Preview Line Up Formation Spain vs Portugal Predictions
Portugal have won only five of their previous 32 meetings with Spain in all competitions.
Despite this, Portugal won their last meeting with the Spaniards; winning 1-0 in their Euro 2004 group match.Spain were the first team since Hungary in 1986 not to collect a single card in the group stages of a World Cup tournament.Spain have kept clean sheets in only 26 per cent of their World Cup games (9/34) since the start of the 1982 tournament.
FIFA World Cup 2010 Live StreamingDavid Villa has scored six goals in six starts in World Cups and is now the all-time top scorer for Spain at the tournament.Portugal did not concede a goal in the group stage but drew two of those games 0-0.Despite appearing for only 118 minutes in the group stages, Spanish winger Jesus Navas attempted 40 crosses from open play; 18 more than any other player.
Spain lost an all-European tie in the second round of the 2006 World Cup; losing 3-1 to eventual finalists France.Portugal won their only previous World Cup second round match in 2006 against the Netherlands (1-0), in a game that saw four red cards; two for the Portuguese.
Portugal have conceded just one goal in their last 12 internationals.Should the Portuguese avoid defeat in this match, they will set a new team record of 20 games unbeaten in all competitions.
