Absolutely embarrassingly selfish performance. He can't dribble and just shoots from absolutely anywhere even when teammates are in better positons. Must be such a frustrating teammate.
Cristiano Ronaldo - Performances (wums will be thread banned)
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Yeah scorer should shoulder the blame. Sounds legit.
I didn't say Nani was bad. Maybe it reads differently to how I meant. I was trying to imply that the better chances fell to him and he had more clear opportunities to decide the match. And that he should have. He was clearly Portugal's best attacker tonight.
There's playing for the team and then there's Ronaldo. Stopping whenever he's touched, taking every free kick regardless of success rate, insisting on his highly erratic free kick technique regardless of scenario, ignoring obvious passes for pot shots from 30 yards out. Did everything I dislike about him tonight. You can afford this play for Real Madrid but for a lesser team you'll get found out, especially when players on the other side are giving their all.
It would help if he could look at them for once. There are players making good overlapping runs but he's Cristiano Ronaldo and all the glory must belong to him so shoot even if it makes no sense to shoot. Ridiculous and selfish performance. That cross to Nani is the only good thing he did.
No, the best chance to win it fell to Ronaldo, from Nani's cross, an absolute sitter from a beautiful cross.
Ronaldo was awful tonight mate, Nani played for the team, scored and created.
Come on man.
Nani, not Ronaldo BT.
Two almost unopposed headers and that air-shot.
Fair enough.
I really wish commentators stopped saying "this is Ronaldo territory". The only Ronaldo territory there is is 2 yards from goal.
Agree with that, it's laziness. He was up to 2 goals from 88 attempts at one point earlier in the season. It's simply not a major part of his game that he can rely on anymore.
What a terrible performance. Portugal are actually one of the most talented teams in the tournament so the "poor team" excuse doesn't fly anymore. Wonder if he'll get slagged off like the Belgians were last night.
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It didn't used to be though.
It was never to the extent of Messi, but he had seasons where his overall impact was great and his goal scoring didn't suffer too much.
Iceland did a great job on him.
He is showing signs of burnout from the season with Real Madrid where he played most of the games for 90 minutes. They ain't going far in this tournament.
One of Ronaldos biggest disappointments will be that he never won a trophy with Portugal. This is probably his last chance in his prime.
I do wonder how long Ronaldo can burn the candle for both ends playing internationally and for Real Madrid every week?? He will need to make a decision the next few years to prolong his Real Madrid career or leave Real Madrid for a smaller club who will accept that.
He is showing signs of burnout from the season with Real Madrid where he played most of the games for 90 minutes. They ain't going far in this tournament.
One of Ronaldos biggest disappointments will be that he never won a trophy with Portugal. This is probably his last chance in his prime.
I do wonder how long Ronaldo can burn the candle for both ends playing internationally and for Real Madrid every week?? He will need to make a decision the next few years to prolong his Real Madrid career or leave Real Madrid for a smaller club who will accept that.
He's 31 now, not a young man any more.
He's just been able to convince the world he's still a top player by stat padding.
He created 1 chance. Nani's free header that he should have scored. In my fairly critical post of Ronaldo, I've stated a fact.
Are you saying he's not a top player anymore? That's a bit of an exaggeration no?
This is pretty much how he plays at Real. Real just creates far more clear-cut chances so that's how he pushes it to 50 goals.
did you miss nanis cross to ronaldo where he had a free header?
The only problem that I had with him here was his poor finishing and shot selection. He was playing as a striker not a deep lying playmaker guys. Don't understand the need to berate him because he was doing his job? Admittedly a very poor one. He had a bad game. Lets move on.
Well he's a top goalscorer but not really much of a player who is going to make the difference for you're team when their backs are against the wall.
How are people slagging off Nani? He was way better than Ronaldo today.
Should have scored
I would disagree with that 2nd bit.
I don't disagree that his overall game has greatly diminished though.
No I didn't David. You highlighted my comment about creating stuff. I've corrected you fairly.
Ronaldo did not have a good night. There's no wumming going on here. I'm not that sad.
Unconvincing performance from Ronnie.
I was quite shocked he missed that close range header on 70 mins and the ineffectiveness of the late long range free kicks.
He needs to rally his side: it has plenty of talent and experience but he has to unite it with his midas touch.
Bale wins round 1 in terms of influence.
I was quite shocked he missed that close range header on 70 mins and the ineffectiveness of the late long range free kicks.
He needs to rally his side: it has plenty of talent and experience but he has to unite it with his midas touch.
Bale wins round 1 in terms of influence.
So is most of his career in the past few years to be honest. Glorified Huntelaar.
Awful performance today.
Didn't he lead his team past Wolfsburg when they were 2-0 down on aggregate?
On another day he would have had two goals.
Meh, such is football.
Meh, such is football.
You don't notice Ronaldo in a game unless he's getting on the end of chances from his team.
He's not going to give you anything other than that in 9/10 matches.
Should have shot.
Weren't real madrid on top of Wolfsburg though for most of the match? I didn't see that match but that was the impression I got that they were the much better team overall.
The media doesn't help. When they start comparing him to Messi it is just farcical. Then he gets 90+ ratings in football games and is always dribbling umprteen players in adverts so people think he is some elite dribbler. he hasn't been a good dribbler for at least 5 years. In this era, I rate Messi, Iniesta and Xavi above him. I would even say what Suarez did for Liverpool, CR could never do because he literally carried an average Liverpool on his back to a title. He scored 31 goals and could have broken the EPL gs record if Gerrard wasn't taking all the penalties.
People get some sort of cognitive dissonance when analysing CRs abilities, it's bizarre to watch.
I swear recently he has just let his ego get ridiculous? Used to have some kind of team ethic. Now he seems to only care about himself. Even willing to put the CL at risk by having their no.1 penalty taker go 5th in the shoot-out just for personal glory. Tonight he was very selfish.
When you think about it he is a million miles off the player from 2006/07, now he is just a goal machine. That is easier to come by when playing with Modric, Kroos, Bale etc.
I'm not saying he's far past it but definitely not as good to watch.
When you think about it he is a million miles off the player from 2006/07, now he is just a goal machine. That is easier to come by when playing with Modric, Kroos, Bale etc.
I'm not saying he's far past it but definitely not as good to watch.
He's a highlights player. Most people don't watch him play they just see 2 mins of action of a whole 90 minute match and because he scored a couple of tap ins he is this amazing unbelievable player.
That's right. He lead them against an awful side that Lewandowski put 5 past off the bench. The same way he led Portugal to the Euros against Sweden despite doing nothing for them in the easiest WC QF group. Notice the pattern here? Against PSG x2, Atletico and Manchester City what did he do? He scored 16 goals but none of them were against any of the best sides Madrid played. In the League he scored 1 goal against the other top 3 sides. What does this tell you? Against the best of the best were Madrid can't create chances for him he becomes essentially ineffective and a passenger. Please give me an example of an elite team that CR absolutely dominated.
Every player can have a bad finishing day but it shouldn't have made turn into some sort super savior. His second half was ridiculous, he was trying so hard to score from everywhere.
This is true. Real Madrid create more chances for him so he's bound to score which gives people the false illusion he had a great game. But he misses so many chances and takes many shots for Real Madrid too, goals mask his poor performances.
But how many other strikers would score the same amount of goals if the Real Madrid team was built around them? I guess we will see when Real Madrid leavers them..
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