{"id":15318,"date":"2018-03-24T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=15318"},"modified":"2018-03-24T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T17:23:15","slug":"ronaldo-2-1-salah-as-portugal-fight-back-to-beat-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2018\/03\/24\/ronaldo-2-1-salah-as-portugal-fight-back-to-beat-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo 2-1 Salah as Portugal fight back to beat Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo won the battle between two of Europe\u2019s in-form strikers as Portugal defeated Mohamed Salah\u2019s Egypt 2-1 in Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>The European champions trailed until the 90th minute before Ronaldo scored twice to steal victory.<\/p>\n<p>Salah opened the scoring after the interval with a sweet left-footed drive from outside the area.<\/p>\n<p>But Ronaldo made it 43 goals in 40 appearances this term as Portugal lay down a marker before the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After a tame first half, Liverpool forward Salah backed up his impressive four-goal performance against Watford on Saturday with a smart finish to give Egypt the lead.<\/p>\n<p>With the clock ticking down and with victory for Egypt in sight, Portugal\u2019s captain equalised and sealed the win with two powerful headers in the dying moments.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Portugal is the Netherlands \u2013 who fell to defeat against England on Friday evening \u2013 while Egypt face Greece.<\/p>\n<p>(BBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo won the battle between two of Europe&rsquo;s in-form strikers as Portugal defeated Mohamed Salah&rsquo;s Egypt 2-1 in Zurich. The European champions trailed until the 90th minute before Ronaldo scored twice to steal victory. Salah opened the scoring after the interval with a sweet left-footed drive from outside the area. But Ronaldo made it 43 goals in 40 appearances this term as Portugal lay down a marker before the World Cup. After a tame first half, Liverpool forward Salah backed up his impressive four-goal performance against Watford on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15320,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318\/revisions\/15320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}