{"id":367,"date":"2026-07-03T03:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2026-07-03T03:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:49:05","slug":"ramos-ronaldo-score-as-portugal-comes-back-to-beat-croatia-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Ramos, Ronaldo score as Portugal comes back to beat Croatia 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/egyptian-gazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_8263.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ramos, Ronaldo score as Portugal comes back to beat Croatia 2-1\" title=\"Ramos, Ronaldo score as Portugal comes back to beat Croatia 2-1\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Goncalo Ramos headed in a pass from Rafael Leao in stoppage time as Cristiano Ronaldo, who had earlier converted a penalty kick, watched from the bench as Portugal defeated Croatia 2-1, ending Luka Modri\u0107\u2019s fifth bid for a World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronaldo initially tied things up in the 68th minute on a penalty kick to equalize and give the megastar his first knockout stage goal at the World Cup, but it was Ramos who gave Portugal the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game ended in controversy as Croatia thought it had tied things up 2-2 in the very last moments, but Mario Pasalic was called offside as VAR ruled no goal. Croatia fans threw bottles on the field and whistled in protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Croatia opened the scoring in the 53rd minute when Ivan Perisic scored in the 53rd minute off a cross from Josip Sanisic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Portugal moves on to face Spain on Monday in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modri\u0107 led Croatia to second- and third-place finishes in 2018 and 2022 but could not come back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Goncalo Ramos headed in a pass from Rafael Leao in stoppage time as Cristiano Ronaldo, who had earlier converted a penalty kick, watched from the bench as Portugal defeated Croatia 2-1, ending Luka Modri\u0107\u2019s fifth bid for a World Cup. Ronaldo initially tied things up in the 68th minute on a penalty kick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/egyptian-gazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_8263.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[756,39,755,752,753,754],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-beat","tag-croatia","tag-portugal","tag-ramos","tag-ronaldo","tag-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}