John O’Shea lauds brilliant Manchester United team-mate Ronaldo because of superstar’s ‘outstanding character’
Before Cristiano Ronaldo fever takes hold, one last time, some subplots around this Euros warm-up. Portugal are in the same group as Georgia, whose coachremains as “interim” head coach with an announcement on Kenny’s replacement not due until after the European Championships, seemingly because the association is waiting for Sagnol.
“He’s an amazing footballer,” said O’Shea. “As a team-mate, he was brilliant because of the character he was, the relationship he had with everyone and it was superb to see him develop; the player that arrived and the player who left, you could see the difference, where he was wanting to go and continued to go, he was a very, very special player.”
“Was it bad? It was,” wrote Diogo Cardoso Oliveira in Público of an “uneven” system that saw Croatia repeatedly expose Manchester United full back Diogo Dalot and create “a lot of traffic” in midfield for Bernardo Silva and Bruno Fernandes.The lesson taken from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was that Ronaldo’s ageing limps and refusal to press defenders was stymieing the creativity of Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva.
Three days later Ireland drew at home to Azerbaijan. Nine months on, they lost a routine Nations League tie in Armenia and at home to an understrength Ukraine, two results that ruined any hope of a play-off route to Germany.
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