{"id":395046,"date":"2022-12-06T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395046"},"modified":"2022-12-06T16:43:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:43:23","slug":"portugal-demolish-switzerland-ronaldos-replacement-shines","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/portugal-demolish-switzerland-ronaldos-replacement-shines\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal demolish Switzerland, Ronaldo&#8217;s replacement shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gonsalo Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s replacement, bagged a hat-trick as Portugal thrashed Switzerland 6-1 to book their place at the World Cup quarterfinals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A perfect night for Portugal! <\/p>\n<p>The Round of 16 comes to a close. It&#39;s time for the Quarter-Finals \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@adidasfootball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1600232523237396483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old striker, who only made his Portugal debut last month, demonstrated the kind of clinical finishing Ronaldo was once known for in his first start for his country.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos opened the scoring in the 17th minute and added others in the 51st and 67th \u2014 by which time chants of \u201cRONALDO! RONALDO!\u201d were swirling around the 89,000-seat Lusail Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-395050 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/por-swi.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Ronaldo came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute to loud cheers, though Portugal had the game wrapped up by then with defenders Pepe and Raphael Guerreiro also scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Milan forward Rafael Leao added another goal in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The future is looking bright for Portugal \u2728 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Qatar2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bd7d6r1OTM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Bd7d6r1OTM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1600233548799037440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Manuel Akanji netted the consolation for Switzerland with the score already 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal reached the quarterfinals for the third time, after 1966 and 2006, and will face Morocco, who knocked out Spain, on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonsalo Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s replacement, bagged a hat-trick as Portugal thrashed Switzerland 6-1 to book their place at the World Cup quarterfinals on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395047,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904,17054],"news_category":[16671,14235,14236,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Gonsalo Ramos scored a hat-trick in his first start for his country","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395046"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395046"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}