{"id":530779,"date":"2026-07-03T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530779\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:27:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-var-rule-out-croatia-goal-as-portugal-set-up-last-16-tie-with-spain-switzerland-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530779\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: VAR rule out Croatia goal as Portugal set up last-16 tie with Spain, Switzerland progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronaldo ‘delivered, was substituted and it worked out’published at 08:52 BST<\/p>\n

08:52 BST<\/p>\n

Portugal 2-1 Croatia<\/p>\n

\"\"BBC 5 Live Breakfast<\/p>\n

Duarte Carreira, a Portuguese journalist speaks to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast: “I would say that the first 10 minutes were really good. Portugal had that Bruno Fernandes opportunity. I think it was the only shot during the first half for Portugal that was kind of meaningful. <\/p>\n

“As to the first quarter-end, it was not that great, but the second half, for sure, delivered one of the one-time greats for us Portuguese, and it was good, although contentious a bit.<\/p>\n

“I think that the best thing about the whole conversation about Ronaldo and that he shouldn’t be playing that big of a role within the Portuguese team kind of plays in his favour went on the pitch for these moments.<\/p>\n

“Jokingly, people call him “Penaldo” for a reason when they want to detract him because he scores penalties. He is really good at that.<\/p>\n

“To be honest, I’m a Ronaldo critic at times, especially over the last few years, but yesterday it was pivotal because he delivered and he was substituted and it worked out. It worked out really, really well.”<\/p>\n

“I saw the visuals of the seismographs within the football and thought this could be big. It changes the spirit of the game a bit. Of course, I’m a huge NFL fan and I know a thing or two about technology and the rules etc. within the game but we’re not used to see this in football, right?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronaldo ‘delivered, was substituted and it worked out’published at 08:52 BST 08:52 BST Portugal 2-1 Croatia BBC 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-530779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}