{"id":466009,"date":"2023-10-16T16:59:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T20:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466009"},"modified":"2023-10-16T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T21:00:25","slug":"merciless-portugal-destroy-bosnia-5-0-in-1st-half-with-ronaldo-brace","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/merciless-portugal-destroy-bosnia-5-0-in-1st-half-with-ronaldo-brace\/","title":{"rendered":"Merciless Portugal destroy Bosnia 5-0 in 1st half with Ronaldo brace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal demolished Bosnia and Herzegovina 5-0 away from home on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese were merciless and controlled the game all throughout, giving their opponent no chance whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 5th minute from the penalty spot. The 38-year-old doubled the visitors lead soon after with a fine finish from Joao Felix&#8217; assist.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>FULL-TIME:<\/p>\n<p>A man of the match performance from the 38 year old Cristiano Ronaldo to give Portugal all 3 points and a 8th consecutive victory for the first time in their history. \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cXUl4dwK8a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cXUl4dwK8a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The CR7 Timeline. (@TimelineCR7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimelineCR7\/status\/1714019786748002528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The avalanche of attacks did not stop there as Portugal scored 3 more goals in a matter of couple of minutes to make it 5-0 before the half-time interval.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Portugal were just controlling the pace and closing out the match.<\/p>\n<p>It is Roberto Martinez 8th consecutive victory in the qualifiers with the team managing to score a staggering 32 goals with only 2 allowed. If they manage to keep that kind of form for next summer, then they will certainly will be looking for the big trophy in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal demolished Bosnia and Herzegovina 5-0 away from home on Monday night. The Portuguese were merciless and controlled the game all throughout, giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":466010,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904,17054],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[21788,17961,18409],"acf":{"announce":"Roberto Martinez showed no signs of stopping even tough they already secured a spot in Euro 2024","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\/466009"}],"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=466009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466012,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466009\/revisions\/466012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466009"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466009"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}