The home side searched to be setting out toward a humiliating draw yet were spared once more by their talisman
Cristiano Ronaldo acted the hero as his late champ saw Portugal grab a slender 1-0 win over Albania.
In mesh the champ, the Real Madrid forward turned into the record-breaking heading goalscorer in European Championship capability and finals consolidated, his 23rd strike seeing him overwhelm Jon Dahl Tomasson and Hakan Sukur.
It was his 25th objective of the season for club and nation, and settled a sullen issue which offered minimal in the method for assaulting quality.
That will be of no worry to Portugal, in any case, who overwhelmed ownership for a great part of the diversion lastly made the achievement in the 72nd moment when Ronaldo constrained the ball over the line at the second endeavor.
The result leaves Portugal second in Group I, possessing a programmed capability detect, one point behind Denmark.
Armenia, who safeguarded unshakably for a significant part of the experience, stay at the foot of the table with only one point to their name from three matches.
There were striking incorporations at full-once more for Portugal, with Jose Bosinwga showing up for a long time, while Rapahel Guerreiro made his worldwide presentation.
The hosts had much the better of the opening quarter of a hour, however it was Armenia who had the first significant exertion on objective when Rui Patricio got down low to his entitlement to keep out Henrikh Mkhitaryan's free-kick after the Borussia Dortmund man had been felled via Ricardo Carvalho.
Ronaldo debilitated surprisingly halfway through the half, seeing his shot parried by Roman Berezovski before blasting the bounce back high and wide.
As the amusement opened up, Patricio was constrained into a recovery by Gevorg Ghazaryan after a quick counter-assault from the guests.
Portugal kept on getting a charge out of the larger part of ownership after the interim, and Danny went near an opener when his circling header struck the highest point of the crossbar before being held by Berezovski under weight from Ronaldo.
The forward kept on poing a risk, and rightfully conveyed the telling blow 18 minutes from time.
Substitute Ricardo Quaresma brought a recovery out of Berezovski and after Nani cut the detached ball towards objective, Ronaldo was close by to package over the line.
It was the Real Madrid star who had netted a stoppage-time champ in the 1-0 triumph over Denmark last time out, and he conveyed when it mattered by and by.
Eder struck the base of the post with a header a moment from time as Portugal went looking for a moment, yet Ronaldo's objective was sufficient to secure each of the three focuses from what was a worked execution.
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