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3 Things Portugal Should Test in Friendly vs. Estonia

Thursday’s 1-0 defeat to England at Wembley might have ended in miserable fashion for the visiting Portuguese thanks to Chris Smalling’s late winner, but it would have given coach Fernando Santos plenty of food for thought ahead of the Euro 2016 finals.

With the final week of preparations now coming into view, Santos will look to use Wednesday’s friendly against Estonia in Lisbon as the final chance to put plans into place for his assault on Group F.

Iceland, Austria and Hungary are opponents in France for a Portuguese side seemingly travelling with very little expectation, and after a largely impressive defensive display in London following Bruno Alves’ first-half red card, it’ll be attack on the agenda against Estonia in the nation’s capital.