Ronaldo, Portugal play Colombia in World Cup: Prediction, kickoff, schedule

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Who: Colombia vs Portugal
What: FIFA World Cup 2026 Group K match
Where: Hard Rock Stadium, Miami
When: Saturday, 7:30pm section clip (23:30 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 20:30 GMT up of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.

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One of the biggest radical games of the 2026 World Cup takes spot successful Miami connected Saturday erstwhile Colombia look Portugal successful a conflict of Group K’s apical two.

Colombia, powered by Luis Diaz and Daniel Munoz, person already booked their summons to the round of 32 arsenic the existent table-toppers, portion Cristiano Ronaldo-led Portugal, who are second, are besides assured of a knockout berth.

Those standings could alteration aft Saturday’s fixture astatine Hard Rock Stadium, wherever a capableness assemblage is expected aft tickets reportedly sold for thousands of dollars.

Al Jazeera tells you everything you request to cognize astir Colombia vs Portugal:

Portugal expect ‘away’ ambiance successful Miami

Spearheaded by the larger-than-life beingness of superstar Ronaldo, Portugal are a immense and fashionable gully globally – but for this match, Colombia volition clasp the spectator borderline astatine Hard Rock Stadium.

With hundreds of thousands of Colombian Americans surviving successful ‌the Miami metropolitan area, the Colombian squad has a partisan assemblage down them. In the lead-up, Portugal manager Roberto Martinez remarked that his broadside would beryllium playing “away from home” portion acknowledging the tremendous hype astir the last matchday for some teams.

Colombia vs Portugal is the astir in-demand fixture of each 72 group-stage games, according to The Athletic, with 5 cardinal summons requests made successful the archetypal 24 hours of the Random Selection Draw successful December.

“It means I had to bargain tickets for my household successful November,” Martinez quipped erstwhile asked astir the instrumentality dedication. “That’s what it means, due to the fact that I knew it was going to beryllium hard to get tickets.”

“I deliberation it’s fascinating. The passionateness of the crippled successful a hard infinitesimal successful the world. Football inactive brings unity, it brings passion, it brings inspiration for the kids … So I anticipation shot wins and inspiration of anyone that watches the game.”

While Colombia person reached ⁠the knockout stages with six points from 2 games, Portugal beryllium 2nd connected 4 points and are each but through. Finishing 2nd could springiness them a tougher way successful the knockout stage, with England oregon Croatia imaginable opponents.

Portugal bid up of their crippled against Colombia, wherever they’ll beryllium aiming to gain the apical spot [Leonardo Fernandez/Getty Images via AFP]

Colombia manager warns squad against Ronaldo, Vitinha

Colombia manager Nestor Lorenzo said his squad volition request “special tactical discipline” against Portugal, whom helium considers 1 of the favourites to triumph the tournament. The Colombians request to debar decision to beforehand arsenic radical winners, but Lorenzo was taking thing for granted against the No 5 broadside successful the FIFA satellite rankings.

“We’ll effort to support our benignant and our footballing identity,” helium said.

“But without a doubt, we person to wage attraction to the different characteristics and strengths [that Portugal] has. It’s a precise well-coached team. They person a manager and players who are astatine the elite level of satellite shot … and ‌that shows successful their game.”

Lorenzo besides said Colombia volition beryllium wary of the menace posed by Ronaldo, who scored twice successful the past match, and Vitinha, the antiaircraft midfielder known for his shot control, enactment complaint and playmaking abilities.

“Both Vitinha and Ronaldo are decisive players. One successful the organisation of the crippled and the prime of his playmaking, and the different successful finishing,” helium added. “So we perfectly cannot permission them unsocial oregon neglect them. Hopefully, the squad corporate volition beryllium well-oiled.”

Colombia are acceptable to diagnostic successful the World Cup knockouts for the archetypal clip since 2018, having failed to suffice for the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar.

Wing-back Daniel Munoz has been a standout subordinate successful the Colombia squad, with 2 goals successful 2 games [Ulises Ruiz/AFP]

Colombia vs Portugal prediction

Opta’s supercomputer has calculated a 48.9 percent probability of Portugal winning this fixture, portion Colombia is assessed a 26 percent accidental of victory. There is simply a 25.1 percent probability of the crippled ending successful a draw.

Overall, Colombia are favourites to decorativeness connected apical of Group G, with a 53.32 percent probability, according to Opta.

Colombia vs Portugal: Kickoff time, TV channel

• Colombia: DSPORTS, RCN TELEVISION SA, CARACOL, DGO (6:30pm Colombia Standard Time)
• Portugal: RTP 1, RTP Play, LiveModeTV, SPORT.TV5 (00:30am connected Sunday, Western European Summer Time)
• United Kingdom: BBC iPlayer, BBC One, Red Button 1 (00:30 americium connected Sunday, British Summer Time)
• USA: FOX, FOX One, Telemundo App, Telemundo Network, Peacock, (7:30pm, Eastern Daylight Time)

To cheque the TV listings for your country, caput to FIFA’s TV listing schedule here.

What’s the script successful Group K?

Colombia (six points) and Portugal (four points) are assured of a round of 32 berth each arsenic the apical 2 teams. The Democratic Republic of the Congo are 3rd with 1 point, and Uzbekistan bottommost with zero.

The apical 2 teams from each of the 12 groups, on with the 8 champion third-placed teams, volition proceed to the circular of 32.

DR Congo person to bushed Uzbekistan to basal a accidental of advancing via the third-place squad route.

Can Portugal decorativeness connected apical of Group K?

Yes, Portugal tin topple Colombia from archetypal spot successful Group K if they bushed the South Americans. Currently, they person a two-point difference.

If Portugal gully with Colombia oregon suffer to them, Ronaldo’s broadside volition stay second.

What’s the payment of winning a group?

Group winners commencement their knockout run against a third-placed squad from different group.

In this case, the Group G victor volition look a third-placed squad from Group D, E, I, J oregon L successful the circular of 32 successful Kansas City connected July 3.

Form guide

(Last 5 games, latest first)

Colombia: W-W-W-W-L

Portugal: W-D-W-W-W

Both teams person a coagulated grounds implicit the past 5 matches, with Portugal edging Colombia with an unbeaten streak implicit that period.

Portugal thrashed Uzbekistan 5-0 and were held to a 1-1 gully by DR Congo successful the archetypal crippled of the World Cup. They defeated Nigeria and Chile successful pre-World Cup friendlies and bushed the USA successful a March friendly.

Colombia defeated DR Congo 1-0 and Uzbekistan 3-1 astatine the tournament. Before that, they bushed Jordan and Costa Rica successful June friendlies but mislaid to France successful a March accumulation fixture.

Portugal person scored six goals crossed 2 matches astatine the tournament, including a treble from Cristiano Ronaldo [Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP]

Colombia vs Portugal: Team news

No injuries person been reported by either Colombia oregon Portugal.

Colombia predicted lineup

(4-3-3): Vargas (goalkeeper); Munoz, Sanchez, Lucumi, Mojica; Puerta, Lerma, Arias; Rodriguez, Suarez, Diaz

Portugal predicted lineup

(4-2-3-1): Costa (goalkeeper); Cancelo, Dias, Veiga, Mendes; Neves, Vitinha; Neto, Fernandes, Felix, Ronaldo

Luis Diaz is 1 of Colombia’s astir lethal attackers [Eloisa Sanchez/Reuters]