Mesut Ozil stick up for Cristiano Ronaldo who has been hit with bad news lately. He considered Ronaldo’s critics to only ride the big name CR7.
Ronaldo has been in a bad light lately. He caused a stir when he complained about his bad situation at Manchester United in an exclusive interview with Piers Morgan.
After the controversy of this interview, Ronaldo and Manchester United have officially ended up together. The interview was also said to have disturbed the harmony of the Portuguese national team ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
In the shadow of that, Ronaldo received excessive attention at the 2022 World Cup. The bad impression was even closer for CR7 because he did not perform well with Selacao das Quinas. He scored only one goal from a penalty.
This condition has been exacerbated by several dramas he has made. Ronaldo is said to have been irritable when he was substituted against South Korea. Portugal coach, Fernando Santos then put him on the bench in the match against Switzerland.
Ronaldo’s replacement, Goncalo Ramos, looked dazzling in that match, netting a hat-trick and an assist. Portugal looked liquid without Ronaldo in that game and won 6-1 over Switzerland. The presumption that Ronaldo is burnt out is increasingly heightened by this result.
In the midst of this bad opinion that has approached Ronaldo, Mesut Oezil tried to defend his former colleague at Real Madrid through uploads to his Instagram account. Oezil said those who criticized Ronaldo were just “hitchhiking” by taking advantage of the Madeiran-born man’s big name.
Ozil also made sense of Ronaldo’s decline in performance considering he is far from the golden age of a footballer. He stressed that he deserves more respect given his outstanding achievements than he did in the past.
“I really don’t understand where the constant media negativity about Cristiano is coming from… The media is just trying to get clicks, and careerless pundits just want to get the attention of a big name and try to make it look bad,” he said. written Ozil.
“He’s turning 38 shortly, so what’s the surprise he doesn’t score 50 goals in a season anymore? Any football fan out there would love to see him play world-class football for 20 years – I don’t think anyone from Will’s new generation will be able to match his numbers again and he will forever be at his same level.
“Everyone should have more respect for one of the greatest athletes in sports history…”, he continued.
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