Straight ball sight|Peers persuade Ronaldo: Don't forget it, Portugal may really not need you

Yingxian said

2024-07-02 14:26Former reporter of the International Department of Sports Weekly and senior sports creator

I rarely write about Cristiano Ronaldo, so let's say a few words today.

Actually, I didn't mean to "hide" him, but because he was away from European football after I returned to writing football. In this competition, while he has repeatedly created glorious records, he is also creating "black history" - the competition has accumulated 8 games and 37 shots without a goal; 20 shots without scoring in this tournament; The most direct free-kicks in the history of the European Championship (34, well ahead of second-placed Zinedine Zidane's 15) are still goalless.

So it can't be said that I am "avoiding him", but it is really ...... That's a bad grade.

Let's use a few pictures to summarize his main performance in today's game -

4 missed free kicks, missed a penalty in overtime, and then cried on the spot (this is the most intolerable point for me), but he dared to be the first to play in the penalty shootout, and led his teammates to win the most disparity in the history of penalty shootouts in the World Series (the two sides made a total of 6 free throws to win, and the fastest record in theory was born). Immediately, Portugal reached the quarterfinals of the European Championship eight times, the most of any team in history.

So how do you evaluate Ronaldo's performance? I feel like there are only four words: he is who he is.

For more than 20 years – since his move to Manchester United in the summer of 2003 – Cristiano Ronaldo has been a remarkable presence in the world of football. I never liked him, but I had a lot of respect for his persistence and seriousness, and I was also amazed by his ups and downs.

In fact, judging from today's game, I feel that Ronaldo's symbolism to the Portuguese team can no longer be summed up by "spiritual leader" - if the spiritual leader is forgivable to kick the water bottle with the captain's armband to vent his emotions, then missing the penalty and openly crying with 15 minutes of extra time remaining, so that the whole team is surrounded by one person to comfort the emotions, it has become an out-and-out trouble for his teammates.

In the adult world, I am most afraid of causing trouble to others.

But fortunately, I quickly found that the Portuguese team in the last 15 minutes was still on the line, attacking and defending as usual - Diogo Costa's godlike performance in the penalty shootout showed that Ronaldo's tears did not have any negative impact on them at all - it seems that the post-00s do not have all the emotions and joys that only our older people have, they just focus on the present and the present.

And the biggest focus is to save the opponent's shot; The biggest thing is to win the game, and you can't be cowardly. Nothing more.

So considering that Slovenia played the most intensity and willpower in the last eight, I am certainly happy with the performance of the Portuguese team today, but I am hardly satisfied with Ronaldo - although he lasted 120 minutes, at the age of 39, he still provided no less running, confrontation and response than any normal striker. His performance in this tournament is enough to make people imagine that he can be seen in the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico two years later, and much better than the Qatar World Cup two years ago.

It's just that Portugal can't afford to lose, and the record of 20 shots and 0 goals should be stopped.

If in the past, we still had some kind of "kind" thoughts about the relationship between Ronaldo and the Portuguese team, thinking that they were "mutually successful", then at present, for the new Portuguese players who have fully risen in the post-00 generation, they no longer need Ronaldo's support at the technical and tactical level - it takes courage to say this, but I still said it ^_^

Of course I know what Cristiano Ronaldo means to this team and what it means to this country. However, like Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe was also a victim of a long gamble – he was substituted early after almost giving away a one-on-one goal. We don't have to put the label of "old" on them, but it does come to the conclusion that Portugal today is likely to lose because of them – in certain moments and in certain moments.

I think that under the huge "public expectation", probably Ronaldo is the eternal first topic of the Portuguese team in this tournament - he doesn't want to "rely on his teammates to lie down on the crown" anymore, and the importance of this issue may even overpower Portugal's championship itself. But before this "public expectation", there is really another truth in front of Martinez and Ronaldo: the interests of the team are above all else.

Football itself doesn't speak, but a thousand words have been interpreted. I actually have a huge hope that Ronaldo will succeed – from the Czech Republic, to Turkey, to Georgia, and now to Slovenia, I feel like I'm one of his many staunch supporters.

But after staying up late to make up for the awakening, I still feel like saying to my peer Ronaldo: Otherwise, let's forget it - it's not that there is no condition. "Following" this team to succeed together, in fact, no matter how unsatisfactory, is better than "leading" it to fail together. Especially, you really hate failure.

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