Find out everything you need to know about Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal’s Round of 16 match against Switzerland being streamed live here.
At Portugal’s pregame news conference at the FIFA World Cup 2022 on Monday, Cristiano Ronaldo was the usual hot topic, but the problems were hardly easy for his seasoned coach to handle. There have been rumours that the star player has agreed to join a Saudi Arabian team. Repercussions of Ronaldo’s poor body language after being replaced last week. Prior to playing Switzerland in the round of 16 on Tuesday, a poll conducted at home indicates that the majority of fans do not want him on the team.
Fernando Santos, the Portugal coach who has been wooing his star player for more than eight years, brushed off two of those topics. Santos responded to a Spanish media rumour that said Ronaldo would leave Manchester United and sign a highly anticipated contract with Saudi club Al Nassr by saying, “I don’t really know about this, to be honest.” “That’s his choice, and he must deal with it.”
However, Ronaldo’s body language after being replaced midway through the second half of Friday’s 2-1 defeat to South Korea prompted Santos to emphasise his leadership. “I did not enjoy it at all. Through an interpreter, Santos expressed his dislike of the sights he had missed during the game. “That was internally fixed; that is all.”
Santos once more asserted his leadership over the Portugal team when questioned if he still trusted his captain. “I choose the captain only after I arrive at the stadium. The coach stated that his lack of knowledge of the lineup was consistent with how he typically interacted with his players.
Santos spoke while seated next to defender Rben Dias, who previously urged the Portuguese media to “promote togetherness” inside the team rather than division. The story around one of the other superstars in Qatar has been less straightforward during a World Cup where Kylian Mbappé is the leading scorer and Lionel Messi has been delighting fans with his goals and dribbles.
Details on livestreaming Portugal vs. Switzerland’s Round of 16 FIFA World Cup 2022 match are provided below.
FIFA World Cup 2022 Round of 16 match between Portugal vs Switzerland Predicted 11
Portugal: Diogo Costa, Joao Cancelo, Pepe, Ruben Dias, Raphael Guerreiro, Bernardo Silva, Ruben Neves, William Carvalho, Bruno Fernandes, Cristiano Ronaldo, Joao Felix
Switzerland: Yann Sommer, Silvan Widmer, Nico Elvedi, Manuel Akanji, Ricardo Rodriguez, Granit Xhaka, Remo Freuler, Xherdan Shaqiri, Djibril Sow, Ruben Vargas, Breel Embolo
