Since leaving Real Madrid and signing for Juventus in 2018, Cristiano’s best result in the Champions League has been a quarter-final in his first Turinese campaign.
Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, forward of the Juventus Turin said goodbye to the Champions League in the round of 16 for the second consecutive season, falling against Porto after the previous year’s debacle against Lyon, and did not score in a European tie for the first time in the last fifteen years.
Since his goodbye to Real Madrid and his signing for Juventus in 2018, the best result of Cristiano in the European Cup it was a quarter-final in his first Turinese campaign, when he fell against him Ajax.
If in previous editions CR7, five times European champion and the competition’s highest historical scorer, had scored seven goals in seven games, being decisive in the eighth of the 2018-2019 season against him Atletico Madrid With a tremendous triplet, this Tuesday the Portuguese had no spaces and could not avoid a new European failure for his team.
Without his goals, the Italian Federico Chiesa scored a spectacular double, which nevertheless ended up being insufficient for Juventus of Andrea Pirlo, even though the Porto play with ten men forty minutes of the second half and thirty of overtime.
It was at that moment that Sergio Oliveira, who had already scored the goal of the momentary 1-0 penalty, converted a direct free kick from 27 meters with a low shot that surprised the Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, with serious responsibility for the barrier, which it opened.
Porto ended up losing 3-1 in Turin on a header from Frenchman Adrien Rabiot, but sealed the ticket to the quarterfinals thanks to more goals scored away from home.
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