Cometh the hour, cometh the man for the big occasion. Just three minutes had elapsed of Portugal’s big Group B opener against Spain when Cristiano Ronaldo made his presence felt.
The Real Madrid man went squirming over clubmate Nacho’s kneecap inside the Spanish area to con himself a penalty, which he duly converted past David De Gea with what experts usually refer to as ‘aplomb’…
Soft as a warm bowl of leite creme. Such is football.
4 – Cristiano Ronaldo is the fourth player to score in four separate World Cup tournaments (also Pelé, Miroslav Klose and Uwe Seeler). Greats. #PORESP #POR #ESP #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/9xi1WDlGYh
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) June 15, 2018
Safe to say, this one is shaping up to be a bit of a ding-dong.