Rome, Italy.- Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, a striker for Juventus Turin, said goodbye to the Champions League in the round eight for the second consecutive season, falling to Porto after the debacle of the previous course against Lyon, and did not score in a European qualifier for the first time in the last fifteen years. Since his farewell to Real Madrid and his signing for Juventus in 2018, Cristiano’s best Result in the Champions League has been a quarter-final in his first Turin campaign, when he fell to Ajax.
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If in the previous editions CR7, five-time Champions League champion and all-time top scorer of the competition, he had scored seven goals in seven matches, being decisive in the eighth edition of the 2018-2019 academic year against Atletico Madrid with a tremendous treator, on Tuesday the Portuguese had no spaces and could not avoid a new European failure of his team.
Without his goals, Italian Federico Chiesa scored a spectacular double, which however ended up being insufficient for Andrea Pirlo’s Juventus, despite Porto playing with ten men forty minutes from the second half and thirty minutes from overtime. It was at that time that Sergio Oliveira, who had already scored the goal of the momentary 1-0 penalty, transformed a direct foul from the 27 meters with a level shot that surprised the Polish goal Wojciech Szczesny, with grave responsibility for the barrier, which opened.
Porto ended up losing 3–2 in Turin to a head goal by Frenchman Adrien Rabiot, but sealed the ticket for the quarters thanks to the most goals scored away from home. Read more: Champions League: Surprise! Porto eliminated Juventus in extra timeTras being eliminated in the eighth round by Porto, Cristiano Ronaldo was left with four goals scored with Juventus in this edition of the Champions League, in addition to he gave two passes for goal.
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