League Nations: What does Portugal need to win Group A4?

Aafter four victories in the first four days of the group, Portugal secured the transition to the next phase, such as Spain, world champion, in Group A3, and it suffices one point to ensure the first place, which is worth the status of serial head in the quarter finals.

The team ‘quinas’ faces Denmark on Saturday in Braga, and visits Cardiff on Tuesday to measure forces with Wales at the farewell of the grouping.

Portugal leads Group A4, with 12 points, followed by Denmark, with six, while Wales and Norway add three, with the fight for the second wave of qualification being open.

With the establishment for the ‘fourths’ of the League of Nations, the formation of the ‘quinas’, currently holding the trophy, also ensured that it will stay in a group of four teams in the Euro2028 qualification and start the competition only in September of next year.

The draw for the Euro2028 qualification will be on December 6, with Portugal confirmed as the head of the series.

Jorge Jesus won all the games played in the service of the Portuguese team, with the case Cristino Ronaldo in the middle, and has already achieved the best start ever of the team of 'quinas' in the League of Nations.

The selector now seeks, without the emblematic captain among the options, to lead Portugal to victory in the League group The third time, after 2019 and 2025, years in which he won the competition, being the only one who has raised the trophy more than once.

In the first three editions, only the group winners advanced to the semi-finals, a scenario changed in the last edition, with the introduction of the quarter finals.

With the four triumphs already achieved, Jesus equated António Oliveira and Otto Gloria, who also won the first four official games, excluding private, but still has in front of him Paul Benedict (five), Fernando Santos (seven) and his predecessor Roberto Martínez, with a record of 12.