Ronaldo is confident of Portugal's chance after beating Czech

Ronaldo is confident of Portugal's chance to reach the final and ultimately crown the EURO 2012. Lat night, Portugal saw off Czech 1-0 in Warsaw with a header by Real Madrid's star.

Before sealing the victory for Portugal, Ronaldo hit the woodwork twice and on other occasions Chelsea's goalkeeper, Cech, was just too good.

The performance last night once again proved that Portugal has what it takes to go far in EURO 2012. Started on the wrong foot on a rather unfortunate loss against Germany, Portugal improved as games went by. Attacking and creating many chances but unable to convert to the scoreline, Portuguese players did not show any frustration, and it paid off. They played beautiful football last night and deserved to win.

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Ronaldo netted the winner to seal 1-0 win for Portugal

Speaking after the win, Ronaldo said: "We created many chances and hit the post, but it is brilliant for us to have passed into the semi-finals. We know it is going to be difficult, but we are ready, we are confident. We are very mature, so we are ready for the fight."

Portugal coach Paulo Bento felt his side grew into the game and deserved their place in the semi-finals.

"We did not start the match well in attack for the first 25 minutes, then we showed a great response in the second half, a great capacity to respond to the Czechs and that is why we really deserved this victory,'' Bento told a press conference. "We had prepared ourselves in the best possible way for their strategy.

"We knew they would try to defend very deeply and would press against us on the counter-attack, because they have very quick players who are good technically.

"As the game went on we controlled the match, we played better and had more chances to create our own game.''

Despite Ronaldo grabbing the headlines, Bento was reluctant to single out any individual performances.

"All the players have tasks on the pitch, and Ronaldo played to our tactical system,'' the Portugal coach said. "He has the capacity to play in the penalty area, but also a little deeper.''

Bento maintains his side will be ready for whomever they face in Donetsk next Wednesday night.

"In the semi-finals of a tournament like this, there are always great teams with different characteristics who are well organised with players of great quality,'' he said. "We do not prefer [to play] anybody. It has been a lot of work by us to reach the semi-finals and we will try to recover to reach the pitch in the best condition.

"We will show the response which is necessary. Our aim will be to win against France or Spain. There cannot be any other goal for us.''