{"id":82366,"date":"2016-07-01T03:37:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T03:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/portugal-marches-to-the-semis-of-euro-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T03:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T03:37:57","slug":"portugal-marches-to-the-semis-of-euro-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/portugal-marches-to-the-semis-of-euro-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal marches to the semis of Euro 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/1 Jul\/uefa-euro-2016-portugal-vs-poland-live-stream-score-goals-teams-line-ups-prediction-1024x711.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW): Portugal overpowered Poland in the penalty shootout on Thursday to reach the semi finals of the Euro 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The game got off to a bright start for Poland with Robert Lewandowski scoring in the second minute but 18-year-old Renato Sanches found the net for the Portugal in 33rd minute to level the score. The sides could not be separated again after two hours of play.<\/p>\n<p>Poland focussed on defence and the game faded out, with the second half finishing goalless and the game heading into extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo passed up an opportunity early in extra-time and neither side could find the breakthrough, meaning a penalty shootout was needed to separate the two.<\/p>\n<p>During the penalty shootout seven attempts were executed (4-3), but it was Portuguese goalkeeper Rui Patricio, who dived to the left saving his team&rsquo;s goal from Poland&rsquo;s fourth penalty delivered by Poland&rsquo;s Jakub B\u0456aszczykowski.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese squad will clash next week for the place in the final match with the winner of the Wales-Belgium game, to be held in Lille on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW): Portugal overpowered Poland in the penalty shootout on Thursday to reach the semi finals of the Euro 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}