{"id":435290,"date":"2022-12-08T21:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=435290"},"modified":"2022-12-09T01:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:05:20","slug":"soccer-portugal-young-gun-ramos-faces-tough-test-from-wily-saiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/soccer-portugal-young-gun-ramos-faces-tough-test-from-wily-saiss","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Portugal young gun Ramos faces tough test from wily Saiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA, Dec 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Portugal coach Fernando Santos put his faith in Goncalo Ramos when he started him against Switzerland, and the young striker responded by scoring a hat-trick and leading them to the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 2006. Ramos, 21, made headlines when the teams were announced, picked to lead the attack in place of Portugal&#8217;s all-time leading scorer Cristiano Ronaldo who was relegated to the bench. It did not take long for the youngster to become one of the biggest stories of the Qatar World Cup. Ramos made his debut in Portugal&#8217;s 4-0 win over Nigeria in a warm-up game before the World Cup and played a total of 10 minutes as a substitute in two of the three group matches. He opened the scoring against Switzerland with a stunning strike at the near post after 17 minutes and added a second in the 51st when he put the ball through keeper Yann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA, Dec 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Portugal coach Fernando Santos put his faith in Goncalo Ramos when he started him against Switzerland, and the young striker responded by scoring a hat-trick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-league","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}