Portugal are hoping to achieve the last four of the European Championship for the fourth time in five competitions as they face Poland in the quarter-last.
Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal achieved the quarter-last after an overwhelming last-16 conflict with Croatia, where a 117th-minute Ricardo Quaresma objective saw them through.
Marseille will see Real Madrid forward Ronaldo up against Poland and Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski, with the pair hitting a joined 93 objectives in the 2015/16 season for their clubs.
Poland, who have achieved the last eight of a noteworthy competition interestingly since the World Cup in 1982, beat Switzerland on punishments in the last 16.
The victors will confront a semi-last conflict with either Wales or Belgium, who conflict in Lille on Friday night.
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Lukasz Fabianski is set to proceed in the middle of the sticks for Poland as Wojciech Szczesny still battles with a thigh harm.
Portugal have been helped by the arrival of Andre Gomes and Raphael Guerreiro to preparing ahead. The two players joined the principle bunch in the morning session on Wednesday in the wake of sitting out two days of practice.
Guard Guerreiro and midfielder Gomes began Portugal's 1-0 additional time triumph over Croatia in the last 16 however maintained minor strong issues.
Portugal mentor Fernando Santos is relied upon to have every one of his players accessible to face Poland on Thursday.
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This will be Poland and Portugal's third experience at a noteworthy competition, their first in the European Championships.
They have so far won one every: 1-0 to Poland at the 1986 World Cup and 4-0 to Portugal at the 2002 World Cup.
Poland are unbeaten in their last three head-to-heads with Portugal (W1 D2).
Poland have made it to the quarter-finals of the European Championship without precedent for their history. The main past time they achieved the semis of a noteworthy competition was in the 1982 World Cup.
Poland have never scored more than one objective in a solitary diversion at the European Championship (10 recreations). Really, none of their 10 amusements in the opposition has created more than two objectives (scored + surrendered).
Poland are indeed the most reduced scoring side among those to have made it to the quarter-finals (3 objectives in 4 amusements).
Poland have yet to trail anytime in an amusement at the current year's European Championships. They've just surrendered one objective so far in four diversions.
Portugal have played the most recreations in the historical backdrop of the European Championships while never winning the competition: 32 diversions, 0 trophy.
Poland are situated in La Baule, an exquisite shoreline resort on the French Atlantic drift that England utilized as their base amid the 1998 World Cup. It says something in regards to football's varying mentalities that Lewandowski's strike accomplice, Arkadiusz Milik, was totally shocked a journalist from Polish TV proposed he and his buddies were on the "edge of godlikeness". Ronaldo would have known unequivocally what the examiner was getting at.
At the point when Poland met all requirements for the European Championship, Milik was requested that who he needed play. The 22-year-old, who has worked intimately with Dennis Bergkamp since touching base at Ajax, said Portugal as it would mean confronting Ronaldo: "On the grounds that he is the world's best case of what you can accomplish through diligent work."
His director, Adam Nawalka, has become fatigued of being gotten some information about Lewandowski's structure. Like Terry Venables at whatever point Alan Shearer's absence of objectives was addressed before Euro 96, Nawalka discusses his commitment to the group, the way he makes space for others. He can't discuss Lewandowski's objectives in light of the fact that there have not been any.
Lewandowski has been the competition's most fouled footballer, an award Ronaldo would be acquainted with. "Since Robert is one of the best strikers on the planet he is twofold and now and again triple stamped," said Nawalka, whose profession not at all like such a large number of in Polish football, has been played out completely in his local area. "Each endeavor to handle him is on the edge of a foul, they are attempting to dispense with him at any expense. Despite the fact that he is physically adapting to it exceptionally well, the arbitrators need to respond rapidly with yellow and red cards." That announcement was coordinated solidly at Pepe.
Poland, similar to Portugal, have a solitary, world-class footballer. Be that as it may, Robert Lewandowski, one of the pre-competition top choices to win the Golden Boot, has not really dealt with a shot on target. Lewandowski is not backing his yearning to leave Bayern Munich for Real Madrid with the sort of showcases that would make Real drive up their offer to overpowering levels.
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