{"id":470156,"date":"2023-11-18T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470156"},"modified":"2023-11-18T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T20:00:09","slug":"two-early-goals-give-croatia-crucial-win-over-latvia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/two-early-goals-give-croatia-crucial-win-over-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Two early goals give Croatia crucial win over Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia took a crucial 2-0 win over Latvia, which puts them just a step away from Euro 2024 spot on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Early strikes from Lavro Majer and Andrej Kramaric was all it took to give the visitors a comfortable advantage in Riga and they never looked back.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf7 Croatia are only one win away from qualifying to EURO 2024!<\/p>\n<p>After defeating Latvia today, they can secure their spot at EURO 2024 by defeating Armenia at home on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2 Armenia are eliminated now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TwmMNFnAys\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TwmMNFnAys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Football Rankings (@FootRankings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootRankings\/status\/1725950126219301217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wales slip up earlier today means the Croats can secure a spot for Euro 2024 with a victory over Armenia on Tuesday or if Wales fail to win their game.<\/p>\n<p>Zlatko Dalic&#8217; men were in possession throughout most of the game and established full control over the game.<\/p>\n<p>They now have 13 points out of possible 21 and the destiny is fully in their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia took a crucial 2-0 win over Latvia, which puts them just a step away from Euro 2024 spot on Saturday night. Early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":470157,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16940,17082,19473],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[19861,18422,19474],"acf":{"announce":"The 2018 World Cup runners-up can breathe a sigh of relief as they are just a step closer to qualification","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\/470156"}],"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=470156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470159,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470156\/revisions\/470159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470156"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470156"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}