The ESPN FC crew discuss Portugal’s 5-0 cleans sheet victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina in the UEFA Euro qualifiers and what role Cristiano Ronaldo should play for Portugal at this stage in his career.
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He is composed. he's very unlikely to botch a penalty. the issue is if you can trust him to take himself out. Only the player knows if they are hurt or don't have it. you're guessing based upon his age because it's an anomaly. you're saying "he's old' he's not you. you're going by statistics of age and other players. you have to rely on instinct or actual lab numbers in comparison to other players. he's been goody 2 shoes his whole life. you're like little kids imagining themselves as professional. a 30 year old is a kid to a 39 year old. you know how kids say they're going to be something and they have no clue what it feels like. it's like wanting go to juliard and become piano virtuouso. you're not going to practice 6 hours a day for 20 years. then people get more and more jealous as you get older because they're approaching death. they can't say that they'll be able to catch up. you have to be close to being a perfect 2 shoes for 38 years.
i think it gets worse as you get older because then you get more and more generations of drunks that hate you. when he was a kid the parents of the people that are looking to start over him where trying to start over him. that's crazy. he competed with players haalands father's age for starting spots, and now competing against his kid. that's crazy. that's like if muhommed ali beat up your dad and then beat up you. people already hate you if you do well or better than them at something the first time.
Why do Portugal always get Luxembourg in their qualifying group?😂😂😂
How can you still hate on Ronaldo? Ale Moreno wasn’t even scoring in MLS. The disrespect they show to a guy who will go on to score 1000 goals is just incredible
That bald head no one is so against ronaldo like his wife cheated on him because of ronaldo never from heart so him praise ronaldo
Hypocrites … They can't have the same argument for Messi scoring against lowly MLS teams.
yet messi is still good enough to start
This bald head is the biggest hatter of cr7
I hate seeing this guy
What's this bald S. American saying. Don't hate someone bringing results because you couldn't do that in your career
those two idiots they dont know what they are talking !! Of course this is espn only idiots there!!
Isn’t ridicules when I guy who scored 52 goal in 11 seasons agains MLS again MLS teams saying a player who scored 40 this year so should not start !!!
Smfh hahahahahaha
Bruh i cant with these guys. “Im not starting him”. He literally is the top scorer in the euro qualification. What more can the man do? You are talking like he hasn’t scored in 7 games. No one I scoring like him. No one. Not only in Portugal.
Ronaldo doing Ronaldo things and espn doing espn things
The harder some pundits on ESPN try the talk down Ronaldo, the more embarrassing they look. Time to move on from 2022 Ronaldo and talk based on current happenings, please 🙂 Go and study the growth of the Portuguese team consistently before and after Ronaldo for the last 40 years.
Most goals in 2023 and espn still hate on him.
Why espn hate Ronaldo so much 🤔🤔 tfook is wrong with them..
Don't score …a problem, score against who's in your group…a problem
Most goals in the calendar year so far…a problem 🤷🏾♂️ anymore
These two should be sacked please im tired of hearing this biased takes against Ronaldo
The commentary from the guy on greishly blue suite is captivating.
Cristiano Ronaldo Is The Leader Of The Portuguese Team And He Will Start At The Euros
Y’all talk as if you got a say in this 😂😂😂
The clowns at ESPN that don't know anything about football, always hating Ronaldo. How did they even get this job?
5:01 I respectfully disagree, in the fact that Shaka said Ronaldo is past his best. Now as a winger for sure he is past his best but as an out and out striker he is still one of the best because now he has all the youngsters that do the running for him and he still has the pace to run that 30 or 40 metres to goal and ofcourse we all know if he gets the ball in the box its ending up in the back of the net. So the manger just needs to know how to use him.
The haters pundit are all out again. They made the former coach drop him, now CR7 is scoring, they are not happy he may succeed, now they have started discussing if the coach should include him, but they will not say that, so they say should Ronaldo be the one leading his team. And so, they are asking should he be started because if he is started, how do you take him out – which is their plan, to take him out. Silly haters.
