Why should he lead them to a win? Portugal do not have the squads of France/Germany/Spain/Italy and probably Croatia too. Reaching TWO finals with Portugal is pretty good albeit probably not that remarkable. He hasn't been particularly great for Portugal (so far) but he hasn't been a disappointment either.
Cristiano Ronaldo - Performances (wums will be thread banned)
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Why should he lead them to a win? Portugal do not have the squads of France/Germany/Spain/Italy and probably Croatia too. Reaching TWO finals with Portugal is pretty good albeit probably not that remarkable. He hasn't been particularly great for Portugal (so far) but he hasn't been a disappointment either.
Once again with the statsA game and a half of good performances out of the what, 6 games played, is a good tournament? Jesus Christ.
You're literally saying outside of his goals/assists he's been shit. Which is wrong. He's worked hard for the team, he's led from the front and everyone I. Portugal has noticed it. Played a vital part in the winning goal against croatia, guess scoring goals and playing roles in match winners (you know it's only the most important aspect of a football game) means feck all to you.
Why not? The others have a better team on paper but Portugal's compensation is that they have Ronaldo, a top 2 player in the world who has proven far more than any other attacker in those teams. Wouldn't be that outlandish to criticise Ronaldo for not winning a final. I also criticise Messi for not winning at least 1 one of his 4 finals with Argentina.
What a load of rubbish. Worked hard for the team? So has the rest of the Portugal squad.(Not to add, while players like Pepe, Sanches and Nani have been good for the majority of the tournament whilst also working hard) Goals and assists isn't the be all and end all to a player, otherwise Nani would have been remembered by us as one of the best to ever play for United. He could be absolutely dire and still come up with assists/goals, Ronaldo this tournament bar one and a half games is in a similar situation.
He's been great this game and is the second best player in the world, the best in the world of the players available at the European cup, performances like that against Poland is why he hasn't had a "good tournament". He did his best to lose the game, was arguably their worst player.
He did not play a vital goal in the Croatia goal
It was all Sanches and Nani. Is missing a one on one with the keeper playing a vital role? If so, that's me damned. I understand you love him and all but Jesus wept it's like all common sense goes out the window when people like certain players.
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Notice that 5 of the 6 goals Ronaldo contributed to were absolutely decisive: 2 goals and an assist vs Hungary (Portugal would have been out without them), played important role in the goal vs Croatia and scored the all important first goal vs Wales. Not bad.
Yep, he has been decisive for them.
Air Ronaldo.
Target men like Dzeko, Llorente, Mandzukic etc get praised for their heading abilities but none of them is on par to Ronaldo when it comes to actual heading skills. Ronaldo has this incredible knack for making headers look like tap-ins at times.
Nani has been just as decisive and had a bigger influence on games for Portugal than Ronaldo.
well spotted
I'm proud that he was groomed at United. We transformed him from a winger to a goal scoring machine.
The criticism is way harsh on him this tournament. Yes he missed a few guaranteed goals but he has shown up in the most decisive games. Scoring and assisting. People say he's selfish but he clearly has been a leader as well for the penalty shootout with Croatia. First pen, encouraging his teammates shaking off that nervous energy they had.
Showed up once again tonight with all the pressure on him and the Bale show.
Showed up once again tonight with all the pressure on him and the Bale show.
Just like to thank Ronnie for tonight's performance and outstanding result(s) of an assist, goal, clean sheet and full 90. Even with your yellow card, you are my captain for EURO 2016 Fantasy semi-final match week.
And if anything, we all learned (some more than others) that results mean more than performances. Ronaldo has been vital to Portugal's recent goals and results, regardless if their performances have left some people wanting more. His country is in the Euro 2016 Finals and he's played a central figure. Go figure.
And if anything, we all learned (some more than others) that results mean more than performances. Ronaldo has been vital to Portugal's recent goals and results, regardless if their performances have left some people wanting more. His country is in the Euro 2016 Finals and he's played a central figure. Go figure.
Ridiculous that we bother criticizing players like him and Messi at this point. Any mess ups or drops in form are just anomalies or blips in performance.
The worst are people that say dumb things like "take away his goals now and he's nothing". Not surprising at all if you take away an attacker's end product he won't look like much. It's also not as if he's only scoring 25 goals every season. He's consistently netting 50+ goals. Nitpicking greatness instead of appreciating it must be one of the dumbest activities one could waste their time with.
