Fans believe they have found the real reason behind Cristiano Ronaldo's surprising assist for Bruno Fernandes in Portugal's 3-0 win over Turkey at EURO 2024.
Portugal just won a convincing 3-0 victory over Turkey in the second match of the EURO 2024 group stage. Bernardo Silva opened the scoring for Portugal at Signal Iduna Park before an unbelievable own goal. doubled their lead before the first half ended.
In the process of searching for his first goal at the tournament, Ronaldo had a golden opportunity to open an account in Germany after facing the Turkish goalkeeper directly. However, instead of finishing the shot himself, he passed to his former MU teammate Fernandes, who then easily put the ball into the empty net.
With this assist, Ronaldo increased his total number of assists at EURO tournaments to 7, surpassing Pavel Poborsky's record.
After the match, some fans on social networks expressed surprise that Ronaldo did not take advantage of the opportunity for himself. However, a theory has emerged. They were observant and noticed that after halftime, Ronaldo changed the green shoes he wore in the first half to a new pair of shoes with the name Matilde printed on them. This is the name of Fernandes' little daughter. It seems like Ronaldo borrowed his teammate's shoes and the above assist was a return gesture.
Although he did not score a goal, Ronaldo still made the press mention his name as he holds a number of records in the tournament. Not only did Ronaldo score the most goals (14 goals) and win the most victories (14 matches) in EURO finals, he is also the only player to participate in 6 different EUROs. EURO 2024 marks 20 years since he participated in Portugal's journey to the final at home in 2004.
Winning the match means that Roberto Martinez and his team are convincingly leading Group F and have definitely won tickets to the knockout round. The Portuguese team will finish the group stage with a clash against Georgia in Cologne on Wednesday.