Portugal 5-0 Austria
The Seleção continued their impressive campaign at the U17 European Championships in Azerbaijan by thrashing Austria 5-0 in the quarter-finals to book their place in the last four.
Highly rated 17-year-old striker José Gomes was the star of the show, scoring a hat-trick to take his tally in the tournament to 6 goals.
Hélio Sousa’s team will now play Sweden or Netherlands on Wednesday for a place in the final.
Portugal were far too good for Austria, dominating proceedings from start to finish. Gomes opened the scoring from the penalty spot, then doubled the lead with a header from an excellent Mesaque Dju cross to put the Seleção in complete control before 20 minutes had been played.
Benfica striker Gomes completed his hat-trick with another header shortly after the interval, glancing in Rúben Vinagre’s free kick.
Mesaque Dju and Miguel Luís added further goals. Yet to concede a single goal and having scored 12 times in their four matches in the tournament so far, Portugal will be confident of making it to the final one week today.
Portugal: Diogo Costa, Diogo Dalot, Diogo Queirós, Diogo Leite (Luís Silva, 67m), Rúben Vinagre, Florentino, Gedson Fernandes, Domingos Quina (Miguel Luís, 47m), João Filipe (Rafael Leão, 59m), Mesaque Dju, José Gomes
Goals:
[1-0] José Gomes (pen), 7’
[2-0] José Gomes, 18’
[3-0] José Gomes, 47’
[4-0] Dju, 51’
[5-0] Miguel Luís, 77’
