{"id":411591,"date":"2025-09-09T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411591\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:51:14","slug":"portugal-u21s-beat-scotland-2-0-in-motherwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411591\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal U21s beat Scotland 2-0 in Motherwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mora-Quenda-Roger-U21s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"265\" class=\"pull-right\" loading=\"lazy\" data-path=\"local-images:\/Selecao-Youth-Levels\/Mora-Quenda-Roger-U21s.jpg\"\/>It almost went unnoticed given the senior Sele\u00e7\u00e3o were playing at the same time, but Portugal U21s beat Scotland 2-0 away this evening to continue their perfect start to Euro 2027 qualification.<\/p>\n<p>It was the usual suspects doing the business at the Fir Park Stadium, in Motherwell, with Geovany Quenda swinging over a delightful cross for Rodrigo Mora to head in midway through the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal doubled their lead in the 55th minute. Quenda and Mora were involved again, the latter providing the assist for Roger Fernandes to fire into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Not even the sending off of Portugal captain Mateus Fernandes in the 72nd minute put the result in doubt as the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o made it two wins out of two, 7 goals scored and none conceded to go top of the group.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal:\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Carvalho, Diogo Travassos (Jos\u00e9 Sampaio, 90\u2019+1), Tiago Gabriel, Gon\u00e7alo Oliveira, Tiago Parente, Diego Rodrigues (Gustavo S\u00e1, 64\u2019), Mateus Fernandes &#8211; Cap.,\u00a0Geovany Quenda, Roger Fernandes (Carlos Forbs, 90+1\u2019),\u00a0Rodrigo Mora (Mathias de Amorim, 74\u2019),\u00a0Gustavo Varela (Vivaldo Semedo, 74\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goals:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[0-1] Rodrigo Mora, 20\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[0-2] Roger Fernandes, 55\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It almost went unnoticed given the senior Sele\u00e7\u00e3o were playing at the same time, but Portugal U21s beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-411591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115176792718623783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}