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Watch out, U-20 World Cup: Portugal seems to have woken up.

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There are four players in Portugal's squad at the 2017 Men's U-20 World Cup who are not attached to one of the country's big three clubs: Benfica, Sporting, or Porto. And it was one of those players - Braga's Xadas - who sparked Portugal to its biggest and most comfortable win of this competition to date.

For a team that was only in the round of 16 thanks to a late own-goal in its last game of the group stage, the apparent discovery of form and confidence was in the nick of time.