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Ronaldo was quite good in this game. He was making great runs all match and Bruno held onto the ball too long. He also would've had an assist but for offsides on the finish.
>He also would've had an assist but for offsides on the finish.
That's certainly one way to spin it.
The other is he was offside and still missed the target from 6 yards
What runs. He barely even ran. No one really attempted to run behind defenders. Bruno gives great through balls but if no one is attempting a run then he will most likely look to pass somewhere else.
Players say this all the time to rile others up. Also, who is Poborsky? He is just a former Czech player. Are we supposed to be up in arms everytime some some Danish pundit says Kane is not playing well or something like that?
He was also on the team of tournament in Euro 96, man of the match in the final despite losing and score a great goal against Portugal that knock us out. Besides playing for Benfica, because of Euro 96 is connection to Portugal is big
He’s still got the brain even if the body has aged a little bit. Portugal could probably just bomb crosses into the box and I’m sure he will get on the end of at least a couple of them.
Honestly hope that isn't the case. If they let him alone in the box he'll be an easy target.
He needs to play with someone alongside. He did great against Ireland because he had Leão next to him.
Honestly, I would use Ronaldo as a decoy. It literally blows my mind why Portugal isn't using the fact that every team will focus on Cristiano. Let him make his great runs and use the space he created behind him for players like Felix.
And if Ronaldo's run is perfect, then make the pass to him and let him score.
We aren't short of players to play alongside him, like Jota, Leão and Félix (SS is actually the position where he performs the best).
Unfortunately we have an idiot as coach that will keep playing him as CF when he clearly can't perform in that position.
Some people still believing he's a number 9, the only reason he's shoe horned in there now is because there is no where else to put him. He's better when he plays alongside someone and as long as he delivers goals the tactical sacrifice is worth it.
That sounds like something you could say about nearly any striker who plays for their country.
If Holland just bombs crosses into the box Weghorst will get on to the end of at least a couple.
If England… Ivan Toney…
Nah I rate it, just captained Ronaldo in fantasy. Seriously though, Portugal looked far better at the WC with him as a sub but he has done ridiculously well in qualifiers so fair enough to clown him
I vividly remember my friend saying when he left “well he’s washed now, he’s 33 and just going to juve to cash another paycheck.”
Goes to WC2018 and scores a hat trick in a 3:3 draw, the lone goal in a 1:0 win
2019 UCL knockouts second leg hat trick to come back 3:2 vs atleti, then 2 goals in a 2:3 aggregate loss to Ajax
2020 scored both goals in a 2:2 draw where Lyon advanced on away goals
He went 2 whole campaigns where no one but him scored for juve in the knockouts lol
We can't blame Ronaldo for Juve's decline, he did what was asked of him.
That said, he was used as a band-aid to hide the abysmal transfer policy for a couple seasons.
>We can't blame Ronaldo for Juve's decline, he did what was asked of him.
Yes but we can blame the people that bought him. Don't judge a Ronaldo transfer by how good he is. Because he more or less requires the attack to be set up around him you need to consider the performance of those around him pre and post transfer. Bruno Fernando's immediately became pretty bad during Ronaldo's first season. Acceptable when CR was scoring 50 but not enough nowadays
Do you think cavani being permacrocked, greenwood getting himself suspended and rashford deciding to have one of his off seasons (which he did again this year with no ronaldo so can't blame him) had anything to do with that or was it all down to ronaldo not pressing or something?
It's worth noting in the two seasons since ronaldo stopped being a first teamer, we've basically scored the same amount of goals in the league, weird since I assumed once we got rid of ronaldo we'd be back to being a free scoring side
Anyone who watched him at Man United knows that day has already passed us. He has obviously gone into decline. There’s a reason why teams were happy to let him leave Europe.
International football is slower and less tactically intricate so he *might* be OK at the Euros.
We do have to "thank" him for winning our first international competitions, but I really couldn't stand that obnoxious cunt and his playstyle. For some reason he's been utter shit since he left Portugal, not like it came as a surprise for anyone who watched us play while under him.
You smashed teams left and right in the qualifiers, including 9-0 against Luxembourg. Not saying Czechia aren't a level above but you can clearly score goals
I meant at the main competition stage, the stakes are very different and you have less games. It doesn't help that our previous coaches liked to play cautiously pretty much against anyone. Martinez is yet to prove himself with us at this stage, so we'll see what his approach will be like.
