Ronaldo wins again.
Draw with Congo in their first match at the World Cup. In addition to the initial clash in their dream of going to the next round, there was also talk about Cristiano Ronaldo's distance from his teammates. Also, his goal drought in the last ten competitive matches for the national team. Ronaldo chose Uzbekistan, or rather, Portugal, to answer everything. Portugal's lead was given by Ronaldo's goal in the sixth minute of the match. At the same time, CR Seven became the first footballer in history to score goals in six different World Cups.
He surpassed Messi, who has scored in five World Cups. His second goal was a game of wits. Everyone thought that Ronaldo would take a shot on the free-kick received in the seventeenth minute. However, Nuno Mendes fooled everyone with his dummy and scored the second goal in the forty-ninth minute from Bruno Fernandes' pass. With this, CR7 surpassed Eusebio to become the highest scorer in the World Cup for Portugal, with ten goals.
At the age of forty-one years and one hundred and thirty-eight days, he also broke Messi's record as the oldest player in the World Cup by scoring a brace. Portugal scored their fourth goal in the sixty-second minute. Ronaldo took a shot from a corner in the middle of the crowd. It was blocked by Joao Felix's foot and blocked by an Uzbek defender. While trying to block the ball, the team's goalkeeper Abdul Vahid Nematov put it in the net.
Despite having several opportunities to score a hat-trick, Ronaldo could not capitalize on it. However, in the end, super sub Rafael Liao increased Portugal's margin of victory. Along with Ronaldo, the performance of the Portuguese players throughout the match was remarkable. Ronaldo and his team seemed to have responded well to all the controversies and criticisms of the past few days.