By Chris Wright
In which, with the clock running down to nothing, Cristiano Ronaldo keeps his ‘one in every hundred’ free-kick success ratio alive by pounding one of his trademark tomahawks into the top-corner from 30 metres rather than into the ribcage of some unlucky sod in the wall…
Considering the time on the clock, you’ll probably be unsurprised to find out that Portugal still lost despite Ronaldo’s late screamer, with goals from Michael Krohn-Deli and Nicklas Bendtner landing the Danes a place at Euro 2012 and nudging Portugal into the play-offs.