1 5 (5) Portugal 1654 7 2 6 (6) Iran 1645 5 -1 7 (7) Italy 1552 6 -1 8 (8) Kazakhstan 1548 9 1 9 (9) Ukraine 1482 8 -1 10 (10) Azerbaijan 1440 10 0 11 (11) Paraguay 1403 11 0 12 (12) Croatia 1394 12 0 13 (13) Slovenia 1384 13 0 14 (14) Japan 1376 15 1 15 (15) Serbia 1366 14 -1 16 (16) Colombia 1324 16 0 16 (16) Czech Republic 1324 18 2 18 (18) Thailand 1285 17 -1 19 (19) France 1274 20 1 20 (20) Panama 1262 19 -1
Holy crap - that was so close. Spain's PK to take a 3-1 lead near the end of the game rattles off the crossbar and out miraculously - then Portugal ties the game in the last minute of regulation. Then in the extra time Spain hits the post off the post once before Portugal's goal and then just 10 seconds before the end of the game (great save by keeper too). Crazy intense game. Amazing that Portugal finally vanquished their boogie man Spain here and Ricardinho finally gets his national big tourney trophy to go with his individual accolades - even though he couldn't finish the big game injured. It's like Ronaldo and Portugal's Euro '16 cup all over again!!