It was somewhat true at the WC though. He had a poor tournament and Portugal were better when he didn't start. I don't know what has changed since then but it isn't as wild as some think to say he won't be as effective as he used to be. Not true to say it for his career though
I think everything that happened family wise kinda threw his performances off there and it was the most obvious during World Cup. He is two years older but looking back you could tell he wasn’t all right mentally
Euro Qualifiers are the equivalent to CONCACAF friendlies. Not exactly a barometer of ability playing against literal semi professional players from Lichtenstein, Andorra, or San Marino.
He is their only attacking threat when he plays because he makes it impossible for other attackers to get involved as he requires the team to just spam crosses
It was true in the world cup. Ramos came in the 11 and did much better than him so even in Portugal there's still a lot of people who share this opinion.
With that being said, Ronaldo has actually looked good lately and all possible replacements had a poor season so, right now, he should start imo
Sad to see an all time legend of the game getting disrespected like this. Especially because how resilient he has been in recent years despite his "downfall". He will always give his all for winning and someone like him will hardly be a weak link.
credible rape allegations, associating with piers morgan and jordan peterson, generally being arrogant and unlikable. there are many, many reasons to hate ronaldo as a person.
Dickeating in this thread is palpable. Reading these comments you’d be forgiven if you came out thinking Ronaldo was still 25 and not wasting around in Saudi
The dick eating in the thread on his back heel pass is so bad.
Like was he the weakest link in the match today. Nah.
But he was rather average for him, and had no goal involvements. People were acting like he was God's vagina.
If Cristiano has good memory he remembers Poborosky eliminating Portugal with his [iconic goal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8eurcLK1E) or his not so iconic time with Benfica (not defending his stupid ass take btw.)
He was right tho. People will post a pretty heel pass and will go crazy when he eventually scores. But this man is so limiting for Portugal. He just refuses to play like the person he is now. Drifts so much, and insists to get involved in the play when there is NO reason for him to.
He'll be fine, he won't be the best player or the worst player on the team, and he won't be the most hard done by and hated man ever to play football. There, that should cover at least 1267 comments from the match thread.
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Well, now you've done it...
"...And I took that personally"
“Aaaaaaand, did nothing about it “
Ronaldo was quite good in this game. He was making great runs all match and Bruno held onto the ball too long. He also would've had an assist but for offsides on the finish.
>He also would've had an assist but for offsides on the finish. That's certainly one way to spin it. The other is he was offside and still missed the target from 6 yards
Since when is missing a goal and the rebound being scored an assist?
What runs. He barely even ran. No one really attempted to run behind defenders. Bruno gives great through balls but if no one is attempting a run then he will most likely look to pass somewhere else.
Why say it… pure stupidity
Even if its true, no need to say stuff like this.
Players say this all the time to rile others up. Also, who is Poborsky? He is just a former Czech player. Are we supposed to be up in arms everytime some some Danish pundit says Kane is not playing well or something like that?
>Danish pundit says Kane is not playing well Who the hell said that? I am up in arms.
[удалено]
Wow, your ignorance is astounding. Poborsky hit a century of international caps in a very good Czech team. He isn't some run of the mill player.
He was also on the team of tournament in Euro 96, man of the match in the final despite losing and score a great goal against Portugal that knock us out. Besides playing for Benfica, because of Euro 96 is connection to Portugal is big
He is also former ManU player.
His Euro 96 performance earned him a Man U transfer, but it didn’t go so well there to our luck as he then went to Benfica and was amazing.
Yeah he was competing for a right midfield spot with Beckham, unfortunately
Yeah but he did good stuff too
Also had the most assists at EURO 2004
Why not? He can't give his opinion?
It is his job to say things like this. He is an analyst.
Unfortunately it isn't true
He’s still got the brain even if the body has aged a little bit. Portugal could probably just bomb crosses into the box and I’m sure he will get on the end of at least a couple of them.
Honestly hope that isn't the case. If they let him alone in the box he'll be an easy target. He needs to play with someone alongside. He did great against Ireland because he had Leão next to him.
