Francisco Meixedo on Diogo Costa: “He stepped up more than expected” | OneFootball

Francisco Meixedo was one of the players present in the early hours of this Sunday at the Betano Medialivre Fan Zone, in Gaia, to watch the match between Portugal and Colombia, which ended in a goalless draw. Already qualified for the round of 32, the team of the quinas thus finished the group stage in 2nd place in Group K, after a match in which the standout figure was between the posts.

We are talking, of course, about Diogo Costa, the national team’s goalkeeper, who produced six top-class saves and kept Portugal’s goal untouched. “It was another solid performance, the kind we were already used to,” Feirense’s goalkeeper said in an interview with Record, having notably crossed paths with the Portuguese international in FC Porto’s youth ranks: “Today [early Sunday morning] Diogo was there when needed, perhaps more often than we were expecting.”

“He is a great goalkeeper, easily world-class, and we’re very fortunate to have him in our national team,” Francisco Meixedo, 25, also stressed. It should be remembered that, even before the match, the goalkeeper, who has previously been capped at under-21 level, had given his view on what it means to represent Portugal at the highest level.

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