{"id":10535,"date":"2021-07-07T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=121551"},"modified":"2021-07-07T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:51:20","slug":"spanish-striker-alvaro-morata-overtakes-torres-and-joins-ronaldo-in-making-history-at-euro-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/spanish-striker-alvaro-morata-overtakes-torres-and-joins-ronaldo-in-making-history-at-euro-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Striker Alvaro Morata overtakes Torres and joins Ronaldo in making history at Euro 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spain striker\u2019s incredible goal in the Euro 2020 semi-final at Wembley kept his team\u2019s dreams alive. Alvaro Morata made history as he scored a thrilling late equaliser against Italy, surpassing Fernando Torres and tying Cristiano Ronaldo for the most Euros goals.<\/p>\n<p>Morata scored in the 80th minute of Tuesday\u2019s Euro 2020 semi-final against Italy, with the Azzurri leading 1-0 thanks to Federico Chiesa\u2019s strike. Morata, though, concluded a magnificent move with a brilliant finish after receiving a pass from Dani Olmo, making history while also dragging the game to extra time.<\/p>\n<p>His goal not only kept Spain\u2019s Euro ambitions alive in the match, but it also saw the oft-criticized Morata move past Fernando Torres. Morata scored his sixth goal at the Euros surpassing Torres, who had previously been Spain\u2019s highest scorer at the competition with five goals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">6 \u2013 Alvaro Morata (6 goals) has scored more goals at the European Championships than any other Spain player, overtaking Fernando Torres' five goals. Answer. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ITA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ITA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ESP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ESP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5nhgllTGBS\">https:\/\/t.co\/5nhgllTGBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaJoe\/status\/1412512316889964550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alvaro Morata also joined Cristiano Ronaldo as the second player in history to score three or more goals in three different Euros competitions. Morata also became the first Spanish player to score for both club and country at Wembley Stadium, despite not starting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Morata\u2019s night didn\u2019t end well, though, as he missed a crucial penalty attempt in a shootout that allowed Italy to advance to the final on penalties.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Throughout the tournament, Morata has been the target of a barrage of criticism, much of it has been directed at him inappropriately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the group stage, the striker said he and his family received death threats, and he couldn\u2019t sleep after witnessing people declare they wanted his children to die because of his performances for Spain.<br \/>\nHowever, Morata\u2019s goal on Tuesday was his third of the tournament, following goals against Poland and Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spain striker\u2019s incredible goal in the Euro 2020 semi-final at Wembley kept his team\u2019s dreams alive. Alvaro Morata made\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":33012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1881,321,1722,773,389,1768],"class_list":["post-10535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-alvaro-morata","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-euro-2020","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-wembley"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}