C R Seven made a comeback with a world record, double goals

• March 24, 2023

This is how to make a comeback. Cristiano Ronaldo showed the cynics with a finger in the eye. FIFA World Cup 2022 was criticized for its performance. He is old! On that pretext, the then coach Fernando Santos kept Ronaldo on the reserve bench after the match during the cup war.

The new coach Roberto Martinez already gave a big message by keeping his 'cancelled horse' Ronaldo in the team. And that worked like oxygen.

Portugal won 4-0 against Liechtenstein in the Euro 2024 qualifying match. In that match, 'CR Seven' (CR 7) played the 197th international match of his career. The Portuguese superstar scored a pair of goals. Ronaldo also scored a goal from the penalty in the 51st minute of the match. Then again in the 63rd minute from a free-kick. He set a new record of scoring in 100 international matches. He also holds the record of playing the most international matches.

Portugal was eliminated from the World Cup after losing against Morocco. It was his 196th match. By playing that match, Ronaldo reached Kuwait's substitute Al Mutawa who had played the most matches in the national team's jersey until then. There was doubt about whether he would put on the jersey of Portugal after the failure in the World Cup.

However, 37-year-old Ronaldo changed everything by scoring a pair of goals against Liechtenstein. On the night of the feat, Ronaldo got the ball early in the match. It didn't work though. However, Portugal did not have to wait long. Portugal would have scored in 8 minutes. But the ball flying from the corner was cleared by the goalkeeper of Liechtenstein. But Joao Cancelo put that return ball into the net with a great shot from outside the D-box. In this match, Ronaldo had a chance to score a hat-trick. But he lost that chance. However, he himself missed an easy chance in 22 minutes. Got the ball in a great spot but hit it over the post. In the 27th minute, Portugal failed to take advantage of the opportunity again. And so despite creating one attack after another during the break, Portugal did not score more than one goal.

Portugal did not have to wait long for a goal after the break. Bernardo Silva increased the gap in the 47th minute. After 3 minutes, Portugal got a penalty. The goalkeeper of Liechtenstein could not even try to stop Ronaldo's shot at the spot kick. Ronaldo scored another goal in the 58th minute. But that goal was disallowed for offside. However, the fast-paced Ronaldo could not be contained in the 63rd minute. Portugal gets a free-kick just outside the D-box. He scored his second goal by shaking the net with a bullet speed shot. That was Ronaldo's 120th goal in international football.

Ronaldo made his debut in international football in 2003. With his goal in the World Cup in Qatar, Ronaldo set the precedent of scoring in five consecutive World Cup stages. Portugal lost to Morocco in the quarter finals. After that, Ronaldo joined Saudi club Al Nasser. CR Seven scored 9 goals in 10 matches for Al Nasser.

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