Cristiano Ronaldo responded to criticism in style 2026 World Cup. The Portuguese star scored twice in Portugal’s 5-0 rout of Uzbekistan and, at the end of the match, he opened up about the difficult week he had faced.
“Whoever works, God helps. I knew that my teammates would help too”, declared the Portugal number seven. “It was a difficult week, it felt like I was already retired from football. But I always believe. It was difficult, I confess, but we’re back.”
The striker expressed his happiness with the result and emphasized the team’s work. “Very happy, but the most important thing is the work the team did, the confidence we had. We took a lot of beatings during the week (for the draw in the debut), we knew it was going to happen, but we worked well and improved a lot”, he added.
Historical record and focus on classification
In addition to the victory and the goals, he broke another record in his brilliant career. He became the first player in history to score in six consecutive World Cups.
Despite the personal milestone, CR7 highlighted that the main objective is the team’s performance. “Talking about myself, it’s always nice to beat a record, but the objective is to be able to help the team and, in this part, it was to get through the knockout stages (groups), with four points I think we’ve already passed,” he said.
Group K situation
With the victory, they took the provisional lead in Group K, gaining four points. The team can still take the lead if they beat Congo in a match scheduled for 11pm (Brasília time) this Tuesday.
The two teams competing for the first place in the group will face each other in the last round, next Saturday (27), at 8:30 pm (Brasília time), in a direct confrontation for classification.
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