Portugal beat Austria to lift the Under-17 World Cup 🏆 | OneFootball

The Portugal team celebrated the Under-17 World Cup title this Thursday. On this day, the Portuguese team secured the victory with a 1-0 win over Austria at the Khalifa International Stadium in Qatar. The title-winning goal was scored by Anísio Cabral, his seventh goal in the tournament.

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How the game went

With a lot of offensive movement, Portugal was superior in the first half, especially on the right side of the attack. In the early chances, Anísio Cabral, Mide, and Duarte Cunha created good opportunities, while Daniel Banjaqui also posed a threat with an individual play. Austria responded with dangerous counterattacks from Johannes Moser and Hasan Deshishku, but they were stopped by good interventions from the defense and goalkeeper Romário Cunha.

The title goal came at 32 minutes of the first half, in another well-worked play on the right. Duarte found Mide at the edge of the area, the number 10 returned the ball at the right time, and the winger crossed precisely for Anísio Cabral, unmarked, to finish into the net. In the second half, Austria returned more aggressively, forcing Romário Cunha to make good saves from Deshishku's free-kick and medium-range shots, while Portugal threatened again with a header from Mide and a shot from José Neto.

In the final minutes, coach Bino Maçães made substitutions to refresh the team, but Portugal had a big scare when Daniel Frauscher hit the post with a shot from the edge of the area at 40 minutes of the second half. After that, the Portuguese team managed to control the game until the final whistle and confirmed an unprecedented title in the category, the third in the country's history in FIFA World Cups, adding to the Under-20 World Cups won in 1989 and 1991.

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