{"id":5737,"date":"2026-07-03T12:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:45:06","slug":"world-cup-2026-portugal-knocks-out-croatia-2-1-and-will-face-spain-in-the-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/world-cup-2026-portugal-knocks-out-croatia-2-1-and-will-face-spain-in-the-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Portugal knocks out Croatia (2-1) and will face Spain in the round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Portugal, one of the favorites for the World Cup, qualified for the round of 16 by overturning the game against Croatia (2-1) in a dramatic finish, with a late equalizer denied by VAR in the final seconds, on Thursday in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Portugal, one of the favorites for the World Cup, qualified for the round of 16 by overturning Croatia in a dramatic finish (2-1), with Croatia having a last-minute equalizer denied by VAR on Thursday in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Portuguese, winners thanks to goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored a penalty (68th minute), and Gon\u00e7alo Ramos (90+4), will face Spain, who beat Austria (3-0), on Monday in Dallas. For Luka Modric and Ivan Perisic, the scorer (53rd minute), 2018 finalists and 2022 semi-finalists, this match might have been their last with the national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal, one of the favorites for the World Cup, qualified for the round of 16 by overturning the game against Croatia (2-1) in a dramatic finish, with a late equalizer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-sport","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}