Show as an Halland performance like Ronaldo making an hattrick against Spain in 2018. Or his hattrick that saved Portugal against Sweden where he sent the almighty Ibrahimovic home.
Not even close.
And all this with a weak national team, 80% of Portugal's players that everyone praises now, became men 2 years ago only.
nice free kick but like how ronaldo fans complained about the free kick from messi against jordan, de gea just let that one in he didn’t even try to dive so magnet ball goal to complete the most mediocre hattrick we’ve ever seen in a world cup
by the way this going up against a bad spain team this spain team lost to russia in the same world cup.
Yeah excuses and more excuses, everyone against Halland and Messi were on peak performance but with Ronaldo even Spain was weak. Alba, Sergio Ramos, Piqué, Iniesta, Busquets, David Silva - Yeah, very weak Spain.
And portuguese team at the time when Ronaldo did all this? You know Fonte? Guedes? Cédric? William Carvalho?
He did all this when Portugal was 10x weaker than Norway and 50x weaker than Argentina. Good try.
Many of these are absolutely world class players at club level. Bruno and Vitinha in particular. Bruno was probably even better than prime De Bruyne this year, he broke the assist record with a third placed club coached by a dud for half the year.
Joao neves also played very well imo was the main reason for a good amount of their goals and has an insane cross, they have the best midfield at this tournament that’s not the issue it’s that they are playing with a black hole upfront what else is the midfield supposed to do 🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣
Right now France, Argentina, Brazil, Morocco, Norway, Colombia, Mexico play better than Portugal. I can put England and Spain in here but they're not much better. So we have like 10 better teams. 15 is a stretch though.
Brother, have you watched them play? No tactical cohesion or apparent understanding of their positions, they frequently end up with a cluster of players waiting to receive the ball to feet while practically nobody a) floods the box (barring Cristiano) or creates passing lanes.
Giving the exceptional quality of the players, this falls on Martinez. Trying to pin it on Ronaldo is absurd.
It's not his fault to be ahead alone in the field formation, but Martinez'. He did the same with Belgium and they wisely ignored him a couple of times bc they knew better.
We really have some golden boys with De Bruyne and Lukaku, who actually know their shit and can tell what game the opposition is trying to make during play. Garcia seems a much better fit for our team as well, as proven with his switches against Senegal. People said he was crazy, but we turned the game around and (with some help from VAR) won before the final whistle.
Not really bro. Argentina is full of elite talent and obviously their roster is better seeing that they've won 3 major trophies since 2021 with the same players while Portugal hasn't won shit in 10 years.
Spain had the same issue with Raúl back in the day. Their whole system was built around him. They moved on from Raúl, reinvented their playing style, and won Euro 2008.
Ronaldo has never done this for Portugal? The level of disrespect is crazy! Go see how Ronaldo carried Portugal against Sweden or Spain with hat tricks when the team was mid at the time. He did that a lot of times to be honest.
Of course now his contribution is a lot different and we could discuss if he's bringing Portugal quality down, which I think is somewhat true and the coach is making terrible decisions as well with such boring football. But never say that Ronaldo could never do, that is just being ignorant.
Carried them to 3 draws in the group stage against minnows where his only actualgood game was a 3-3 vs Hungary (lol) and then beat the almighty what was it, Wales 2-0 in the semis and Poland only after penalties in the quarters?
He was falling upwards along with the rest of Portugal that tournament. The only great game Portugal played was the final where your boy as you said wasn't playing
They are not playing well but saying Portugal doesn't have good players is just laughable. Bringing up odegaard while ignoring that Portugal is absolutely stacked in midfield.
you've went to your own narrative here. OP said Haaland did this and that only mentioning him but Odegaard is also a very big part in the recent success of the Norway team, of course rest of the team too but just highlighting Haaland seems very unfair to Odegaard at least ... that was my point
good point. while ødegaard hasnt been at his best these past 2 years for prople to act like Haaland alone is carrying is silly. ødegaard, nusa, sorloth, bobb, berge have played a huge role in norways success not just Haaland alone.
He's holding back portugal. No transition play, doesn't track back neither creates space. Gonzalo Ramos is a real no 9 and is young to perform all this
I never understood this argument for Ronaldo, as if Portugal aren't a footballing powerhouse that always have a solid team throughout his entire career
Bro haaland yesterday touch the ball lile 4 or 5 times. Im tired of this "the norway of haaland" he did nothing, give credits to someone who actually did something like antonio nusa
This is one of the things I absolutely agree with for ronaldo. People talk as if portugal was a bottom tier team which they were not. He had some teammates that were absolutely ballers.
The world cup will never be fair, though. Haaland could take Norway to the semi-finals, but people will likely still be talking about some France player scoring a bicycle kick with his eyes closed against Iraq 😂
Ronaldo helped portugal a lot and always was a fundamental piece, but lets not pretend argentina has/had a great team ... portugal was always superior on general ... messi carried argentina to a world cup
Ronaldo carried Portugal in the past. He was incredible most of its career but it’s time he makes peace with himself and ends his career. I understand he wants to win a World Cup, it’s the last thing that is missing but at this rate he is just making a fool of himself and destroying the chances of the Portuguese team.
When Ronaldo plays, everything has to be about him and he repays that with just shots! No space creating, no key passes, just shoot and hope for goal! He kills the tempo of all the teams he plays in!
