{"id":12744,"date":"2018-06-08T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=12744"},"modified":"2018-06-08T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:19:24","slug":"ronaldo-return-inspires-portugal-past-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=12744","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo return inspires Portugal past Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_divstory\" class=\"fullstorydivcommentin\">\n<div class=\"fullstorydivstory\">\n<p id=\"pstory\" class=\"fulstorytext\"><b>Lisbon, Jun 8 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> With talisman Cristiano Ronaldo back in the side, Portugal strolled to a 3-0 win over Algeria in a World Cup warm-up match in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>A brace from Paris Saint-Germain forward Goncalo Guedes, who spent last season on loan at Valencia, and another strike from Sporting Lisbon midfielder Bruno Fernandes secured a comfortable success yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>It was a welcome boost for the European champions, who hadn&#8217;t won since March and were held to draws by Tunisia (2-2) and Belgium (0-0) in their previous two friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>Having been given some extra time off following Real Madrid&#8217;s Champions League final victory over Liverpool, Ronaldo made his 150th international appearance for Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>And his very presence sparked a marked improvement in Portugal&#8217;s attacking thrust as he was involved in almost every dangerous move the hosts conjured until he was replaced on 74 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal begin their World Cup campaign in Sochi against Spain on June 15. Algeria did not qualify.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullstorydivcomment\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisbon, Jun 8 (DIN NEWS) With talisman Cristiano Ronaldo back in the side, Portugal strolled to a 3-0 win over Algeria in a World Cup warm-up match in Lisbon. A brace from Paris Saint-Germain forward Goncalo Guedes, who spent last season on loan at Valencia, and another strike from Sporting Lisbon midfielder Bruno Fernandes secured a comfortable success yesterday. It was a welcome boost for the European champions, who hadn&#8217;t won since March and were held to draws by Tunisia (2-2) and Belgium (0-0) in their previous two friendlies. Having&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12746,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744\/revisions\/12746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}