Nations League: Ronaldo's Portugal corrects Switzerland, Spain held in check

They had surprised their world and released the reigning French world champions at Euro 2021 last summer.

This Sunday evening, it was a Swiss team with very different intentions that took to the water in Lisbon, against Portugal.

Murat Yakin's men were corrected by Cristiano Ronaldo's band (4-0), in the poster for this Sunday evening in the League of Nations.

What you must remember

The match could have started very well for the Swiss, but the opener was denied to Benfica Swiss striker Haris Seferovic, who was playing almost at home on Sunday evening.

The Lusitanians did not have much doubt in the end: from the quarter of an hour of play, William Carvalho resumed in fox from the surfaces a low free kick from Ronaldo diverted by Kobel (1-0, 15th).

Dominating, the Portuguese followed quickly and created a lot of chances, led by their number 7, who scored twice before the break, first by concluding a good counter-attack, alone at the penalty spot (2-0, 35th ), then pushing into the back of the net a strike from Jota deflected by Kobel (2-0, 39th).

The double for Cristiano Ronaldo!

The Portuguese scored in the empty goal, it's a Portuguese ride

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Never worried, the Portuguese, with Nuno Mendes holder on the left side of the defense at kick-off, will on the contrary push to increase the score.

Shortly after the hour mark, Cancelo is launched deep on the right side and erases Kobel, who came out far from his goals, from a large bridge before concluding (4-0, 68th).

At the end of the match, Nuno Mendes thinks of obtaining a penalty and Ronaldo an opportunity to score a hat-trick, but the fault is finally judged at the entrance to the surface and Ronaldo's free kick, although perfectly struck, diverted by Kobel .

The player: Ronaldo at home

In the José-Alvalade stadium of Sporting Lisbon, his training club, under the eyes of his family and in particular his mother, visibly very moved at each goal of the son, Cristiano Ronaldo has again produced a performance worthy of the greatest in the jersey from Portugal.

A double that would have deserved to be transformed into a hat-trick, with in particular two very well kicked free kicks, the first having given rise to the opener, the second very nicely diverted by Kobel.

Chance or wink of fate, this total performance of Ronaldo arrives the same evening when his greatest rival, Leo Messi, illustrated himself with a quintuple in a friendly with Argentina.

The answer of the shepherd to the shepherdess, we will say.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice this Sunday in Lisbon, against Switzerland.

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Spain in extremis in the Czech Republic

In the other League A match of this League of Nations, Spain has long believed that it would leave defeated in Prague, where it faced the Czech Republic.

The locals very quickly opened the scoring by Pešek (1-0, 4th), and it was not until the added time of the first period to see the young Gavi equalize (1-1, 45th + 3).

Same pattern in the second half: led after a goal signed Kuchta (2-1, 66th), La Roja was saved at the very end of the match by its central defender Iñigo Martinez (2-2, 90th).

Note that in the beautiful League B poster, Norway beat Sweden thanks to a double from the inevitable Erling Haaland.