Cristiano Ronaldo Broke 5 Surprising Records With a Brace Against Hungary at The EURO ⋆ ShootOut Now

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Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brace to hand the defending Champions their first win of the tournament.

Portugal won their first fixture of the UERO 2021 tournament, thanks to late goals from Raphael Guerreiro and a brace from Cristiano Ronaldo.

The defending champions found themselves struggling to break through a tough Hungary side, with both Diogo Jota, Bruno Fernandes and Cristiano Ronaldo missing all their targets in the opening 45 minutes.

Despite finding a way to control the game in the opening minutes of the second half, Hungary failed to get that long awaited goal.

Their hope for it ended when a low shot by Guerreiro deflected into the net in the 84th Minute.

Cristiano Ronaldo later finish things off with a brace from an 87th minute penalty and an extra time volley.

Cristiano Ronaldo with the man of the match award — Ronaldo won the man of the match award Vs Hungary

Cristiano Ronaldo would later break 5 surprising records with the brace

With that first goal from Ronaldo, the Portuguese skipper already smashed 2 International records and created 2 for his name.

First Player to score double figures at the EURO finals

With the first goal against Hungary, Cristiano Ronaldo become the first player to score double figures in the competitions history.

The most goals scored in the tournament before were 9 by Michel Platini.

The France International, scored an incredible 9 goals in his EURO finals career and won the tournament in 1984 as the top scorer and best player.

but even with just one goal to make it double figures (10), the former Juventus star never had a chance again as he retired in 1887 with just a year left till the next EURO.

He retired as the tournaments all time top scorer with 9 goals which lead us to the second record Cristiano Ronaldo broke Vs Hungary.

Cristiano Ronaldo breaks Michel Platini’s record to become the All time EURO top scorer

After firing home from the spot against Hungary, Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the all-time top scorer of the competition he won in 2016.

The Former Real Madrid star levelled Michel Platini’s record of 9 goals at the EURO finals in the 2016 EURO’s.

And was just needing a goal to claim the record all to himself.

After scoring Portugal’s second goal against Hungary in the group opener, the Portuguese becomes the all time top scorer of the competition, beating Michel Platini (9) who previously hold the record for 35 years.

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First Portuguese to score 10 or more goals in an International tournament

Cristiano Ronaldo makes himself the all time best Portuguese player after winning the EURO in 2016 and repeating the glory at the Nations League few years later.

The Portugal’s Skipper is the leading active top scorer on both club and International level with 106 International Goals and over 780 career goals.

With his first goal against Hungary, Cristiano Ronaldo become the first Portugal’s player to ever score 10 or more goals in an International tournament history.

First player to score at 5 different EURO

From his recent quote, “I don’t chase records, records chase me”

You can agree with him that he is a records magnet.

After playing at the top of his game for many years, what is left of the Portuguese superstar is a records breaking and Creating machine.

With almost every minute of him on the pitch been capable of bringing in another records to his name.

This was the case with just his first strike against Hungary.

The Bianconeri’s talisman becomes the first ever player to score at 5 different EURO finals, not to forget that he has done this by scoring in 5 consecutive EURO tournaments, which in the later years might be a record of its own.

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First Player to play at 5 different EURO finals

During the press conference a day before Portugal’s opening game.

Cristiano Ronaldo was seen a little bit annoyed of seeing a Coca-Cola bottle in front of him.

The Portugal’s skipper was seen tossing 2 Coke bottles away from the table and replaced them with a water bottle.

Advising people to drink water by lifting the water bottle upwards shortly after.

This behaviour was not shocking by any means from Cristiano Ronaldo as he clearly shows his disdain of the drink company from the past.

He revealed that he hate seeing his son Cristiano Jnr drinking Coke during an award in Dubai.

And the five (5) times Ballon d’Or winner neglected himself from taking Coca-Cola which is parked with grams of sugars.

Looking at his physicality which comes from a strict diet and exercise, you can be sure that he is someone who take care of himself and who is determined to be at top of his performance for years.

Which brings us back to the topic, Cristiano Ronaldo has been at the top of his game, at 32 many players like Ronaldinho, Iniesta, Zidane and many more started to look for other options outside Europe and some retires.

But Cristiano Ronaldo is here smashing records at 36 which is unbelievable.

The Former Manchester United and Real Madrid hero becomes the first player in history of the UEFA EURO to play in 5 different EURO finals.

Not to forget he went on to score 2 goals in his opening match of the tournament and is currently the top scorer of the 2021 tournament.

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Cristiano Ronaldo Broke 5 Surprising Records With a Brace Against Hungary at The EURO