Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski They faced off this Saturday for the ninth time in their respective careers and the current player of Al-Nassr of Saudi Arabia He won the battle of legends against the Barcelona player and is currently the ‘top scorer’ of the League (10 goals so far for the Polish striker, including 2 in the Champions League). CR7, 11 this season in all competitions, one less than Lewandowski.
CR7 scored in the 37th minute against Poland Portugal’s second goal, the 906th goal in an official match of the former Madrid player’s career. He did so taking advantage of a rebound after his teammate Rafael Leao shoot the stick. before CR7 He also threw a ball into the wood. The Portuguese won 1-3 and are leaders of group 1 of League A of the Champions League, with 3 points over Croatia. Portugal has 9, Croatia 6, Poland 3 and Scotland none.
The captain of Portugal and the captain of Poland They are not, face to face, on equal terms at the level of selection, because of the distance that exists between one team and another. SA Lewandowski He had to live a difficult night, hardly receiving the right balls. He played more in the second half, less in the first.
The only chance for Barcelona star against Portugal came in the 55th minute, with a header, but Lewandowski He cannot take advantage of it. In the 63rd minute he retired Cristiano Ronaldo. Lewandowski He played in the 90’s. It gave the impression, from his actions, that the Blaugrana had asked his teammates in the moments of the match not to leave too much space between the lines and not to leave him isolated. At the end of the meeting, the Polish star congratulated João Felixreplace this Saturday with Portugal and who is with him Barcelona.
Looking back at those 9 confrontations Cristiano Ronaldo won 5, Lewandowski 2 and there are 2 correlations. And 2 matches they will never forget: one in the 2012-13 Champions League semi-finals, where in the first leg Lewandowski scored for Borussia Dortmund 4 goals against Cristiano Ronaldo’s Real Madridwhich got a short-lived 1-1. After a 4-1 win at Signal Iduna Park, CR7 and his teammates won the second leg 2-0, but qualified for the final on Dortmund (he lost it Bavaria).
It was the second time they met at the national team level. At first, Portugal reached the semifinals of Euro 2016 (which they won) after being eliminated in the quarterfinals on penalties Portugal.
Source: La Verdad
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