Probable line ups:

Portugal:

Eduardo – Miguel, Carvalho, Bruno Alves, Duda – Pepe, Meireles – Simao, Deco, Nani, – Liedson  

Bosnia and Hercegovina:

Supic – Jahic, Nadarevic, Spahic - Salihovic, Pjanic, Rahimic, Muratovic, Misimovic, – Dzeko, Ibisevic

I expect a hard tactical battle between Portugal and Bosnia. That is why I think we wont see a lot of goals here. Portugal with be without most important player, Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid who is injured. But that’s not all as Bosingwa from Chelsea is also injured. And even with them Portugal failed to score against Albania (15.10.2008) and Sweden (28.03.2009) at home in current qualifications playing only goalless draw. The task will be more difficult without them.

Bosnia on other side is unknown team, but very dangerous according to me. They have young attackers, but very quality. Dzeko, Ibisevic as well as Misimovic are all playing in Germany Bundesliga and proved they are top class players. I think that Bosnia have one more advantage – couch Ciro Blazevic. He is very experienced couch and I rate him better then Carlos Queiroz from Portugal. He already couched Croatia to World cup in France and he knows how to prepare and motivate the players.

My conclusion is Portugal will attack, but at the same time they will must think on defence. After all, this is only first leg. The most important for Queiroz will be not to receive goal and after that to score. Bosnia on other side will be surely satisfied even with the small lost. Couch Ciro Blazevic was very open saying: “Honestly, I think that even a minimal defeat would be a good result for us in Portugal.” That’s mean Bosnia wont open the game even if they receive a goal. In such game Under seems a logical choice to me.