Portugal in the quarter-finals after 16 years: beat Switzerland 6-1

Gonzalo Ramos scored a hat-trick as Portugal beat Switzerland 6-1 in the pre-quarterfinals of the Football World Cup in Qatar. With this, Portugal's team reached the quarterfinals after 16 years. Earlier in 2006, Portugal had travelled to the semi-finals.
Ramos was included in the starting XI for the first time in place of Cristiano Ronaldo. In this match, Cristiano was fielded as a replacement. Ronaldo could not score a single goal in this match. A total of 6 goals were scored by Portugal. Ramos scored in the 17th, 51st and 67th minutes to score his first hat trick of the tournament. Apart from this, 39-year-old defender Pepe scored 33rd, Rafer Guerrero 55th and Rafael Liao scored in injury time (90+2nd minute). At the same time, Manuel Akanji scored the only goal for Switzerland in the 58th minute.
There were only 2 goals in the match till the first half. Both goals were scored by Portugal. At the same time, after halftime, 4 goals were scored within 16 minutes. Three of these goals were scored by Portugal, while one goal was scored by Switzerland. In the 51st minute of the match, Ramos scored a goal to put the team ahead 3-0. This was his second goal of the match. At the same time, four minutes later i.e. in the 55th minute, Rafael scored a goal to give Portugal a 4-0 lead. Just three minutes later, i.e. in the 58th minute, Manuel Ankaji scored a goal from Switzerland to reduce the lead to 4-1. Ramos scored his third goal in the 67th minute to increase the team's lead to 5–1.