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The Age-Old Ronaldo Debate

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Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Cristiano Ronaldo's late winner for Portugal and continue to question Roberto Martinez' management of the star forward with the national team. Luis Garcia also joins the show to react to Spain's win over Switzerland. The guys also break down Rodrygo's comments about being upset he was left off the Ball ond'Or list and continue to analyze England's win over Ireland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:05.0

welcome in to the latest edition of the ESPNFC.

0:07.0

We have Craig Burley, Stevie nickel and myself K Murray here in the studio.

0:10.0

We will start by talking about the Nations League where Scotland

0:13.6

took on Portugal and Portugal won this game 2-1.

0:17.4

Christina Ronaldo started on the bench but did come on later on.

0:21.5

Scotland went to head through Scott McTomeray

0:24.0

for in the 54th minute, Bruno Fernandez leveled things out.

0:27.2

And for the 901 time in his career,

0:30.3

Christina Ronaldo scored a goal. It came in the 88 minute, it got the win for

0:35.2

Portugal and it was the first time he'd ever scored against Scotland. And this is

0:40.6

how things are looking. When it comes to most goals in official matches.

0:45.2

Cristiano Ronaldo riding high on 901 goals. Messy on 838 in second place behind him and look at the names on this

0:55.2

this Paler and Mario and Ferrant Pushgas. We have Mark Ogden and Louise Garcia

1:00.7

joining us now to talk more about what we've seen, but I suppose,

1:04.0

Greg, we could say it's 901 reasons for Rinaldo to continue playing for club and

1:08.9

countries. Well, this is a kind of conversation people have down the pub or some bunch of

1:17.4

youtubers who haven't got a clue. Yes he'll get goals. It's the nations that I

1:22.2

don't care how many games Portugal

1:24.7

within the nation's league or Roberto Martinez make substitutions and wins in the

1:28.5

nation leagues. I don't care. It's meaningless, pretty much.

1:32.8

We had this discussion on Thursday.

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