Cristiano Ronaldo’s double goal helped Portugal beat Slovakia 3-2 in Group J at home at Dragao (Porto), thereby winning a ticket to Euro 2024.
Euro 2024 qualifying results on the morning of October 14 (Photo: UEFA).
Before the competition in Group J of Euro 2024 qualifying in Porto, Portugal will have a ticket to Euro 2024 if it wins against Slovakia. Therefore, the Euro 2016 champion is determined to complete his goal when playing at home.
Coach Roberto Martinez launched an attack-oriented squad with Cristiano Ronaldo and Goncalo Ramos in attack. With a cast of quality stars, Portugal shows complete superiority over its opponents.
Portugal completely dominated the match against Slovakia (Photo: AP).
Facing an opponent who put all their strength into defense, Portugal completely dominated the game. In the 18th minute, Goncalo Ramos opened the scoring after an assist from Bruno Fernandes.
The more Portugal played, the more excited they became after taking the lead. In the 29th minute, Portugal doubled the gap to 2-0 after Ronaldo successfully scored a penalty.
Leading 2-0, Portugal showed signs of complacency in the second half. Slovakia scored a goal to narrow the gap to 1-2 thanks to Hancko in the 69th minute.
However, just 3 minutes later, Ronaldo scored his own second goal. Joao Cancelo overlapped Fernandes on the right. The Man Utd star passed the ball to the second column for the captain to cushion the goal into an empty net, helping Portugal lead 3-1.
Ronaldo’s double helped Portugal win an early ticket to Euro 2024 (Photo: AP).
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 38 goals in 42 matches this year, not to mention 8 assists for his teammates. CR7 also increased his career record to 857 goals in 1,187 matches
In the 80th minute, Lobotka scored the second goal for Slovakia to shorten the score to 2-3. However, the remaining time was not enough for this team’s attempt to equalize.
Defeating Slovakia 3-2, Portugal won 21 absolute points after 7 matches, 10 points more than third-place team Luxemburg and became the first team to win tickets to Euro 2024. Slovakia is still ranked 2nd with 13 points. and will have to do their best to keep second place and get a ticket to Germany next year.
Portugal: Diogo Costa, Cancelo, Dias, Dalot, Antonio Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Palhinha, Bernardo Silva, Leao, Goncalo Ramos, Ronaldo
Goals: Ramos (18′), Ronaldo (pen 29′, 72′)
Slovakia: Dubravka, Pekarik, Skriniar, Vavro, Hancko, Kucka, Mak, Lobotka, Duda, Schranz, Bozenik
Goals: Hancko (69′), Lobotka (80′)
Euro 2024 qualifying Group J rankings, the top two teams in the group win tickets to Euro 2024 (Photo: LS).
Cristiano Ronaldo scored 2 goals for the Portuguese team against Slovakia in the Euro 2024 qualifiers and raised his achievements to a new level.
“I don’t chase records, they chase me”, Cristiano Ronaldo once said and now this striker scored another double for the Portuguese team, becoming another good reason to understand why CR7 always ranked above almost every player.
With a double in Portugal’s 3-2 victory over Slovakia, Ronaldo not only helped his team officially win tickets to Euro 2024 but also reached the 72-goal mark after celebrating his 30th birthday.
Normally it’s nothing special, but the truth is that with “only” these goals (out of a total of 125 goals for the team), Ronaldo can currently be the top scorer of 192 teams, including you. as large as Germany, France, Italy, England, Spain, and the Netherlands.
In other words, Ronaldo’s 72 international goals after turning 30 are more than any other player of any age for Germany, France, Italy, England, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Croatia, Denmark. Circuit, Uruguay, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, USA, Egypt, Ghana and 176 other teams.
Looking at Ronaldo’s number of goals for the team in each calendar year, it can be seen that in 2023 (not yet finished), he has reached the same level as in 2004, meaning that 19 years later he is still prolific.
Notably, Ronaldo has now scored 100 goals or more in 3 different decades, including 206 goals in the 2000s, 550 goals in the 2010s and 100 goals in the 2020s.
All helped Ronaldo become the first player to win the right to attend 6 Euro tournaments in history.
