{"id":359902,"date":"2017-10-07T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359902"},"modified":"2017-10-07T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:43:09","slug":"euro-world-cup-qualifying-round-up-wins-for-iceland-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359902","title":{"rendered":"Euro World Cup qualifying round-up: Wins for Iceland and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Iceland are on the brink of qualifying for their first World Cup following victory in Turkey on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley&#8217;s Johann Gudmundsson opened the scoring in the first half, latching onto a cross at the far post.<\/p>\n<p>Further goals from Aston Villa&#8217;s Birkir Bjarnason and Kari Arnason ended\u00a0<b>Turkey<\/b>&#8216;s hopes and secured a 3-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland, who lead Group I with 19 points &#8211; two ahead of Croatia and Ukraine &#8211; play sixth-placed Kosovo in their last game on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Victory for Iceland would secure qualification but they are guaranteed a top-two finish in their group after<b>\u00a0Croatia<\/b>\u00a0drew 1-1 with\u00a0<b>Finland,<\/b>\u00a0also on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ukraine<\/b>&#8216;s Andriy Yarmolenko made sure of a 2-0 victory over\u00a0<b>Kosovo<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; who have only taken one point from nine games in their debut World Cup qualification campaign &#8211; after Leart Paqarada opened the scoring with an own goal in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland, with a population of only 333,000,\u00a0knocked England out\u00a0in the last 16 of Euro 2016, prompting the resignation of England boss Roy Hodgson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland are on the brink of qualifying for their first World Cup following victory in Turkey on Friday. Burnley&#8217;s Johann Gudmundsson opened the scoring in the first half, latching onto a cross at the far post. Further goals from Aston Villa&#8217;s Birkir Bjarnason and Kari Arnason ended\u00a0Turkey&#8216;s hopes and secured a 3-0 win. Iceland, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":359905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}