Cristiano Ronaldo’s tears turned out after the Euro 2024 a match.
Goalkeeper Diogo Costa saved Portugal’s honor on the night of Cristiano Ronaldo’s tears and laughter in Frankfurt on Monday.
His three saves in the tiebreaker took Portugal to the quarter-finals. Neither team could score in the allotted time. Ronaldo’s team won 3-0 in the tiebreaker.
Apart from Ronaldo, Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva scored in the tiebreaker. Portugal will play France in the quarter-finals.
Ronaldo played 120 minutes in the entire match. He got four freekicks in the match. Three of them are in their own “area.” Ronaldo could not score in any of them.
Not only that, he missed a penalty in the first half of extra time and cried. Despite having 15 minutes left in the game.
However, after scoring in the tiebreaker, Ronaldo’s face finally smiled a little. Costa widened the smile. He saved Slovenia’s first three shots in the tiebreaker.
Portugal came down with only one goal against Slovenia. Attacking the opponent’s navel in the attack. That’s what they did from the beginning.
Cristiano Ronaldo appealed for a penalty in the eighth minute. Darkusic took the ball away before Rafael Leao’s pass went to Ronaldo. Ronaldo fell into the box in the ball. The referee didn’t care.
Portugal went on the attack to play multiple passes between themselves, but they could not stop Slovenia’s defense.
Portugal’s attack was stopping near the box. Not only that, they were occasionally attacking Portugal, worrying them.
Darkusic kept Ronaldo in tight marking. He was not allowing the Portuguese captain to move. In the 30th minute, Ronaldo got a chance.
Vitinha picked up a cross. But Ronaldo’s head went directly to Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak.
Four minutes later, Portugal got a freekick outside the box. Darkusic fouled Liao. Ronaldo got a freekick within his own area.
His shot went over an inch of the crossbar. If the goalkeeper had nothing to do. After that, Ronaldo became increasingly aggressive.
Four minutes later, Portugal got another freekick outside the box. This time, however, Ronaldo’s shot was not close to the goal.
From the beginning of the second half, Portugal’s dominance was more. But this time Slovenia was not giving up.
Once Portugal went on the attack, Slovenia was rising in the next moment. In the 54th minute, Portugal again got a freekick in a good place. Ronaldo came running a lot and took a shot. Oblak stood in the right place. Fist out the ball.
Slovenia looked like they would not give up the fight without a fight. Portugal’s footballers were fighting in the eyes of the eyes.
When they got the chance, they were on the attack. Once Sesco wasted an easy chance. Portugal could not break Slovenia’s defense.
Diogo Jota extended a good pass to Ronaldo at the end of the scheduled time. Ronaldo’s left-footed shot goes directly to Oblak.
At the end of the game, the players of both teams made multiple attacks but the goal did not come.
Portugal’s footballers started to look tired after the start of extra time. Slovenia looked very confident. Portugal got a penalty at the end of the first half of extra time.
After Jota entered the box, Darkusic stopped him. Ronaldo goes for the penalty. The goalkeeper on the opposite side has played for a long time at Atletico Madrid.
He knew Ronaldo well during his time at Real Madrid and Juventus. He saved Ronaldo’s shot by jumping to the left.
After the miss, Ronaldo covered his face with his hands. Tears can be seen in his eyes as he moves his hand. Although the teammates rushed to comfort him, the Portuguese captain did not stop crying.
There were still 15 minutes left in the match. Portugal still had a chance. It was not understood to see Ronaldo’s tears. His team seemed to be gone.
In the 115th minute, Slovenia got the easiest chance of the match. The ball slipped from Pepe’s foot while passing. Sesco was in front. He keeps moving with the ball.
There was no one in front except Portugal’s goalkeeper alone. Sesco shot through the corner. Diogo Costa saved the shot with his left foot.
Tears in son’s eyes on the field, mother crying in the gallery, ‘My last European Championship’ Cristiano Ronaldo
That scene was seen in the Euros on Monday night. And after the match, Ronaldo said that this is his last Euro Cup.
Portugal got a penalty in extra time against Slovenia. Ronaldo wasted the chance to score. The match is made in the tiebreaker.
Ronaldo did not make a mistake to score there. Portugal beat Slovenia 3-0 on penalties to reach the quarter-finals.
Ronaldo is now 39 years old. The Euro Cup will be held again in four years. Ronaldo will be 43 years old at the time.
As a result, it will not be possible for him to play the Euro Cup again after four years. Ronaldo did not score a goal in this year’s Euro Cup before scoring in the tiebreaker against Slovenia.
That’s why he cried after the penalty on Monday night. His mother could not control herself after seeing her son crying. He also sat in the audience and cried.
Ronaldo has previously said that his mother is passionate about the game. That’s why Ronaldo forbade his mother to come to watch the game.
His mother fainted after watching big matches twice. But Ronaldo’s mother cannot sit at home when the country has a match. So he came to Germany to see the Euros.
Portugal beat Slovenia to reach the quarter-finals. In that phase, Ronaldo will have to play against France.
Kylian Mbappe has reached the quarter-finals by defeating Belgium. The two teams will meet on Friday night.
Ronaldo wasting the penalty, but the Portugal coach did not feel the need to console
According to him, captain Ronaldo himself keeps the whole team in front. There is no need to deal with him separately. He didn’t even feel the need to comfort him.
“Ronaldo doesn’t need much care,” the Portugal coach said after reaching the Euro 2020 pre-quarterfinals.
I thank him for that. Ronaldo takes care of the whole team. Even after wasting the penalty, I was sure that Ronaldo would take the first shot at the tiebreaker and show us the way to victory.
