It’s flawless. This Friday evening, during the 7th of Group J of qualifying for Euro 2024, Portugal scored a seventh victory in a row, against Slovakia (3-2), in Porto, in pouring rain. This new success, which allows the Seleção to secure its ticket for the Euro which will be played in Germany in the summer of 2024, owes a lot to Cristiano Ronaldo and Gonçalo Ramos, who started together for the first time.
The two players, lined up side by side at the forefront of a 4-4-2, did not necessarily combine well together, like this cross from Joao Cancelo that the PSG striker wanted to take again. the head, before being pushed by CR7, who was attempting an acrobatic flip (45+2nd). But it was they who scored the goals for their team. Ramos thus opened the scoring with a header, taking a splendid cross from Bruno Fernandes, previously author of a beautiful body feint to eliminate Ondrej Duda (1-0, 18th).
A sixth Euro scheduled for CR7
Then Ronaldo scored twice, first from a penalty (2-0, 29th), after a handball from Denis Vavro in his area, then by taking an offering from the untenable Bruno Fernandes (3-1, 72nd), who delivered his 7th assist in these qualifiers for the occasion. But when we talk about statistics, CR7 is unbeatable: on the occasion of his 202nd selection, he scored his… 124th and 125th goals with Portugal. This is obviously a record that appears unbeatable in the medium term. Likewise, Ronaldo should, barring injury, participate in his sixth Euro next summer, and it is not very clear who could do better in the years to come.
Note that, during this meeting, the Seleção conceded its first two goals in these qualifiers, on two long shots, signed David Hancko (2-1, 69th), who took advantage of a deflection from Antonio Silva, then Stanislav Lobotka, with a clear attempt (3-2, 80th). Despite these two achievements, the Slovaks never really gave the impression of being able to come back in this meeting. Despite everything, they retain second place in this group J, with two points ahead of Luxembourg, who by obtaining a draw (1-1) in Iceland at the same time, maintain a serious hope of qualification.
2023-10-13 20:46:36
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