Colombia and Portugal played out a goalless draw in Miami. | Photo Credit: REUTERS

Colombia and Portugal played out an entertaining goalless draw to round out their group-stage campaigns in Miami on June 27.

Both teams were already assured of qualification coming into the match, and the stalemate means that Colombia qualifies as group winner with Portugal as runner-up.

Colombia will now play Ghana on July 3, and Portugal will play Croatia a day earlier.

Los Cafeteros was the dominant side for most of the match, and thought it had won the match in second half injury-time when Davinson Sanchez headed in a short corner only for it to ruled offside.

This is the first time Colombia has played out a goalless draw at the FIFA World Cup.

PLAYER RATINGS

Colombia: Vargas (7.9); Arias (7.8), Sanchez (7.2), Lucumi (7.0), Machado (7.2); Arias (7.8), Lerma (6.6), Puerta (6.9); James Rodriguez (7.8), Cordoba (6.1), Diaz (6.5). Subs: Rios (6.2), Suarez (5.9), Quinteros (5.9), Castano (6.1).

Portugal: Costa (8.2); Cancelo (6.5), Dias (7.4), Veiga (7.4), Mendes (7.5); Neves (6.5), Vitinha (7.6); Neto (6.6), Fernandes (7.1), Felix (6.4); Ronaldo (6.3). Subs: Dalot (6.9), Neves (6.2), Samu (6.5), Leao (6.6).

Published on Jun 28, 2026