{"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\/2017\/10\/euro-world-cup-qualifying-round-up-wins-for-iceland-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro World Cup qualifying round-up: Wins for Iceland and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
Iceland are on the brink of qualifying for their first World Cup following victory in Turkey on Friday.<\/p>\n
Burnley’s Johann Gudmundsson opened the scoring in the first half, latching onto a cross at the far post.<\/p>\n
Further goals from Aston Villa’s Birkir Bjarnason and Kari Arnason ended\u00a0Turkey<\/b>‘s hopes and secured a 3-0 win.<\/p>\n
Iceland, who lead Group I with 19 points – two ahead of Croatia and Ukraine – play sixth-placed Kosovo in their last game on Monday.<\/p>\n
Victory for Iceland would secure qualification but they are guaranteed a top-two finish in their group after\u00a0Croatia<\/b>\u00a0drew 1-1 with\u00a0Finland,<\/b>\u00a0also on Friday.<\/p>\n
Ukraine<\/b>‘s Andriy Yarmolenko made sure of a 2-0 victory over\u00a0Kosovo<\/b>\u00a0– who have only taken one point from nine games in their debut World Cup qualification campaign – after Leart Paqarada opened the scoring with an own goal in the second half.<\/p>\n
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
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Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iceland are on the brink of qualifying for their first World Cup following victory in Turkey on Friday. Burnley’s Johann Gudmundsson opened the scoring in the first half, latching onto a cross at the far post. Further goals from Aston Villa’s Birkir Bjarnason and Kari Arnason ended\u00a0Turkey‘s hopes and secured a 3-0 win. Iceland, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":359905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n