{"id":115884,"date":"2026-03-27T02:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/2026-world-cup-qualifiers-italy-advances-czech-republic-and-bosnia-to-penalties\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:20:47","slug":"2026-world-cup-qualifiers-italy-advances-czech-republic-and-bosnia-to-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/2026-world-cup-qualifiers-italy-advances-czech-republic-and-bosnia-to-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 World Cup Qualifiers: Italy advances, Czech Republic and Bosnia to penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The last spots for the 2026 World Cup have been defined<\/h2>\n\nThis month, the last spots for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be defined. In Europe, several key matches will determine which teams advance on their way to the tournament to be held in North America.\n\n\n<p>These were the results of the UEFA matches played on Thursday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Turkey defeated Romania 1-0 in the first match.<\/li>\n<li>Denmark secured a convincing 4-0 victory over North Macedonia.<\/li>\n<li>Italy impressed in the second half with a 2-0 win over Northern Ireland.<\/li>\n<li>Poland reacted well in the second half to beat Albania 2-1.<\/li>\n<li>An exciting encounter between Slovakia and Kosovo saw the visitors win 4-3, keeping Kosovo&#8217;s hope of qualifying for their first World Cup alive.<\/li>\n<li>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres scored a hat-trick for Sweden, who won 3-1 against Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nFurthermore, two matches were decided in extra time and penalties: Czech Republic defeated the Republic of Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina defeated Wales, advancing to their respective finals which will be played on Tuesday.\n\nEnjoy all the live match updates!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last spots for the 2026 World Cup have been defined This month, the last spots for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be defined. In Europe, several key matches will determine which teams advance on their way to the tournament to be held in North America. These were the results of the UEFA matches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8312,1298,1030,1557],"class_list":{"0":"post-115884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-classification","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-fifa-world-cup","11":"tag-matches"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}