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Cristiano Ronaldo netted a stunning overhead footwear extremity for Portugal successful the Nations League connected Friday. (AP)
Cristiano Ronaldo netted a stunning overhead footwear extremity arsenic helium powered Portugal to a monolithic 5-1 triumph implicit visiting Poland to seal a Nations League quarter-final spot connected Friday.
After a goal-less archetypal half, Rafael Leao broke the deadlock conscionable earlier the hr with a header earlier Ronaldo doubled the pb from the punishment spot successful the 72nd infinitesimal with a assured onslaught down the mediate of the goal. While Bruno Fernandes smashed successful the third, Ronaldo acceptable up a decisive walk for Neto to people wrong the wrong post.
The 39-year-old Ronaldo past capped disconnected a fruitful outing, scoring his 135th planetary goal, the 910th of his career, with a sublime finish. The five-time Ballon d’Or victor made the astir of a dipping transverse from Vitinha earlier beating goalkeeper Marcin Bulka with a close-range overhead kick.
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Portugal, who snapped Poland’s two-year unbeaten location tally erstwhile they won the reverse fixture successful Warsaw 3-1 past month, had occupation taming the visitors successful the archetypal half.
“The archetypal fractional was precise atrocious for what we wanted to do, we mislaid absorption and got frustrated. But the 2nd fractional was the champion I’ve seen,” said Portugal manager Roberto Martinez.
“We’ve changed the mentality and accrued the strength and communal support. We didn’t fto Poland play.”
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Unbeaten Portugal apical the radical with 13 points, six up of Croatia, who mislaid 1-0 distant to a Scotland broadside who are inactive bottommost but present level connected 4 points with third-placed Poland.
Poland were without their all-time apical scorer Robert Lewandowski, who is sidelined with a backmost injury, but were speedy to make information and had 3 attempts connected people earlier the interruption compared to nary by the hosts. The 2019 winners Portugal, who dropped their archetypal points past clip retired erstwhile they were held to a goalless gully successful Scotland connected October 15, secured a 4th successive top-two decorativeness successful the competition.
– With Reuters inputs
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