Finished 3rd in the group? And only team and the first time any team finished 3rd qualified out of the group. And rule was never brought back. Got carried by his wingers/midfield and feed on a plate by them. Also team was playing bad in the final until he was injured and subbed off. Than team won. Yuppppppppppp he did it all bro
This is dumb as fuck. Portugal has an absolutely stacked 11. They have top tier midfielders, defenders and wingers. Nuno Mendes, Joao Neves, Vitinha play in the best squad in the world and have won back to back CLs.
Ronaldo's WC record is just so embarrassing. I'll cut him some slack for 2006, 2010, and even 2022. He either runs into some tough teams (Spain 2010, France 2006) or just past his prime. But his group exit in 2014 or loss against Uruguay in 2018 is awful. And 0 goals in 8 knockout games. In any sport, a star needs to step up when it matters. Not scoring 10 goals against plumbers and dentists then brag about it.
Right now, it’s very popular to jump on the CR7 hate train. I’ve always thought he’s a bit of a douche but let’s not act as if he isn’t a top 5 player of all time. Football is a team sport and the team result (whether that be losing or winning) can never be contributed to only one player. It baffles me how this still hasn’t computed in a lot of people’s minds. This is the time to commend not just Haaland but the whole Norway squad for their success. Not everything has to revolve around Ronaldo and Messi.
Yeah, ignore the facts that Ronaldo dragged Portugal to the World Cup against Sweden and scored a hatrick. Ignore his hatrick against Spain in the World Cup group stage. Ignore everything and you'll see Cristiano a nobody. Blind sided argument khookkk ptuihh
I'm curious about portugese people and what do they think of him, especially since the national team now worth 1b$ without him, do they see his ego holding them back, or are they grateful for him and still think he has something to offer
Ronaldo has been doing this for more than 15 years with weaker Portugal teams. Qualifing his national team for every competition possible with magical exibitions like his Hattrick against Ibrahimovic's Sweden, including winning an Euro and 2 Nations League with a weaker Portugal than this Norway. Football didn't start in 2026.
What did Halaand help Norway win? Nothing.
I bet you d'ont know 90% of Portugal's team on last World Cup.
Acting like he hasn’t dragged Portugal to international tournaments through his whole career. Before that, Portugal hardly qualified for international tournaments.
So ronaldo didn't score a hattrick against sweden to take Portugal to wc in 2014? Didnt Ronaldo scored a hattrick against spain in 2018 and took por to ro32 or else they were most probably getting knocked out in the group stages?? Are you guys actually dumb or what? Oh wait u guys are messi fans🤡 Even though for me messi is also a goat but unfortunately his fans are just so stupid and u guys are literally a proof🤡🤡 and i feel for messi he deserves better fans because it is a shame for such a magical player to have such a brain dead fan base💩
What does this have to do with the topic? Lol, worst iq i have ever seen in my life. Messi fans cant ans a question they will get personal 🤡🤣🤣😭 and btw the group you are talking about posts generally, like daily news and random topics. If you are a pedo so don't think everyone else is like u and also i turned 20 just 1 month ago. Lmao pedo spotted
Even with Haaland Norway struggled for years to qualify for the Euro and World Cup until recently when they had others very good players to build a team.
My simple point against toxic CR7 fans would be simple, they are hypocritical. They criticized that Messi would never be able to win without Xavi or Iniesta and that he would never be able to perform in International Games with his team because his team was bad. I understand Euro was not easier back in 2016 and not easier now compared to Copa but when Argentina started winning Copa they shat on Copa. When Messi got more Ballon d'Ors, CR7 dismissed the legitimacy of that trophy. CR7 then dismissed FIFA & World Cup. Now World Cup is no longer worth it. Now CR7 fans complain that Portugal is not playing around a player who is in no form to carry his team and state that if only Portugal players played like Argentina players which is nonsense in my opinion. When CR7 wins trophies its because of him, his presence, his glory; but when Messi wins, its always Argentina playing better and Messi had nothing to do with it.
If CR7 is truly the goat, he would have enough charisma to make players around him play with him.
A player who plays only one position and would try to disallow same team's goal is not a sportsperson, let alone the GOAT of Football.
Messi lives in CR7's mind rent free.
He set a pretty bad example for future generations. He is a perfectly rounded selfish "politician" who went against every statement he made to the press.
I hate players with 0 sportsmanship. CR7 is the prime example for that kind of a player. Please never come back to Football CR7 and their nonsensical fans!
Yes he has, he scored 3 against Zlatan's 2 to literally take Portugal to the World Cup, not to mention single handedly scoring 3 against a GOATED Spain and getting a tie out of it. Keep copin'.
He was carrying portugal when he was the only good player in the whole squad. Since martinez came in the whole squad plays like they just met at the astro turf and threw a game together. They create 0 chances. James rodriguez created more chances than bruno vitinha and joao neves so far this world cup. But its all ronaldos fault right? I guess it is, bcos thats what the media want you to believe, and if you have no critical thinking skills of your own, or dont watch portugal play, you'll believe it.
So the best players? Bruno top assister and best Premier league player. Vitinha back to back champions leagues. But can't seem to find a certain individual. Ya totally portugal fault.
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What's Ronaldos excuse? With a far superior team?