Ronaldo played his sixth Euro Cup, set Portugal's record win

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Tezzbuzz|20-06-2024

Moreover, the interesting thing is that Cristiano Ronaldo, who joined the Portugal team in 2004, had to face the same Czech Republic team in his first Euro Cup championship match on his home soil.

Now 20 years later, Ronaldo is facing the same team in his sixth Euro Cup match.

Although he showed his lightning speed here and there in the game, he could not score a goal. But, the two attempts made his fans hold their hands close to their hearts. Especially in yesterday's game, Ronaldo was at the center of all the attacking moves of Portugal. Especially in the first half, Bruno Fernandes passed the ball beautifully and Czech Republic goalkeeper Jindrich Stanek blocked Ronaldo's shot towards the goal.

At the end of the first half, Stanek also blocked another shot by Ronaldo towards the goal. Even after the second half started, Ronaldo blocked a brilliant free kick towards the goal. So even at the age of 39, Ronaldo left his mark. Unfortunately, he could not score.

The first goal of the day was scored by Czech Republic's Lukach Provot who gave the visitors the lead in the 62nd minute of the game.

It was an incredible goal as Lukaku hit a powerful shot from long distance which Portugal's goalkeeper could do nothing about. It was a wonderful goal. However, in the 69th minute Portugal made an aggressive move to move the ball towards the Czech Republic's goal and the ball came close. It was an own goal when the Portugal player's header was blocked by the goalkeeper and it bounced off his hand and hit the Czech Republic's Robin Hronek's leg. The match was tied at 1-1.

But, in the 92nd minute, i.e. in stoppage time, 21-year-old Portuguese player Francisco Conceico scored a brilliant goal to bring Portugal back and give them the win.

Ronaldo's achievement Let's remember some information about this game. Cristiano Ronaldo is still the highest goal scorer in Euro Cup matches. He has scored 14 goals so far. In this, he has scored 5 goals in the 2020 Euro Cup series.

However, Pepe, who is 2 years older than 39-year-old Ronaldo, played for the Portugal team yesterday. Ronaldo's performance at this age was outstanding among the young players of the Portugal team, which included Joao Felix, Gonzalo Ramos and Rafael Leao.

In other matches of Group F, Portugal will face Georgia and Turkey.

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