OPALENICA (Poland), June 23: Portugal are confident they could beat Germany at the second team of asking should the pair meet in the Euro 2012 final, defender Ricardo Costa told a news conference on Saturday.

The Portuguese, who will play France or Spain in the semi-finals on Wednesday, hit the bar twice in the second half of a closely-fought 1-0 group-stage defeat by the Germans.

“When it comes to the match against Germany, we are a different squad now,” Costa told reporters at the team’s base in western Poland. “I think that in the second-half we proved that we can beat the Germans and I think the result wasn’t fair in the end.

“But let’s not speak too much about Germany because we don’t know if they’ll get to the final and we don’t know if we get to the final, so let’s see what happens.”—Reuters