Ali is a hypocrite!!!!!!!!
He Sure doesn’t say the same about Messi 👀
Ali is a terrible pundit and would be terrible coach.
Why would you drop your most prolific goal scorer?
Messi wasn’t the best player at the World Cup.
6 goals 5 of which were penalties.
He wasn’t even the best player in his team but the narrative was always going make him the best.
Even so Messi only gets dropped if he’s hurt or if he chooses not to play.
Why would Roberto Martinez do any less with CR7.
Ali is a hypocrite!!!
They have been hating on my boy for the last 15 years atleast. CR7 starts for any team, period.
I will come back to this video after the euro you two no buddies will talk at stuff but keep that energy
8 wins in 8 games and he's one of the top scorers for the euro qualifiers, this is not a question.
Half hair guy is not a fan of Ronaldo. I would start him.
Mario is the only one who shows respect. He was spot on about how they criticize him. Ronaldo should be starting.
The only reason Portugal didn’t reach the World Cup final is because of Pepe. You can’t have a 38 year old as a primary defender on a World Cup squad.
Cristiano Ronaldo is possible #1 or #2 of ALL TIME even past his best is still Top 10 center striker ATM
Mario proves once again why he’s the only one in the espn segment who has some common sense
These people they know exactly what ranaldo can do but just because they are against him and Messi fn …they don't want to give credit what he deserves ….as if they are the best players than Ronaldo 😅😅
These hacks are clueless. They benched Ronaldo and lost to Korea then lost to Morrocco. These clowns got their wish and Portugal lost two winnable games. Ronaldo still finishes better than Felix, Leao, Jota and Bernardo, that's a fact and only Bruno finishes at his level but usually with way less chances. These clowns can't stand that Ronaldo is still the best player in the world without fifa/uefa and referees doing everything for him and usually working hard against him.
Ale can score against Luxemborg? The guy has just 52 goals in his career, playing as a forward.
Stop the Ronaldo hate guys.
These guys don't watch the games, or they're just lying for more clout
Ljke im sorry but what? Against Morocco the team only started being cohesive when he came on
When portugal beat Switzerland it was the only time in the tournament that they played with only 1 DM
Ronaldo absolutely tore up the right wing vs Slovakia and he's the top scorer of 2023; no one is there to replace him yet; these guys have no idea what they're sayinf
Underrated player talking about player who is 100 times better then them obviously they are jealous ah…
When Ronaldo doesn't score
ESPN UK panel: I don't understand why this guy won't retire already. He's holding back his team and should just be a sub if not kicked off the team.
Goes off-air
I just hate the guy, that's all.
Jude Bellingham better. Ronaldo at his age couldn't lace his boots.
Ridiculous, not start Ronaldo lol what a joke
The ronaldo hate train is real!
what is this stupid vandetta against Ronaldo. this is when I always realize ESPN is a joke (and I'm a Messi fan). what a joke!
Wow how hard is that group
they forgot argentina plays for messi as well. dybala was sidelined n what did u guys say? nothing. He may be past his prime but he's still one of the very best. portugal need him if they ever want to win not only just euro but also wc26.
Felix Ramos Ronaldo
Bruno Paulinha Bernardo
Cancelo A. Silva Diaz Dalot
Costa
This should be Portugal's lineup
Ronaldo and Ramos actually complement each other and Felix and Cancelo complement each other and so does Bruno and Bernardo
These combinations are proved deadly we want more of that
After playing qualify .. The main tournament is coming .. Let see how it goes …
"It's a group where Ale and I can play and qualify" 🤣🤣
These guys literally won nothing in life
Like Ale never even played in a top tier European team and never won a continental country or club trophy
And Shaka has literally 0 major cups or trophies in his career. He played for England still 0 trophies 🤣
He played with legendary midfielders and forwards they couldn't outscore Ronaldo in Euro qualifiers and tournament and he thinks he can 🤣🤣🤣
Ronaldo haters
ESPN is totally against CR7 I didn’t get why? They always talking good about South American players and British players.