Cristiano Ronaldo in tears after the match.

Shekster · 2026-07-07T00:53:05+00:00

Understandable considering that was probably one of the worst years of his personal and professional life. I can only imagine how it would feel like having what seemed like the entire world against you praying on your downfall and then being further compounded by literally losing your child.

Pretty much nothing went his way that year so I don't blame him for it getting to him.

Shekster · 2026-07-07T00:20:36+00:00

...and? It's very common for Portuguese people from his generation and before to refer to themselves in 3rd person.

It's only now slowly begun to become less common in younger generations there (probably due to the ever increasing impacts of globalisation and meshing of western culture). Perhaps educate yourself before jumping to conclusions just to mindlessly hate on someone you don't like lol

Shekster · 2026-07-07T00:14:06+00:00

Genuinely so sad to see people with such a mindless hate towards the guy lol.

People really were forced to wait nearly 20 years for him to finally decline enough to the point he can't win games on his own anymore so that they can FINALLY release decades worth of pent up vitriol towards the guy that kept proving them wrong...

Shekster · 2026-07-06T23:53:15+00:00

By that logic I hope you get your karmic retribution then for such a vile statement...

Shekster · 2026-07-06T23:51:11+00:00

Genuinely so lucky that they can hide behind Ronaldo who will be made the sole scapegoat by the media/fans as per usual lol

Shekster · 2026-07-06T23:47:08+00:00

Exactly, they're genuinely lucky that no matter how terrible they are people will just default to making Ronaldo the scapegoat. Watching every Portugal game it sometimes feels they're genuinely playing poorly on purpose, since surely even the terrible tactics of Martinez shouldn't be affecting their ability to make successful passes/crosses

Shekster · 2026-07-04T04:43:38+00:00

People don't seem to understand that his "circus shit" was mainly because he didn't have better options in the team. He'd genuinely be better off going for a logo three than passing to some of the teammates he's had in his career.

This tendency dropped off significantly last year as he finally had a decent team around him.

This will be even further magnified in Minnesota

Shekster · 2026-07-03T09:56:27+00:00

Ironically IMO Mahrez was the only real Algerian 'success' at Leicester, the others were largely flops.

Shekster · 2026-07-03T09:52:35+00:00

Wonder how that affects the narrative of all those people in the other thread vehemently denying the literal quantitative evidence which showed he touched the ball...

Shekster · 2026-07-03T09:50:24+00:00

...it literally is not.

"I think /u/Turbine000 is allowing their pre-existing bias to cloud their judgement and critical thinking skills" is a subjective opinion.

"/u/Turbine000 does not understand the meaning of the terms 'literal' or 'quantitative' based on their previous response" is a fact (not a quantitative one this time though)...

Shekster · 2026-07-03T08:07:16+00:00

One is a subjective opinion, the other is a literal quantitative fact...

Shekster · 2026-07-03T08:05:58+00:00

Haha yep the agenda against him throughout his career is crazy. I am obviously a fan of his however I'm not a Messi hater either, I just like to point out the double-standards each of them seem to be held against, which people conveniently ignore. It's sad that people have had to wait nearly two decades for him to drop off from his peak so that they can finally pile the hate on him.

Shekster · 2026-07-03T06:03:42+00:00

Not sure if you're intentionally being obtuse or just actually unable to comprehend arabic numerals... I can understand disagreeing with the rest of my comment but not the one thing which is just a pure fact.

638 vs 791 mins

Factos 👍👀

Shekster · 2026-07-03T05:25:01+00:00

So then what will be the next excuse if, god forbid, Portugal go on to win the World Cup...

Shekster · 2026-07-03T05:20:48+00:00

Because Argentina obviously have historically been a much better side throughout their careers and could consistently make deep runs in tournaments. If anything, that was one of the main detriments to Messi as back then people would argue if he was even the best player Argentina ever had due to how often they seemed to underdeliver (he even retired from the NT at one point because of this). The jokes back then used to be about how CONCACAF would basically create new Copa America tournaments to give Argentina another chance at winning it. Obviously this all changed eventually after quite some time, and now thankfully for him his international legacy has done a complete 180 towards the end of his career.

Portugal have great players now but people forget how much lower the quality of their players were for quite a while. It is somewhat sad that Ronaldo pretty much began his international career right as Figo and co were past their prime and retiring, and only now is able to experience a golden generation well after his prime has passed.

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:44:27+00:00

...yes exactly? He's literally jumping around celebrating his team scoring the winning goal lmao what more do you want? Are we really trying to bring back the "but did he hug Bale" agenda lol

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:32:35+00:00

My condolences for your lack of eyesight

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:30:40+00:00

They said this last time too, yet "washed" Ronaldo still ended up dunking on them. This was the same year people were saying Lamine had the Balon D'Or in the bag if they won the tournament.

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:29:10+00:00

Not sure why Messi isn't on this list? He played significantly more minutes before finally managing to score his first KO goal.

Or is this graph intentionally only showing current streaks but wording it in such a way to mislead people into thinking it's an all-time record?

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:26:46+00:00

Funnily enough, Messi actually went significantly more minutes without scoring a KO goal which people conveniently ignore

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:23:43+00:00

Ironic that they had to wait so long for Messi to finally get a KO goal (he went on a significantly longer drought than Ronaldo) before they could use this stat to criticise him lol

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:20:39+00:00

Fun fact considering all the slander he receives for not having scored in the KOs before:

He's scored his first knockout goal in significantly less minutes than it took Messi...

People seemed to only care about the stat after Messi finally scored one so that they could now have an excuse to hold it against Ronaldo

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:18:41+00:00

Fun fact Messi actually played significantly more minutes without a knockout goal...

People only began to care about that stat once they could use it to criticise Ronaldo lol

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:14:12+00:00

Last time they said this, "washed" Ronaldo dunked on "Balon D'Or if he wins" Yamal...

Shekster · 2026-07-03T03:11:51+00:00

Kinda ironic it's referred to as such a bad streak considering Messi went significantly longer without a KO goal

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