🚨Cristiano Ronaldo responds to people telling Roberto Martínez to sub him off after Portugal’s shocking 1-1 draw with DR Congo in their 2026 FIFA World Cup opener:
🗣️ “I’ve heard the noise. I’ve seen people saying I should have been substituted, people saying I shouldn’t be starting, people saying I’m the problem. That’s football. When Portugal wins, we win together. When Portugal doesn’t win, suddenly everybody wants to point at one player. I have lived with that for most of my career, so it doesn’t bother me anymore.
What matters is the team. We didn’t get the result we wanted tonight, and every player on that pitch has to take responsibility for that. Not just me, all of us. I am the captain of this team. My job is not only to score goals. My job is to lead, fight, and help this group stay united when things become difficult.
People are free to have opinions, but opinions do not decide matches. Performances do. I promise you this team will respond. The World Cup is not won in the first game. I have played in enough tournaments to know that. The important thing now is how we react.
I will never stop fighting for Portugal. Not because it is easy, but because representing this country means everything to me. The criticism can continue. The work will continue too.”
{@FabrizioRomano }
- You scored three goals in a World Cup final and lost.
🗣️ Kylian Mbappé: “That’s dangerous (laughs).”
- You won the Golden Boot and didn’t win a major trophy with Real Madrid.
🗣️ Kylian Mbappé: “That’s dangerous (laughs). That’s something we’ll try to change.”
- Does that not give you peace of mind? The feeling that you did everything you could and in the end, it’s simply “it wasn’t because of me.”
🗣️ Kylian Mbappé: “No, it doesn’t give me peace of mind. Because when that happens, you say, I should have scored four goals, not three. I should have scored more. And that hurts much more. But these are life experiences. I will have many opportunities to win trophies again.”
He’s done. If you are in the position entering this game, you start the game on the front foot. Start the game as if you are losing. No back to back wins since May of last year. This relegation club behavior.
@UtdFaithfuls Amorim isn’t out there playing mate. He shouldn’t have needed to show up to that game for us to win. All he needed to do was pick a strong line up which he did and the players do what they are paid to do.