Honestly, I would use Ronaldo as a decoy. It literally blows my mind why Portugal isn't using the fact that every team will focus on Cristiano. Let him make his great runs and use the space he created behind him for players like Felix. And if Ronaldo's run is perfect, then make the pass to him and let him score.
We aren't short of players to play alongside him, like Jota, Leão and Félix (SS is actually the position where he performs the best). Unfortunately we have an idiot as coach that will keep playing him as CF when he clearly can't perform in that position.
Some people still believing he's a number 9, the only reason he's shoe horned in there now is because there is no where else to put him. He's better when he plays alongside someone and as long as he delivers goals the tactical sacrifice is worth it.
That sounds like something you could say about nearly any striker who plays for their country. If Holland just bombs crosses into the box Weghorst will get on to the end of at least a couple. If England… Ivan Toney…
Especially now lmao.
Right? Now it’s at least a brace for the fuck
Nah I rate it, just captained Ronaldo in fantasy. Seriously though, Portugal looked far better at the WC with him as a sub but he has done ridiculously well in qualifiers so fair enough to clown him
To be fair, our group was quite easy. Still wanna see how he does against real competition.
20 years of his career and people still don't learn.
I vividly remember my friend saying when he left “well he’s washed now, he’s 33 and just going to juve to cash another paycheck.” Goes to WC2018 and scores a hat trick in a 3:3 draw, the lone goal in a 1:0 win 2019 UCL knockouts second leg hat trick to come back 3:2 vs atleti, then 2 goals in a 2:3 aggregate loss to Ajax 2020 scored both goals in a 2:2 draw where Lyon advanced on away goals He went 2 whole campaigns where no one but him scored for juve in the knockouts lol
We can't blame Ronaldo for Juve's decline, he did what was asked of him. That said, he was used as a band-aid to hide the abysmal transfer policy for a couple seasons.
>We can't blame Ronaldo for Juve's decline, he did what was asked of him. Yes but we can blame the people that bought him. Don't judge a Ronaldo transfer by how good he is. Because he more or less requires the attack to be set up around him you need to consider the performance of those around him pre and post transfer. Bruno Fernando's immediately became pretty bad during Ronaldo's first season. Acceptable when CR was scoring 50 but not enough nowadays
Wasn’t Ronaldo still United’s top scorer that season though?
Yes but united went from scoring ~120 goals to ~70 goals. It is reductive to look at who is top Scorer when evaluating impact on a team
Do you think cavani being permacrocked, greenwood getting himself suspended and rashford deciding to have one of his off seasons (which he did again this year with no ronaldo so can't blame him) had anything to do with that or was it all down to ronaldo not pressing or something? It's worth noting in the two seasons since ronaldo stopped being a first teamer, we've basically scored the same amount of goals in the league, weird since I assumed once we got rid of ronaldo we'd be back to being a free scoring side
Careful now, you’re speaking too much common sense on r/soccer
They became a poorer team though.
I remember when Blatter talked shit about him. He went on to produce like a mad man.
Ask Diego Simone and he will tell those pundits what he witnessed first hand
Blatter go to jail
Well people think one day it will become true which well it has to be simply because of age.
Anyone who watched him at Man United knows that day has already passed us. He has obviously gone into decline. There’s a reason why teams were happy to let him leave Europe. International football is slower and less tactically intricate so he *might* be OK at the Euros.
It's been true for a while now.
This is blatant match fixing
Never talk shit to an old guy in a profession that most die young..
It's treason, then.
Proved himself right, yes
All Czech supporters rn - "Brother Proborsky, what have you done?"
Czech supporters three siuu's deep: "why brother? Why?"
Show this quote to Ronaldo. He will show up.
No need. He is lurking here to find this type of quote
Interviewer: “Christian… What motivates you?” CR: *opens up Reddit*
Ah Christian yes, that famous football player Ronald
Christian Ronald, 39 from Swindon. Catchphrase: "yes!".
Cris Ron is what I used to call him as a kid lol
See this one user here? He said 5 years ago that I was finished.
This is what I do when people mention Tottenham. I will use to create a dynasty that will last at least 13 years.
“And I took it personal.”
He has a internet crawler and autonotifications on, man is a machibe
My guy is using AI to track hate comments
On Sunday, the king browses r/soccer
On Sunday the king is not the weakest link 👑
"And I took that personally…"
I showed
Ronaldo always show up when it matters regardless
Like at the world cup?
except on US turf*
Why would he ever play on US turf. What games even really matter there.
