{"id":484636,"date":"2024-06-26T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484636"},"modified":"2024-06-26T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:18:39","slug":"georgia-shock-portugal-to-advance-to-the-1-8-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/georgia-shock-portugal-to-advance-to-the-1-8-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia shock Portugal to advance to the 1\/8 finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia won against Portugal led by Cristiano Ronaldo 2-0 at Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen as that was historic 1<sup>st<\/sup> win at Euro or World Cup for the nation and also historic 1<sup>st<\/sup> advantage to the elimination phase in such tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia and Napoli superstar Khvicha Kvaratskhelia secured the lead with the 5<sup>th<\/sup> fastest goal in Euro competition as he needed only 2 minutes as the assist provided Georges Mikautadze.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddea Debutants Georgia book last-16 spot!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EURO2024<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GEOPOR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GEOPOR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2YwghjKT01\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2YwghjKT01<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UEFA EURO 2024 (@EURO2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EURO2024\/status\/1806069608946004149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 2nd half, after VAR, Georgia received a penalty that Metz forward Georges Mikautadze converted in the 57th minute to give a 2-goal lead with only half an hour until the end of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia kept the lead until the end and advanced to the 1\/8 finals as one of the 4 3rd best teams in the Euro in Germany. Despite the defeat, Portugal had already topped Group F and knew that they will play against Slovenia at the 1\/8 finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Respect \ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EURO2024<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GEOPOR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GEOPOR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2NAYO6bu0f\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2NAYO6bu0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UEFA EURO 2024 (@EURO2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EURO2024\/status\/1806064319244767556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Georgia will face Spain in the 1\/8 finals as the team will be a huge underdog but the fans can believe after what they did tonight against Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia won against Portugal led by Cristiano Ronaldo 2-0 at Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen as that was historic 1st win at Euro or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484637,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17082,19381,17054],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18422,19384,18409],"acf":{"announce":"Georgia records historic 1st victory in European competition.","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\/484636"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484646,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484636\/revisions\/484646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484636"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484636"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}