{"id":55922,"date":"2026-10-02T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55922"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:41:15","slug":"portugal-cruise-to-victory-without-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/portugal-cruise-to-victory-without-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal cruise to victory without Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Oct 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Portugal secured a comfortable 4\u20132 victory over Denmark in the UEFA Nations League on Thursday night, despite being without veteran forward and captain Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>Playing at Parken Stadium, Portugal extended their winning run to three matches, with Jo\u00e3o Cancelo, Gon\u00e7alo Ramos, Vitinha and Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix all getting on the scoresheet. Denmark\u2019s goals came from Mikkel Damsgaard and Rasmus H\u00f8jlund.<\/p>\n<p>Cancelo opened the scoring in the 13th minute, giving Portugal an early lead. Denmark responded 10 minutes later through Damsgaard, who levelled the score at 1\u20131.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos restored Portugal\u2019s advantage in the 25th minute, but H\u00f8jlund brought Denmark level again in the 53rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Vitinha put Portugal back in front in the 67th minute before F\u00e9lix sealed the victory with an 87th-minute goal.<\/p>\n<p>The win leaves Portugal top of Group A4 with nine points from three matches, while Denmark remain second with three points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Oct 2:\u00a0Portugal secured a comfortable 4\u20132 victory over Denmark in the UEFA Nations League on Thursday night, despite being without veteran forward and captain Cristiano Ronaldo. Playing at Parken Stadium, Portugal extended their winning run to three matches, with Jo\u00e3o Cancelo, Gon\u00e7alo Ramos, Vitinha and Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix all getting on the scoresheet. Denmark\u2019s goals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55925,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55922\/revisions\/55925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}