Serbia beat Portugal – Cristiano Ronaldo in Tears: Nothing is going right for Crisitano Ronaldo now a days. The Euro 2016 winners were stunned by Serbia in Lisbon as the visitors came back from behind to win 2-1 to finish top of Group A and seal their place in Qatar next year. The defeat left Portugal’s World Cup Qualification hopes in tatters & Cristiano Ronaldo in tears – Check out
FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Cristiano Ronaldo left in TEARS as Serbia stuns Portugal, World Cup qualification in jeopardy
Portugal missed out on automatic qualification for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in dramatic circumstances. Serbia scored a late winner to prevail 2-1 and book their place in Qatar instead.
Ronaldo could not hold back his tears after the unexpected defeat.
Going into the game, Portugal knew that if they avoided defeat then they would qualify. 36 year old Manchester United star was reduced to tears after the full-time whistle with his chances of playing in a fifth World Cup now in major jeopardy.
SCENES! 🤯
Aleksandar Mitrović scored an injury-time winner as Serbia leapfrogged Portugal to seal their place at the 2022 World Cup! 🇷🇸🔥 pic.twitter.com/EOod5NCYAR
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) November 14, 2021
Serbia beat Portugal – Cristiano Ronaldo in Tears: Serbia stuns Portugal by scoring in the last minute
Late Drama at FIFA World Cup Qualifier between PORTUGAL VS Serbia
- 2nd Minute: Portugal got off to the perfect start at the Estadio da Luz after Renato Sanches broke the deadlock in the second minute.
- 45th Minute: But Serbia equalised just after the half-hour mark through Dusan Tadic after his deflected effort squirmed through the hands of Rui Patricio.
- 90th Minute: And Mitrovic sparked wild scenes in the 90th minute after he nodded home Tadic’s corner in what was his 44th goal on the international stage.
“We just defended in the second half. Credit to Serbia, they played very well but we had the capacity to be on top.
“Everyone in the dressing room is disappointed but we have to look ahead to the playoffs now because we are more than good enough to be in the World Cup.
“You can’t win all the time. Difficulties are part of life and this feeling should give us more strength.”
FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Cristiano Ronaldo left in TEARS as Serbia stuns Portugal, World Cup 2022 spot in jeopardy
How Portugal can still Qualify for WORLD CUP 2022? The result is Portugal’s first loss of their World Cup qualifying campaign, while Serbia failed to taste defeat in their eight fixtures.
Portugal still have an opportunity to qualify – but for that to happen they will now have to win in their play-off tie in March to book their place in next year’s global tournament.
As it stands, only Sweden, Scotland, Russia and North Macedonia have secured a play-off spot alongside Portugal.
Will Cristiano Ronaldo take play World Cup in Qatar? Ronaldo will be 37 by the time the tournament starts next year, previously said he expects Qatar to be his final appearance at the competition – even though he wants to continue playing into his 40s.
He remarked in 2016: “I expect Qatar could be my final World Cup.
“I often go on holidays there, to Qatar as well as Dubai. I am happy because for sure it will be [my] last international tournament.”
But for now fans are not too amused with the performance of Ronaldo.
Portuguese journalist Jose Morgado described the performance as ‘pathetic’.
Another wrote: ‘HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA WHERE IS RONALDO WHEN NEEDED THE MOST???’.
FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Cristiano Ronaldo left in TEARS as Serbia stuns Portugal, World Cup 2022 spot in jeopardy
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