Portugal, minus Cristiano Ronaldo, thrashed Luxembourg 9-0 in a UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying group match Monday to secure a record victory.<\/p>\n
Portuguese players Goncalo Inacio, Goncalo Ramos and Diogo Jota scored twice each against Luxembourg in a Group J game in Portugal’s Estadio Algarve in Faro-Loule.<\/p>\n
Ricardo Horta, Bruno Fernandes and Joao Felix added one goal each to help Portugal take their biggest-ever win.<\/p>\n
Group J leaders Portugal have won all six of their matches to have 18 points. They scored 24 goals but conceded none.<\/p>\n
Second-place Slovakia have 13 points after beating Liechtenstein 3-0 in Bratislava.<\/p>\n
In the next match on Oct. 13, Portugal will host Slovakia in Porto.<\/p>\n
Luxembourg, who took a heavy loss Monday evening, are in third position with 10 points and will look for a mistake by Slovakia in the next matchdays but must win at Iceland first.<\/p>\n
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iceland have six points each to be quite desperate for the best two spots in the group.<\/p>\n
Liechtenstein lost all six of their matches to sit at the bottom of the group.<\/p>\n
Croatia top Group D with Armenia win<\/strong><\/p>\n Andrej Kramaric scored the winner in the first half as Croatia beat Armenia 1-0 in Yerevan to go to the top of Group D, which was previously led by T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n Croatia and T\u00fcrkiye have 10 points each to battle for the top position in the group.<\/p>\n The Croatians have a game in hand.<\/p>\n In the next fixture on Oct. 12, T\u00fcrkiye will visit Croatia in Osijek. A Luka Modric-led Croatia beat T\u00fcrkiye 2-0 in the first match in the western Turkish province of Bursa.<\/p>\n Armenia and Wales have seven points each in the group. Latvia do not have any points after losing five matches.<\/p>\n Monday’s results:<\/strong><\/p>\n Group D<\/p>\n Armenia – Croatia: 0-1<\/p>\n Latvia – Wales: 0-2<\/p>\n Group J<\/p>\n Iceland – Bosnia Herzegovina: 1-0<\/p>\n Portugal – Luxembourg: 9-0<\/p>\n Slovakia – Liechtenstein: 3-0<\/p>\n Source: Anadol<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Portugal, minus Cristiano Ronaldo, thrashed Luxembourg 9-0 in a UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying group match Monday to secure a record victory. Portuguese players Goncalo Inacio, Goncalo Ramos and Diogo Jota scored twice each against Luxembourg in a Group J game in Portugal’s Estadio Algarve in Faro-Loule. Ricardo Horta, Bruno Fernandes and Joao Felix added one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":420382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-420381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420383,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420381\/revisions\/420383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}