{"id":1262318,"date":"2022-12-06T22:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/ramos-scores-hat-trick-as-portugal-thrash\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T22:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:32:42","slug":"ramos-scores-hat-trick-as-portugal-thrash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/ramos-scores-hat-trick-as-portugal-thrash\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramos scores hat-trick as Portugal thrash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3504124-71429648-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Goncalo Ramos of Portugal celebrates after scoring the team's first goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match between Portugal and Switzerland at Lusail Stadium Image credit: Getty Images\" title=\"Goncalo Ramos of Portugal celebrates after scoring the team's first goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match between Portugal and Switzerland at Lusail Stadium  Image credit: Getty Images\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goncalo Ramos of Portugal celebrates after scoring the team&#8217;s first goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match between Portugal and Switzerland at Lusail Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>On an incredible night, Goncalo Ramos \u2013 21-years-old, without an international goal, and preferred to Cristiano Ronaldo \u2013 scored a sensational hat-trick, as Portugal devastated Switzerland. <\/p>\n<p>The Selecao now meet Morocco in the last eight and look as likely champions as anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The opening was scrappy, but then, on 18 minutes and out of nothing, Ramos lashed in a sensational opener from an acute angle \u2013 his first goal for his country.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>After that there was only one winner, Portugal imposing their class on Switzerland and creating various chances and situations before and after increasing their lead thanks to Bruno Fernandes\u2019 corner and Pepe\u2019s header.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal maintained momentum after the break, scoring two brilliant goals between the 51st and 55th minutes, Ramos and Raphael Guerreiro scoring them. Switzerland did get one back shortly afterwards, through Manuel Akanji, but then on 67 minutes, Ramos applied a third lovely finish to complete one of the wildest World Cup daydreams.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Leao then added a superb sixth after coming on as a late substitute, giving one of the best knockout performances of recent times the finale it deserved.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"WvP-XGSvGgA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvP-XGSvGgA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goncalo Ramos of Portugal celebrates after scoring the team&#8217;s first goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match between Portugal and Switzerland at Lusail Stadium Image credit: Getty Images On an incredible night, Goncalo Ramos \u2013 21-years-old, without an international goal, and preferred to Cristiano Ronaldo \u2013 scored a sensational hat-trick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[919,6993,9755,2929,6396],"class_list":["post-1262318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hattrick","tag-portugal","tag-ramos","tag-scores","tag-thrash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}