{"id":8746,"date":"2023-11-15T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T11:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/15\/euro-2024-qualifiers-portugal-squad-depleted-for-games-against-liechtenstein-and-iceland\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T11:43:20","slug":"euro-2024-qualifiers-portugal-squad-depleted-for-games-against-liechtenstein-and-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/15\/euro-2024-qualifiers-portugal-squad-depleted-for-games-against-liechtenstein-and-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024 qualifiers: Portugal squad depleted for games against Liechtenstein and Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four players initially called up by coach Roberto Martinez will not be available for Portugal\u2019s European qualifying games against Liechtenstein on Thursday and Iceland three days later.<\/p>\n<p>Pepe, Rafael Leao and Nelson Semedo were out because of injuries, while Diogo Dalot was released because his wife is due to give birth.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez called up Raphael Guerreiro to replace Semedo, and Jo\u00e3o M\u00e1rio for Dalot. The Spanish tactician did not replace Le\u00e3o and Pepe.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/euro-2024-colourful-ball-reflects-energy-of-tournament-say-organisers\/article67535808.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euro 2024: Colourful ball to reflect energy of tournament, say organisers<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Portugal has won all of its eight qualifiers in Group J and has already secured a spot at the 2024 European Championship in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez\u2019s squad includes forwards Joao Felix and Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s team will not included Pepe, Rafael Leao, and Nelson Semedo because of injuries, while Diogo Dalot was released because his wife is due to give birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}