First quarter final at EURO 2008 will be Portugal vs Germany. The game will be on 19 June at Basel 20:45 local time.
Portugal team qualified to EURO2008 from Group A on 2nd place, behind Poland. At EURO 2008 they play in Group A and finish first in a group with Turkey, Czech Republic and Switzerland. they lost just the last game in group with Switzerland, in a game where Portugal play with the second team.
This is the 5th final tournament for Portugal 1984, 1996, 200, 2004 and 2008, best position was 2 on 2004 when they lost the final against Greece.
Germany came in quarter from the second place in group B. A beautiful first game with a victory against Poland. After this came a lost against Croatia with 1-2. In the last game against the host Austria they won the game with 1-0 a goals scored after a free kick by Michael Ballack.
Germany qualified to EURO 2008 from Group B where they finish on 2nd place after Czech Republic. Germany won the European Championship in 1972, 1980 and 199 and lost the final in 1976 and 1992.
Last game Germany vs Portugal at an European final tournament was in 2000, on a game played in 20 June and Portugal won by 3-0. The games was in Group A, and Germany left the tournament after this game, a draw with Romania and lost with England (0-1)