On CR7’s penalty miss, he said, “Like life, there are difficult times in football. Ronaldo’s reaction is a real example.
In Portuguese football we are really proud to have a player like him. Ronaldo did not make the mistake of scoring in the tiebreaker despite missing a penalty in extra time against Slovenia.
“We are very proud of our captain,” Martinez said. Ronaldo always keeps our dressing room happy.
He teaches us how to live every day. You need to raise your standards as high as possible. Never give up. ’’
Portugal’s coach is not worried about the team not playing as expected against Slovenia. Portugal will have to play against Kylian Mbappe’s France in the quarter-finals.
“I’m not thinking about what happened,” Martinez said. Our goal is now the next match. We have three days in hand. This time is enough to prepare.
France are a very strong team. No doubt it will be a tough match. I know they will try to get us into trouble. We’ll have a chance too. Must be used. ’’
After the Slovenia match, Ronaldo said that this is his last Euro. Portugal’s coach said that everyone in the team is desperate to give the captain the best gift.
Cristiano Ronaldo is no, Diego Costa hero as Portugal reach last eight
In the end, goalkeeper Diego Costa brought a smile on the face of Portugal fans in the tiebreaker.
Cristiano Ronaldo played the full 120 minutes of the match. He also got more than one free-kick from his favorite place in the whole match.
But CR7 could not use it. He also wasted a chance to score. Portugal got a penalty in the 105th minute of extra time. But Ronaldo missed it. CR7 was also seen crying on the field after missing the penalty.
Slovenia created multiple scoring opportunities in the match. If luck was helpful, the match would not have been tied to the tiebreaker.
In the 115th minute, Slovenia got the easiest chance of the match. Slovenia could not score even after getting Diaga Costa alone. The last guard of the Portuguese defense saved the shot with great speed.
After 120 minutes, the game went to the tiebreaker. Diego Costa made three of his saves in the tiebreaker. He is also the hero of the match.
Cristiano Ronaldo missed the penalty but missed the tiebreaker. He scored in the tiebreaker and apologized for missing the penalty.
Frankfurt witnesses Cristiano Ronaldo’s tears and laughter. Portugal will face France in the quarter-finals.
Diogo Costa as hero who went down in the history of the Europeans
After avoiding Benjamin Sesko’s celebrations in the 115th minute with a truly phenomenal left-footed save Leipzig’s Slovenian striker was isolated the FC Porto player became the first goalkeeper to stop three penalties in a UEFA European Championship.
At the age of 24, Diogo Costa, who is the most valuable goalkeeper in the world according to Transfermarkt he is valued at 40 million euros lived one of the most remarkable moments of his career and became a national hero.
At the end of the game he hugged Ronaldo, who was left in tears after missing a penalty: “First of all, Ronaldo is an example for us.
He takes six Europeans and feels responsibility, desire and belief, which are incredible emotions for someone so experienced and who doesn’t need to prove anything.
After missing a penalty – which only those who hit can miss and here we have to congratulate Oblak – he was the first to say that he had to take the first penalty in the shoot-out, and he scored.
The dressing room is delightful and this is a lesson that we have to live each day as if it were our last. Football creates difficulties, but we are very proud of it and of Portuguese football.”
Vitinha’s departure and Francisco Conceição’s entry in another position: “The state of the grass motivated that, it didn’t help with the ball and I’m not going to say that it was good for Slovenia and bad for Portugal, but I think we both suffered with the ball.
The inside game with Vitinha couldn’t work with the risk you need to have, the passing lines in the inside game favoured Slovenia and I tried to give width and freshness with Francisco.
I had to take Vitinha off because we couldn’t use the patterns we had in the inside game and I tried to take risks with attacking players, as happened with Diogo Jota.
The idea was to have Rúben Neves because he is a good penalty taker and in general use the energy of Nélson Semedo. Looking back, it was a good decision to leave eight players out against Georgia.”
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It’s one thing to debate the styles, with one team with the ball and the other defending, what depends on the execution and Slovenia were very good there, but we played a good attacking game.
It was difficult today, with a slow pitch, but we had 20 attacks, 11 corners, three players from their defensive line with yellows, we missed a penalty.
Today is not the day to say that we have not reached the final third. Slovenia had a one-on-one chance, Diogo Costa phenomenal, but it wasn’t a bad game.
We’ve seen difficult games and we know France are also good defensively, they have great players in attack and we need to defend in a more open game, but I’m very pleased with what we did today.”
Against such a low block, did Portugal have a game that was too predictable? “It was predictable because we didn’t score, if we had scored in the first 20 minutes it wouldn’t have been.
Oblak was excellent, the penalty happens, but we had a lot of chances. You have to accept it, the grass helped them and us defensively.
We’ve seen a lot of games where one team that doesn’t have the ball holds on, then there’s extra time and another accepts defeat and doesn’t focus on penalties, but our goalkeeper saved three. We are very proud.”
Three penalties saved by Diogo Costa, how do you prepare for that? “Diogo Costa is in an incredible moment.
we arrived at the tournament and we talked about it, that his experience against Arsenal was very important and today he followed his heart, he grew a lot and he is a great goalkeeper.
It’s a secret of Portuguese football, I’ve worked with great goalkeepers and he’s at a great level. I think with his level of maturity and his experiences at the club. Now it has an incredible capacity for us.”
It’s a secret of Portuguese football, I’ve worked with great goalkeepers and he’s at a great level. I think with his level of maturity and his experiences at the club. Now it has an incredible capacity for us.”