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☆タイトル:Portugal as impressive as ever, with or without Cristiano Ronaldo | Football News – Times of India

☆投稿者:Anand A

☆公開日:2020-10-15 12:13:35

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With or without Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal remain one of the most impressive teams in Europe as they showed once again with their 3-0 Nations Leaguewin over Sweden on Wednesday. Sweden have made a habit of knocking teams such as Portugal out of their stride with their aggressive, physical style but the European champions refused to be bullied, even without their talismanic all-time record scorer. The 35-year-old was ruled out of the match on Tuesday after testing positive for COVID-19 and flew back to Italy, where he plays for Juventus, before Wednesdays game to sit out at least 10 days in quarantine. Ronaldo also missed the match at home to Croatia last month due to a toe infection — but Portugal also won that one 4-1. In fact, there have often been murmurs that Portugal look a better, more coherent side without Ronaldo, whose presence can be overbearing for younger players. Two years ago, he sat out of the Nations League qualifying stage altogether to concentrate on his club footballand Portugal cruised through their group without losing. When he returned for the Final Four last year, Portugal won that as well, with Ronaldo scoring a hat-trick in their 3-1 semi-final win over Switzerland. With a seemingly endless production line churning out talented players and a wily, down-to-earth coach in Fernando Santos, Portugal are always going to be a threat. “Portugal have played well (without Ronaldo) plenty of times already,” said Santos who, has lost only three competitive games since taking over six years ago. “We are certainly not better without him, but the team still have the capability, quality and strategy to face any opponents. “On Wednesday, it was Diogo Jotas turn to shine. Selected as Ronaldos replacement, the 23-year-old set up the first goal for Bernardo Silva and scored the other goals himself. But Portugal were impressive all-round. Rui Patricio was unflappable in goal and the central defensive pairing of Pepe and Ruben