{"id":914473,"date":"2026-10-03T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914473\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:58:09","slug":"nations-league-robert-lewandowski-scores-hat-trick-and-edin-dzeko-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914473\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations League: Robert Lewandowski scores hat-trick and Edin Dzeko retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the same group there were emotional scenes as Edin Dzeko retired from international football following Bosnia-Herzegovina&#8217;s 1-1 draw at home to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ex-Manchester City forward, 40, found the net late in the first half but the goal was disallowed as the ball went out of play in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fireworks went off after 11 minutes to celebrate the number 11 on his 152nd international appearance, and he was given a standing ovation when he was substituted after 62 minutes in Zenica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The celebrations continued after the match with an official ceremony, a guard of honour and a drone show displaying messages of thanks to Dzeko, who was showered with soft toys from the crowd during a lap of honour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal striker Viktor Gyokeres put Sweden in front before Kerim Alajbegovic equalised for Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kevin de Bruyne scored twice as Belgium beat Turkey 3-0 to move up to second in Group A1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old Napoli midfielder scored a goal in each half before Romelu Lukaku completed the scoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool defender Milos Kerkez scored the only goal as Hungary beat Georgia in Budapest to claim their first Nations League win of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hungary are third in Group B2, three points behind leaders Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the same group there were emotional scenes as Edin Dzeko retired from international football following Bosnia-Herzegovina&#8217;s 1-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-914473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}