The worst are people that say dumb things like "take away his goals now and he's nothing". Not surprising at all if you take away an attacker's end product he won't look like much. It's also not as if he's only scoring 25 goals every season. He's consistently netting 50+ goals. Nitpicking greatness instead of appreciating it must be one of the dumbest activities one could waste their time with.
Pervert.
What's also dumb is overrating a certain player's influence based on reputation and appreciation for that player. People say he's been decisive when it's mattered, is a quarter-final game not a game that mattered? You know, the game where Sanches and Nani did everything they could to try and win while Ronaldo did his best to ruin just about every chance that was put on a plate for him?
I don't have an attachment to Ronaldo so maybe I can just see it from a different light but he hasn't had a good tournament. A good tournament is what Nani, Sanches and Pepe have had. Consistently an outlet. A few decisive moments isn't a good tournament, otherwise once again, Nani would be considered one of the best United players to ever play as he was king of shit performances and decisive moments. He's had a below average tournament (especially for his standards) which included one and a half good performances. Using the his influence is putting defenders off excuse is still unacceptable imo, using that logic Lewandowski has been one of the best players at the tournament as he's done it all tournament.
Way I see it is he's been outshone by an 18 year old and a winger turned striker who everyone use to mock for trying so hard to be the "next Ronaldo."
He'll be world player of the year if they win this tournament - and deservedly so IMO.
One question. If he doesn't win it will we hear he should have done more on international level to be regarded as a best ever?
Like with one other player.
Like with one other player.
Winning the CL + the Euros beats winning the league + Copa, I think that's reasonably fair indeed.
Que huge masterbation from his fanboys lol
Who won the league and Copa?
Messi. Copa del Rey by the way.
nope. They have probably been about equal whilst ronaldo has been essential in 2 of their most important games.
Nice Ince inspired nickname there.
del Rey.
Take away his goals? Really?
If you take away De Gea's saves for the last 3 years , he'd be the shittest keeper ever!
Fergie must be proud seeing 2 youth players he brought through shining in a Euro semi final.
What a load of rubbish. Worked hard for the team? So has the rest of the Portugal squad.(Not to add, while players like Pepe, Sanches and Nani have been good for the majority of the tournament whilst also working hard) Goals and assists isn't the be all and end all to a player, otherwise Nani would have been remembered by us as one of the best to ever play for United. He could be absolutely dire and still come up with assists/goals, Ronaldo this tournament bar one and a half games is in a similar situation.
He's been great this game and is the second best player in the world, the best in the world of the players available at the European cup, performances like that against Poland is why he hasn't had a "good tournament". He did his best to lose the game, was arguably their worst player.
He did not play a vital goal in the Croatia goal
He's the one that started off the counter attack, played more of a role than anyone else. Quite clear you've got blinkers on here, so I'm done.
Lets walk through the goal. Sanches dribbles from half way dragging out several defenders and gives the ball to Nani. Nani plays an unbelievable ball across goal to an unmarked Ronaldo who misses the shot. Goalkeeper reflects shot back into path of Quaresma who scores.
Ronaldo had the most influence? Who has the blinkers on here.
Quaresma stole the ball from Strinić, Ronaldo was close so he passed to Sanches, Sanches gives to Nani, Nani tries to shot but ball comes to Ronaldo, Subašić saves his shot and Quaresma is there to tap in the ball. It was a team effort.
Lets walk through the goal. Sanches dribbles from half way dragging out several defenders and gives the ball to Nani. Nani plays an unbelievable ball across goal to an unmarked Ronaldo who misses the shot. Goalkeeper reflects shot back into path of Quaresma who scores.
Ronaldo had the most influence? Who has the blinkers on here.
Yeah sure, miss out the part were Ronaldo starts off the counter by releasing the ball quickly to Sanches.
Yeah sure, miss out the part were Ronaldo starts off the counter by releasing the ball quickly to Sanches.
Reclaiming possession, a pass and a missed one on one opportunity is more vital than the immense ball by Nani and the dribble by Sanches which dragged defenders out of position. Okay pal.
What's dumb is this entire post.
What's dumb about it? What's dumb is your post that has offered nothing to this discussion at all. Should I also be oblivious to facts and judge player's based on statistics alone, just because ya know, he's Ronnie
Wow he's been immense all tournament.I was very clear that the entirety of it was. There's nothing worth adding to a discussion as illogical as the one you seem to want to have.
Way I see it is you have nothing worthwhile to add, hence your back-tracking.
There's no backtracking. I said your post was dumb. Deal with it.
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