In Group F, the "death group" of Euro football with France and Germany, Portugal beat Hungary (3-0) on Tuesday night for their first match in the competition.
His flagship striker, Cristiano Ronaldo, scored a brace and thus surpassed the record of goals in the competition of the French Michel Platini.
For the first of the group F match of the competition, Portugal won (3-0) late Tuesday afternoon in Budapest against Hungary in a full stadium.
The reigning European champions ideally launched their Euro against the team considered to be the weakest of this group of death with Germany and the France team.
The Hungarians will have to react against France for their next match.
A last quarter of an hour saving for Portugal
In a complicated match, the Portuguese, dominating, stumbled for a long time on a solid Hungarian defense with five, as well as on a very good Peter Gulacsi, the Hungarian goalkeeper of the German club RB Leipzig. But they finally got the better of their opponents at the end of the match, thanks first of all to a somewhat lucky goal from their defender Raphaël Guerreiro (84th), the ball having been lightly touched by a Hungarian defender before finishing at the bottom of the nets.
Star Cristiano Ronaldo then doubled down on the penalty spot three minutes later.
Then he scored a double in added time (92nd).
Until the last quarter of an hour, however, the match seemed far from won for the reigning European champions who had nevertheless had some clear chances, as on a pivot strike from their striker Diogo Jota at the 39th stopped by Peter Gulacsi.
For their part, Hungary struggled to come out of their camp but tried to get situations and even believed to open the scoring in the 79th minute, with the offside goal finally being offside.
The player: Cristiano Ronaldo enters a little more into the legend
Holder at the kick-off, the five-time Golden Ball and captain of his team entered a little more into the legend by being the first player to play at least one meeting in five different Euros (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020). A record in football. The Portuguese also exceeded the record for goals in the competition he co-held with Michel Platini, with nine goals, scoring a brace. The Frenchman had however scored his nine goals in one and the same competition, Euro 1984.
It was initially believed that Ronaldo had missed his chance in the 43rd minute when he found himself alone in front of goal and his shot flew into the stands of the Budapest stadium.
But after a collision by the arm of a Portuguese player in the box, he finally transformed a penalty with a hard strike to his right.
Ronaldo then scored a brace in added time.
The Juventus Turin striker is already the player who has played the most games (22 with the one against Hungary) ahead of Bastian Schweinsteiger (18) and Gianluigi Buffon (17) in the competition.
The Portuguese will also be able to aim for the record for national goals.
He is currently at 106, against 109 for Iranian Ali Daei.
A match in front of a packed stadium
Scene made unusual with the Covid-19, the match between Portugal and Hungary was played in a packed Puskas Arena.
In total, more than 65,000 spectators attended the victory of the Portuguese, unprecedented in a Hungarian stadium, according to the daily Nemzeti Sport, for 35 years and a match against Brazil before the World Cup-1986.
Where the ten other stadiums across Europe to host the competition have established a maximum level, as health precautions against Covid-19, the Budapest enclosure was the first since the confinements of March 2020 to 100% of its capacity.