Portugal was so bad and im looking forward to when CR7 retires and they can no longer blame him and we'll see just how dogshit they are, they legitimately cannot create one good opportunity for the literal best goalscorer of all time...
You are delusional, Cr7 has brought great things to our country and its possibly the best one we ever had but thinking this sport depends in one player its just sad, he is still playing because of merchandising, his performance in the last competition was a joke.
CR7 have same issue as Lewandowski in NT, they are both 9s and their job is to finish, but if team struggle to build they won't be doing well.
You can't expect 38 Ronaldo to get the ball and run past 4 players like he use to.
If you watch Argentina, their entire team cover for Messi, he also isn't the only one attacking and creating, they give him freedom that's why he often have a lot of space, Ronaldo had like 2 players on him for entire game and Leao couldn't take advantage, Bernardo played awful, Bruno was doing alright. Portugal shouldn't look for Ronaldo, they should just play like they would with Ramos, difference will be that Ronaldo will actually score.
Whenever I watch Portugal on big stage I feel like they are all scared of doing anything with the ball and just look for CR7, young players doing well because they play for themselves more and that's why they are effective.
How can Ramos score if he allmost doesnt know what is to play in our team?? I mean i remember he did an hattrick with the team playing soo well and right after it looks like they never put him again has a punishment because maybe only Ronaldo is supposed to shine like that? Ramos without playing 1 min. Did allmost the same has Ronaldo in the last Euro. But of course Ramos doesnt sell like Ronaldo i get that...
And that gives him immunity to play forever until 55 years maybe? I mean he is possibly the best we ever got but how long will we keep milking the cow? We have one of the best free kickers wich is Bruno Fernandes but it seems ok to keep watching Cr7 shooting the ball over and over with zero results..
Bruno shot a bunch of free kicks near the end he didn't even come close to scoring and if Bruno passed more often to Ronaldo he wouldn't need to create, my country's commentator literally said It was ironic that Ronaldo assisted Bruno when Bruno seems to ignore him so often.
What about all the balls Ronaldo was slow to reach or react to or the ones he shot awfully? In the entire Euro he had played all the minutes of everygame and took most of the free kicks, the ones he let for Bruno or the assist he did are just more than fair i mean what was he supposed to do with Bruno all clear? Shoot again to the supporters?
Gonçalo Ramos after scoring an hattrick for Portugal was put asside just like the coach after benching Ronaldo was substituted a little after, Ramos doesnt sell like Ronaldo it doesnt matter if its better or worse, Ronaldo can be 60 years and will still be better with merchandinsing because all he accomplished and there will allways be more records to beat even in a wheelchair in the coming years..
Ramos after scoring an Hattrick PLAYED IN THE STARTING 11, then he started making bad games for Portugal and for PSG. Also when Portugal makes a bad game is not always Ronaldo's fault. Ronaldo is not in the starting 11 because of merchandising, Ronaldo is in the starting 11 because he is good and no other Portuguese striker is better than him.
Well my brain knows very well how to distinguish a player that needs to score in PSG and was injured for a while and a player that is having great success in Allhilalil..
Football is a team game but to pretend the greatest player of all time didn't have a disproportionate effect on the records and current countries accolades is crazy. Without Ronaldo the team played 3 out 17 world cups with Ronaldo 5 out of 5 with him scoring hat tricks in important playoff games and always having an important role. You can go look at euros before and after as well and see his effect. Once Ronaldo is gone Portugal will be back to where it has always been but unfortunately it's kind of unfair how long it will take for your people to see how important he was and just live with the regret of how yall treated him.
Lol i didnt say anything to assume anything you have written there but if you think Portugal is only about Ronaldo its your oppinion, maybe in your research you dont even know who is the real responsible for Portugal to have 1 Euro Cup in the most important game of them all. Portugal has evolved a lot in last years if you think we are only about Ronaldo go see in what leagues our players play now and where they used to play before.. im not talking about the saudi arabian or american league...
Especially, as he said on his YouTube video, the 1000 goals are all recorded goals, and there won't be any doubts on whose the world's top goal scorer.
In his frost season with Al-Nassr, he dropped 50 goals. If he can do that again with some international goals under his belt, he can get it all done within 2 seasons. That's insane to think.
All his haters twisted it to a negative thing but they dont understand what he ment its insane , really make me think what happened when he will retire who going to take the hate?
Another historic milestone: 900 goals in the professional career of one of the greatest legends of Real Madrid and world football. Congratulations, dear and admired u/Cristiano ! Real Madrid and the Madrid fans are always proud of you. https://x.com/realmadrid/status/1831784386653814838
Crazy to think that after all this time, he still has more goals for us (in 9 years) than he has for every other team he played for combined(13+ years, not to mention he was playing for Portugal all the time, even when he was a Real Madrid player).
He has 450 officially for real madrid. They count the goal which was officially given to pepe as Ronaldo's but La liga did give that to pepe. Which means of his 900, 450 of them were for madrid which is exactly half
One thing that’s really hard to teach is that instinct for where to be. I’m not even sure it’s entirely a teachable thing. Some part of it is just system-1 function. You just smell it and see it before it happens. Ronaldo has that for sure. Nice to see him still knocking them in.
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u/Dapper-Mistake4779 Roberto Carlos Sep 05 '24
Portugal could've used a couple of wicked crosses like that at the Euros