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Cristiano Ronaldo has been classed arsenic nan astir wasteful finisher astatine Euro 2024 based connected xG, aft again failing to find nan backmost of nan nett for Portugal.
The legendary guardant saw his punishment saved successful extra-time of Portugal's last-16 conflict pinch Slovenia, arsenic he went a 4th crippled astatine nan tourney without uncovering nan backmost of nan net.
Ronaldo was near successful tears aft his miss, though he managed to get immoderate shape of redemption, erstwhile he converted his spot-kick during their punishment shootout victory.
Across nan 4 games, Ronaldo has attempted 20 shots without scoring, pinch only 4 players taking much efforts connected extremity without uncovering nan backmost of nan nett astatine a azygous European Championship tourney since 1980.
Sofascore person revealed that Cristiano Ronaldo is nan biggest xG underperformer astatine nan tourney pinch -2.75.
Sofascore person revealed Cristiano Ronaldo to beryllium nan biggest xG underperformer astatine Euro 2024
Ronaldo has grounded to people pinch 20 shots astatine nan Euros, and he was near successful tears during extra-time of Portugal's triumph complete Slovenia aft he grounded to hit Jan Oblak pinch his spot-kick
Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe rank arsenic 2 of nan biggest 5 underperformers
Arsenal's Kai Havertz (left) and Chelsea's Romelu Lukaku (right) information retired nan apical five
The apical 5 besides features a brace of French stars and a duo who are contracted to Premier League clubs.
Antoine Griezmann ranks 2nd successful nan database astatine -1.92, while his superstar team-mate Kylian Mbappe is successful 5th pinch -1.54.
Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku - who had 3 goals disallowed successful his opening 2 games astatine nan tourney - yet grounded to people and has an xG of -1.70.
Arsenal's Kai Havertz has 2 goals astatine nan tournament, yet still ranks 4th successful nan database pinch -1.60.
Spain and Barcelona's 16-year-old teen Lamine Yamal, has been a prima for Spain astatine this tourney and provided 2 assists, but he has grounded to people and is among nan apical 10 biggest underperformers successful position of goals pinch an xG of -1.48.
The remainder of nan apical 10 is made up of Serbia's Aleksandar Mitrovic (-1.17), Croatia's Bruno Petkovic (-1.08), Spanish midfielder Pedri (-1.06) and Turkey's Orkun Kokcu (-0.96).
Ronaldo looked for illustration a man connected nan ngo during Portugal's last-16 conflict pinch Slovenia, aft failing to find nan backmost of nan nett astatine nan group stage.
He grounded to people pinch a number of free-kicks during nan game, and besides had a changeable saved by Jan Oblak.
Ronaldo would get immoderate measurement of redemption by scoring successful nan punishment shootout
Ronaldo had his extra-time punishment saved by Oblak successful other clip connected Monday night
His 69-year-old mother, Dolores Aveiro (top) was seen crying successful nan stands aft Ronaldo's miss
This sparked an affectional guidance from Ronaldo arsenic he burst into tears while Roberto Martinez gave nan squad a pep talk
At half-time of extra-time, footage showed Ronaldo seeing his mother crying successful nan stands, which led to him besides being successful floods of tears as Roberto Martinez gave his players a pep talk during nan interval.
Ronaldo was consoled by seven of his team-mates, including punishment shootout leader Diogo Costa, Bernardo Silva and Diogo Jota - who each gave him words of encouragement arsenic nan crippled went into nan second-half of extra-time.
And contempt him making amends for his punishment miss by scoring successful nan shootout, Portuguese media person questioned whether he should beryllium dropped from nan starting XI up of their quarter-final conflict pinch France connected Friday.
Diogo Jota was among nan Portugal players seen trying to console nan legendary forward
Ronaldo (pictured pinch Pepe aft nan win) will dream to extremity his drought successful beforehand of extremity successful nan quarter-finals against France
One Portuguese publication, Publico, gave him a sadistic 4/10 rating as they questioned his world future.
Meanwhile, the BBC were labelled a 'disgrace' by ex-England skipper John Terry, aft they utilized a mocking caption to picture Ronaldo's punishment miss, which said: 'Misstiano Penaldo.
Ronaldo, who appeared to apologise to nan Portugal fans astatine nan Frankfurt Arena aft their shootout win, wrote connected Instagram: 'Inexplicable moments. Let's springiness it our all. Thank you.'
