Portugal glad to fulfil their promise

Captain Arnaldo was proud that his side had "finally delivered what was expected of us" as Portugal beat Serbia 5-1 in Budapest to set up a tie with Azerbaijan in the UEFA European Futsal Championship semi-finals.

On song
After a 5-5 draw against Belarus and a 6-1 loss to Spain, Portugal barely scraped into the knockout stage, but were at their absolute best at the Papp László Arena, assailing Serbia with a dazzling array of speedy counterattacks and relentless pressing. "We finally delivered what everyone expected from us," Arnaldo told uefa.com. "This time we showed just how well we were prepared for our opponents.

'Perfect game'
"We had what I like to call the perfect game," he added. "We analysed Serbia exhaustively and there was always that extra will to prove our worth that is so important in tournaments like this. Now we must continue to push on and we can't only have one perfect game. Azerbaijan is next for us. We faced them in qualifying. If we play like we did tonight it will be very difficult for any team to beat us."

Final destination
Coach Orlando Duarte enjoyed a bus trip around the Hungarian capital during his brief stay in Budapest, but liked what he saw in the match even better, and said: "Our first two matches were like warm-up games. We were a little bit lucky to qualify, but now it is down to how well we can perform. We have not booked our flight home until 31 January and we want to go home having reached the final."

'That was it'
Serbia anchorman Marko Perić was "not that disappointed" to have lost, adding: "The only problem was the scoreline; the margin was too big. At 1-0 down we had a great chance to equalise and right away we conceded on the counterattack. Then another individual mistake made it 3-0 and I realised right away that was it for today and there was no coming back."

'David v Goliath'
While disappointed not to have reached the semi-finals, Serbia coach Aca Kovačević conceded "before we came here our aim was the quarter-finals; this is a good result given the standard of our league". He will also be leaving Budapest with great memories of their 4-3 win against Russia "and the happiness of our players; we like the David v Goliath thing in Serbia".