Fabio Capello charged hard against Cristiano Ronaldo after the elimination of Juventus in the Champions League against Porto. The Italian coach partly blamed the Portuguese for the premature goodbye of his team, especially for the free-kick goal scored by Sergio Oliveira in the final stretch of the meeting. According to the coach, the Juve star was afraid of hitting the ball and was the cause of the ball ending up inside the goal.
“The first goal in the first game is a gift, there is a great oversight in the second … Certain goals cannot be conceded. Tonight's penalty is another gift. Demiral is too naive, it is a very serious mistake. But this is already the worst. Cristiano Ronaldo jumping and spinning on the barrier. Whoever is on the barrier cannot be afraid of being hit. It is an unforgivable mistake that has no excuses“Capello sentenced.
In addition, he defended the figure of Allegri, in the face of all the criticism he received in his day: “The much-maligned Allegri reached two Champions League finals, won championships … What he did never stood out. It was said that Juve needed a different football. These things must be said. When you try to do something different, you get into things that are not always pleasant and positive. “
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Alessandro Del Piero, for his part, criticized the ex-Madridista's performance, although he does not blame him for the failure of Bianconero: “Cristiano has responsibilities, of course. He didn't have many chances, but he wasted that header that we used to always take advantage of. However, it cannot be solely your fault. Juve played for more than an hour 11 against 10. “
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The journalist Paolo Condó, on the same set, was blunt about the Portuguese: “Cristiano was signed to compete at the highest level in the Champions League. In the first two seasons the rest of the team collapsed, this time he too. Before the game I asked Paratici about his renewal, I think now he would give me a negative answer “.
For the first time in 15 years
Cristiano said goodbye to the Champions League in the round of 16 for the second consecutive season, losing to 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, Cristiano's best result in the European Cup has been a quarter-final in his first Turinese campaign, when he fell against 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 Atlético Madrid with a tremendous treble, this Tuesday Luso did not have spaces and could not avoid a new European failure of his team.