Portugal bҽat the Czech Republic 2-1 on Tuesday to win their first Euro 2024 game. Youngster Francisco Conceicao scored the game-winning goal in the 92nd minute, but Portugal had to come from behind to win.In the first match of the group, Turkey bҽat Georgia 3-1 in a thɾilling game in Dortmund.

Roberto Martinez’s Portugal easily qualified with a perfect record, but they barely bҽat Leipzig in their first game, which took place in pouring rain.

Ronaldo played in a record-setting sixth European Championship, and Pepe, a defender who is 41 years old, became the oldest player for the Selecao in the tournament’s history.

Lukas Provod’s fine shot from the edge of the box after an hour put the Czechs ahead against the run of play. But Robin Hranac’s own goal soon tied the game before Conceicao’s winner.

“We want to do more, but there was a lot of emotion and desire, and sometimes we didn’t follow through with the plan,” Vitinha, the player of the match winner for Portugal, said.

“We wanted to start strong and show how strong we were, but we gave up the goal first, giving the Czech Republic their first chance.”

“We showed all our coolness and resilience.”

Portugal fans marched to the game waving flags and in a good mood, even though there was a short but strong thunderstorm. They chanted Ronaldo’s name and copied his “Suuuui” celebration shout.

On Saturday, about 8,000 fans came to Portugal’s open training session. Many of them were just hoping to catch a glimpse of the 39-year-old former Real Madrid star.

Thousands of fans wore fake Ronaldo shirts to the game, but they couldn’t see the all-time leading scorer in Euros goals score on a difficult night against a strong Czech team.

Ronaldo had three chances to score, but goalie Jindrich Stanek stopped them all. He also headed the ball against the post, but he was offside.

Diogo Jota scored on the rebound, but the goal was ruled out because Ronaldo, a player for Al Nassr, had touched the ball too much.

Portuguese didn’t need to worry because 21-year-old Porto winger Conceicao scored from close range. His father, Sergio Conceicao, used to play for Portugal.

“Francisco is the ultimate example of earning it, he deserves to be here and showed he is ready to help the group,” Martinez said.

The former Wigan and Everton coach defended how his team played.

“Today we won, because the group is united, it’s a very resilient group, we became resilient over the past few days,” he stated.

“It would have been easy to blame each other after giving up, but we didn’t.” We worked together.

After figɦting so hard and almost getting a point, the Czechs were in a lot of paiɳ.

“It hurts so much when you work so hard for 90 minutes and still lose,” said Provod, the Czech player who scored the goal.

“The people who played defense did a great job.” Just a little more luck would have helped.”