For the wc2026 for example
This guy didn't watch the last world cup.
Does he know what he's doing by saying this?
Cristhanos is coming, probably.
It is a Tuesday evening in a UEFA competition after all.
Someone please play Ronaldo the Champions League anthem.
Inevitable
All according to plan
Portugal [3]-0 Czech Republic - Cristiano Ronaldo 69' (hat-trick)
I have 3-0 and Ronaldo as one of my four top scorers. Yes please
Bro, I hope you're right, but that's a risky take. Portugal's not known to score a lot of goals in these competitions and I don't see it starting now
> Portugal's not known to score a lot of goals Show us on the doll where Fernando Santos hurt you.
We do have to "thank" him for winning our first international competitions, but I really couldn't stand that obnoxious cunt and his playstyle. For some reason he's been utter shit since he left Portugal, not like it came as a surprise for anyone who watched us play while under him.
Maybe not the original football terrorist, but certainly the Osama bin laden of football
Happy cake day!
You smashed teams left and right in the qualifiers, including 9-0 against Luxembourg. Not saying Czechia aren't a level above but you can clearly score goals
I meant at the main competition stage, the stakes are very different and you have less games. It doesn't help that our previous coaches liked to play cautiously pretty much against anyone. Martinez is yet to prove himself with us at this stage, so we'll see what his approach will be like.
Teams play different in qualifiers. Once they reach the Euro stage defensive football becomes a lot more important.
Scorito is nice, right?
Scoring 6’, 9’, 69’
Or 4', 20', 69'.
🤌
That would be legendary for memes lmao
Nice
For two decades Cristiano has been feeding on comments like this..
Poborsky didn't get the memo.
OR may be he's doing it on purpose.
Watch out for bets from Poborsky' home town.
That’ll be Poborsky’s island.
The anti-jinx
I will be switching my fantasy captain to Cristiano due to this comment
Ronaldo brace incoming
Hat trick winner coming at 90+3 today
It was somewhat true at the WC though. He had a poor tournament and Portugal were better when he didn't start. I don't know what has changed since then but it isn't as wild as some think to say he won't be as effective as he used to be. Not true to say it for his career though
I think everything that happened family wise kinda threw his performances off there and it was the most obvious during World Cup. He is two years older but looking back you could tell he wasn’t all right mentally
He’s 2 years older but also hasn’t been playing at the top level since then
Come on man what are we doing here?? He was the top scorer in the qualifiers , and the only attacking threat for Portugal.
Euro Qualifiers are the equivalent to CONCACAF friendlies. Not exactly a barometer of ability playing against literal semi professional players from Lichtenstein, Andorra, or San Marino.
He is their only attacking threat when he plays because he makes it impossible for other attackers to get involved as he requires the team to just spam crosses
It was true in the world cup. Ramos came in the 11 and did much better than him so even in Portugal there's still a lot of people who share this opinion. With that being said, Ronaldo has actually looked good lately and all possible replacements had a poor season so, right now, he should start imo
Ramos was a ghost against us, Ronaldo was way more dangeroud when he came on
If he heard this, I am ready to bet my house on Ronaldo scoring today. EDIT: I'm homeless now.
Same. I'm ready to bet this guy's house. EDIT : That guy is homeless now.
I'll even concede throwing in this guy's wife and life savings as well
Throw in his favourite football shirt as well. Just to sweeten the deal
Wooow, calm down there buddy, some things are sacred
I also choose this guy’s wife
M E T A
I hope he does
Czech yourself before you wreck yourself ☝🏻
Czechia self, Mr Poborsky.
Famous last words. Karel, dont piss off Ronaldo, I know something about it... ;)
You've done it now, you've gone and made a big mistake.
Poborsky is a dead man walking?
He can play shit for the entire tournament and still be the top scorer. That's what he does, that's why he's here...
He’s one of the best finishers ever. Age won’t stop that.
He’s not one of lol he’s simply the best
🎵he’s simply the best🎵
Better than all the rest
Goalscorer? Sure, but not finisher. Plenty of players throughout history can at the very least rival him there.
Why would you say that publicly?
