Euro 2024 qualifying match against Luxembourg
Ronaldo does not play due to accumulated warnings
9-0 win with multiple goals from Hamus and Jota
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Cristiano Ronaldo. AP Yonhap News Portugal was strong even without Cristiano Ronaldo (Al Nasr). Portugal continued its winning streak in the 2024 European Football Championship (Euro 2024) qualifiers, setting a record for victory by the largest goal difference ever.
Portugal won 9-0 against Luxembourg in the 6th match of Group J of the Euro 2024 qualifiers held at the Augarve Stadium in Aumanciou, Portugal on the 12th (Korean time). This is Portugal’s record for the largest goal difference win in an A match.
The record of victory on this day has greater meaning because it was achieved without Ronaldo, who has been the center of the Portuguese national team for nearly 20 years. Ronaldo was unable to play today due to accumulated warnings from previous qualifying matches.
Gonzalo Hamus (Paris Saint-Germain), who is expected to replace Ronaldo, led the team to victory by scoring two goals in the first half alone. Gonzalo Inacio (Sporting) scored the first goal in the 12th minute of the first half by finishing Bruno Fernands’ (Manchester United) cross with a header that only changed direction, and in the 17th minute, Hamus scored an additional goal with a sharp left-footed ground ball from the right side of the goal area. . In the 33rd minute of the first half, Hamus beat a defender in the penalty area and fired a shot between the goalkeeper’s legs to make it 3-0.
Portugal finished the first half 4-0 with Inacio scoring one more goal, and Diogo Jota (Liverpool) scored multiple goals in the second half. Ricardo Orta (Braga), Fernandez, and Joao Felix (Barcelona) also hit the net.
Portugal is on a six-game winning streak in the Euro qualifiers under coach Roberto Martinez, who took office in January this year as the successor to coach Fernando Santos, who resigned after the 2022 Qatar World Cup. He is showing off his incredible performance by scoring a whopping 24 goals and not giving up a single goal. France is also maintaining a scoreless record in the Euro qualifiers, but France’s total score is 11 goals, less than half of Portugal’s.
On this day in Group D, Wales, who had drawn 0-0 in the friendly match against Korea, defeated Latvia 2-0.
Reporter Jang Hyeong-woo
2023-09-12 14:47:29
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