{"id":947195,"date":"2026-03-26T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/?p=947195"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:21:38","slug":"azuri-u-nastavku-slomili-irce-makedonci-pali-u-kopenhagenu-poljska-okrenula-albaniju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/sport\/azuri-u-nastavku-slomili-irce-makedonci-pali-u-kopenhagenu-poljska-okrenula-albaniju\/","title":{"rendered":"The \"Azure\" continue to 'crush' the Irish, Poland \"turns\" Albania around, Kosovo's historic success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gennaro Gattuso's team achieved an important victory against Northern Ireland (2:0) in Bergamo tonight in the semi-finals of the World Cup play-offs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Azzurri struggled in the first half, unable to find a way to the net, and then Sandro Tonali gave his team the lead with a powerful and precise volley from the edge of the penalty area in the 56th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"&quot;BOMB&quot; TONALIA FOR LEADERSHIP | Italy - Northern Ireland | 26.03.2026.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4_gRZubGsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fiorentina striker Moise Kean ensured a calmer finish to the match, as he did everything beautifully in the 80th minute on Tonali's cross and made it 2:0 off the post, putting an end to this duel in which the Italians had no right to make a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"MOSES KEANE SOLVES EVERYTHING | Italy - Northern Ireland | 26.03.2026.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WrGtat1RAOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will not have the right to make a mistake on Tuesday either, when they face Wales or Bosnia and Herzegovina in a decisive match to qualify for the planetary championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another country from the former Yugoslavia \u2013 North Macedonia \u2013 has said goodbye to the dream of the World Cup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Macedonians fell in Copenhagen, where they lost convincingly to favored Denmark (4:0). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scandinavians only broke their rivals' resistance in the second half, when they scored all four goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mikel Damsgard opened the scoring for the visitors in the 49th minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then Adam Maru\u0161i\u0107's teammate from Lazio, Gustav Isaksen, scored two goals in a minute (58 and 59) and removed all doubts about advancing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The match was ended by Christian Norgaard, assisted by his namesake Eriksen, in the 73rd minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"MACEDONIANS SINK IN 10 MINUTES | Denmark - North Macedonia | 26.03.2026.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcRLW_0Uyls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden, led by the team's star player Viktor \u0110okere\u0161, defeated Ukraine in Valencia (3:1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Arsenal player scored a hat-trick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u0110okere\u0161 gave the nominal guests the lead in the sixth minute, and the same player doubled the lead in the 52nd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He completed his hat-trick with a penalty kick in the 72nd minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A consolation goal for Ukraine was scored by Matvi Ponomarenko in the first minute of stoppage time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden will play against Poland in the World Cup qualifier, which came from behind to defeat Albania (2:1) in Warsaw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albania took the lead at the end of the first half with a goal from Dinamo Zagreb forward Arber Hoxha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The home team captain, Robert Lewandowski, brought things back to an even level in the 63rd minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten minutes later, a complete turnaround was directed by Pjotr \u200b\u200bZielinski. Both times, the assistant was Sebastian Szymanski. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kosovo beat Slovakia in the final (4:3) in Bratislava, thus setting up a final with Turkey, which earlier today won by a narrow margin against Romania in Istanbul. The Kosovo-Turkey match will be played in Pristina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Slovaks led twice in the first half, but the guests turned it around to 4:2 through Aslani, Muslija and Hajziri, only for the home team's defeat to be mitigated by Strelec in the 94th minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-pg-tv wp-block-embed-pg-tv\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"M0yQ73BMWI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/sport\/turska-napravila-prvi-korak-ka-mundijalu-ceka-slovacku-ili-kosovo\/\">Turkey takes first step towards World Cup, awaits Slovakia or Kosovo<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&quot;Turkey takes first step towards World Cup, awaits Slovakia or Kosovo&quot; \u2014 PG TV\" src=\"https:\/\/gradski.me\/sport\/turska-napravila-prvi-korak-ka-mundijalu-ceka-slovacku-ili-kosovo\/embed\/#?secret=2Ev7gi5Elo#?secret=M0yQ73BMWI\" data-secret=\"M0yQ73BMWI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy has missed the previous two World Cups, but is well on its way to ending that negative streak this year.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":947212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29224,12888,4072,29229,9475,29231,29230,12729,9454,29232,12731],"naslovna":[],"class_list":["post-947195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-baraz-za-svjetsko-prvenstvo","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-bih","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-ceske","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-irske","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-italije","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-kosova","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-poljske","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-sjeverne-makedonije","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-svedske","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-ukrajine","tag-muska-fudbalska-reprezentacija-velsa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947195"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947267,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947195\/revisions\/947267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947195"},{"taxonomy":"naslovna","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naslovna?post=947195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}