After breaking through at Brazilian side Bahia, the 6ft3 forward was snapped up by Portuguese giants Benfica in 2014 and brought to Europe. He was called up to the Brazil squad for the first time later that year as a replacement for Lucas Moura, but did not make an appearance. In his second season in Portugal he fell out of ...
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His side now sit second in the Saudi Pro League title race after they dropped points to Al Feiha, as their title rivals Al-Ittihad secured a 2-1 win against Al-Wehda to go three points clear at the top of the league standings. But it was clear that Ronaldo’s frustrations boiled over at full-time, with Ronaldo angrily gesturing and arguing with ...
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The Azzurri suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to North Macedonia on Thursday night, which saw them miss out on a place in the finals in Qatar this winter – failing to reach the World Cup for a second successive time. Despite dominating most of the match with 32 shots of goal, the hosts could only manage five of them on ...
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The attacking midfielder won the FA Youth Cup on two occasions with the Blues, but only made one first team appearance for the club amid seven loan spells. Brown was once tipped by Jose Mourinho as a certainty to play for England, alongside Dominic Solanke and Lewis Baker, with the former Chelsea boss insisting the media should ‘blame him’ if ...
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Ronaldo converted a penalty for the visitors to put them ahead in the 40th minute. A fantastic attacking display from Al Nassr in the second half ensured their victory as Ronaldo completed his brace in the 66th minute. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner left an Al Adalah defender in the dust before rifling a precise left-foot shot past the keeper. ...
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After breaking through at Brazilian side Bahia, the 6ft3 forward was snapped up by Portuguese giants Benfica in 2014 and brought to Europe. He was called up to the Brazil squad for the first time later that year as a replacement for Lucas Moura, but did not make an appearance. In his second season in Portugal he fell out of ...
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We are lucky enough to be treated to more football now than ever before and over the past few decades we have seen some truly incredible football stats. We have gone back through the years and picked out 11 football stats that you won’t believe are real. 1. Neymar won La Liga Player of the Month before Lionel Messi This ...
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There are eight games remaining in this season’s Saudi Pro League, meaning that both Al-Nassr players stand a chance of clinching the award for top goalscorer. Ronaldo and Talisca are the only two players in the league to have averaged at least one goal per game this season. Ronaldo is currently five goals adrift of the top scorers, but has ...
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Cristiano Ronaldo scores TWICE on his Al-Nassr return through a penalty and a pacey run and finish as Rudi Garcia’s side keep up pursuit of Saudi Pro League leaders Al-Ittihad with thumping 5-0 win over Al-Adalah. Al Nassr XI: Ronaldo, Gustavo, Gonzalez, Talisca, Sultan Al-Ghannam, Ghislain Konan, Sami Al-Najei, Abdullah Alkhaibari, Abdulelah Al-Amri, Abdulrahman Ghareeb, Nawaf Al-Aqidi Subs: Abdullah Madu, ...
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One of the coincidences that Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have in this scoring chart is that they both scored a goal the day Argentina beat Portugal 2-1 in a friendly played on March 9, 2011. The captain of the current world champions has scored the most goals against FIFA’s top-ten teams. He scored 15 goals against Brazil, France, Netherlands, Croatia, ...
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