Inter striker Edin Dzeko was one of the Serie A players on target in tonight’s World Cup qualifiers, but Cristiano Ronaldo’s late brace for Portugal set a new world record, despite missing a penalty.
Dzeko had given Bosnia and Herzegovina the lead in France this evening, cancelled out a few minutes later by Antoine Griezmann.
Jules Koundé was sent off for an awful tackle on Sead Kolasinac, but the result did not change.
France saw Roma midfielder Jordan Veretout make his senior debut in the starting XI.
Atalanta wingback Joakim Maehle scored in Denmark’s 2-0 victory over Scotland, while Dusan Vlahovic and Nikola Milenkovic of Fiorentina were both on target in Serbia’s 4-0 World Cup preparation win over Qatar.
CR7 might’ve left Juventus, but he is still racking up the records and single-handedly rescued Portugal from a shock home defeat to the Republic of Ireland.
He was level with Iran’s Ali Daei on 109 international goals and needed just one to set the new all-time record.
That might’ve come from the penalty spot, except it was parried by 19-year-old Gavin Bazunu, and Ireland then took the lead.
However, Ronaldo made the difference with two towering headers at the 88th minute and deep into stoppages for a 2-1 turnaround, taking his goal tally to 111.
WOW, WOW, WOW 🔥
Ronaldo has done it again 👏👏 pic.twitter.com/TOWu9HFqMC
— Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) September 1, 2021
Hope juve board are getting fired
Lost the most followed person the world and single handle helped and carried this pathetic juve team and management
His comments tell
The truth he is where he DESERVES !!! At Man U
The second goal came at least 20 seconds past the allocated stoppage time. 5 minutes given and Ronaldo scored at 5 minutes and 21 seconds. Portugal were on the centre circle when it was already 5 mins of stoppages played. Also. I’d argue that Ronaldo’s shoulder was marginally offside. Ireland got robbed.
jaz garcha you sound like a cr7 fanboy. sad. why is football italia obsessed with ronaldo. he doesnt play in serie a aymore. who cares what he does.
rosario and serie a lover thought their dear juve will be saved by Dybala. These ppl would never admit that its their club who dont have any clue how to utilize this phenomenon.
Kids.
What are we referring to hear? What did Ronaldo do at Euro 2020?
@rosario The game was a stitch up. Even the penalty gifted to Ronaldo was not a penalty. The free kick award late in the game just outside the box was also a gift fabricated for Ronaldo to break the record. The officials let the game continue until Portugal got the winner. The little guy, Ireland in this case got sacrificed and nothing will be said about it. The ref wanted to be able to say he was part of history and Uefa wanted a hero and thats what the papers will all write about today.
Jorghinio
Was the best scorer of euro,
Did you see euro?
I only hope these are facetious comments otherwise the conspiracy theories on here are becoming a bit much. Cherry picking individual incidents that you don’t like? How’s that any different from what English fans and media tried to do after the Italy game? We get it, you don’t like Ronaldo.