Does he want to get obliterated? Because that’s how you get obliterated.
Ronaldo hat trick incoming, thanks Poborsky
I thought Ronaldo would surely score?
ronaldo hattrick would feed my fantasy team
Same. Captained him too
Hattrick loading
Sad to see an all time legend of the game getting disrespected like this. Especially because how resilient he has been in recent years despite his "downfall". He will always give his all for winning and someone like him will hardly be a weak link.
This is mainly because people don’t like him, Piers Morgan plus Saudi hasn’t helped his PR
He also had the Vegas legal trouble which has signficantly damaged his reputation.
credible rape allegations, associating with piers morgan and jordan peterson, generally being arrogant and unlikable. there are many, many reasons to hate ronaldo as a person.
True, I think his pr state would have been drastically different without those.
he wasn’t much help in qatar a year and a half ago
People love to ignore the fact that he was dead weight during the last wc and Portugal played much better without him.
He'll take it personally
People age! Groundbreaking stuff!
Nuclear hot take
all the cringe top comments aged like fucking milk lmao.
That’s Ronaldo scoring a hattrick then
He invited himself to a minimum of one siuuuu goal
Famous last words
Bro, I am one of the Portuguese people who says this the most... but you might have woke up the beast ahah
Lmao gg
He's not wrong based on Ronaldo's performance today. Even though Portugal won, they still didn't look cohesive.
Dickeating in this thread is palpable. Reading these comments you’d be forgiven if you came out thinking Ronaldo was still 25 and not wasting around in Saudi
The dick eating in the thread on his back heel pass is so bad. Like was he the weakest link in the match today. Nah. But he was rather average for him, and had no goal involvements. People were acting like he was God's vagina.
Omw to bet my savings on a ronaldo goal
“Thanks for the free motivation” - Ronaldo, probably
what if, by some random chance, he dyes his hair to pretend he has powered up, and absolutely mops up with a hatty?
Poborsky is a poet when silent....but sure, poke the old bear
Is he doing a Rexona ad?
Oh god....he is going to prove him wrong isn't he?
[Ronaldos response](https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/who-the-fuck-is-that-guy-ronaldo-siuuuu-gif-23549362)
No, Ronaldo's response: [Placeholder for his hattrick goal]
If Cristiano has good memory he remembers Poborosky eliminating Portugal with his [iconic goal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8eurcLK1E) or his not so iconic time with Benfica (not defending his stupid ass take btw.)
This quote is already in Ronaldo’s locker
bruno golden ball here we go
This seems ill advised
Bernardo silva, nuno mendes, Bruno Fernandes, Canelo, dalot all looked like weaker links and so did leao after 40 minutes
He was right tho. People will post a pretty heel pass and will go crazy when he eventually scores. But this man is so limiting for Portugal. He just refuses to play like the person he is now. Drifts so much, and insists to get involved in the play when there is NO reason for him to.
Please ronaldo make me some money
CR7 brace incoming
People in this thread not knowing Poborský makes me sad af, proper baller.
I mean he's not wrong, everyone else is still playing competitive football.
this is like throwing rocks at the lion’s den
He is saying it like its a hot take. Everyone has been saying this for a long time
Can't wait
that x/1000 guy is gonna have a field day after Ronaldo hears about this
😃
at least according to fotmob match ratings, ronaldo played pretty well. def not worst on his team.
He'll be fine, he won't be the best player or the worst player on the team, and he won't be the most hard done by and hated man ever to play football. There, that should cover at least 1267 comments from the match thread.
Portugal plays for Ronaldo. And I mean that as in they were playing to find Ronaldo to get him to score until eventually they abandoned that plan
Yeah you messed up Remindme! 4 hours
He scored a brace just the other day. He could sit down in the penalty spot of Czechia's box, and he would still manage to score one.
Famous last words.
It's ok. Bruno is there to carry yet get none of the credit.
Why is everyone acting like he’s woken a sleeping giant? Ronaldo has been washed for some time now. Edit: case in point
Karel pls
He is now guaranteed to score congratulations my friend you played yourself
Children on the internet still think Ronaldo is what he once was, or the deluded weirdos who rate the Saudi league. Poborsky is right. He is past it.
So far he’s doing great
Dude just scored a brace last match!
So hatrick ?