Ramiz Raja tries to decrypt Spain’s show versus Portugal

Ronaldo scored in the 88th minute to save the day for Portugal.

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Spain has been touted as one of the favourites to win the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia and rightly so, bearing in mind the star-studded teams they have put forward. The likes of Diego Costa, David de Gea, Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique make the side look a formidable one. Moreover, they have as many seven players from Real Madrid, which won this year’s Champions League under Zinedine Zidane.

The team crossed swords with Portugal in the first match of the tournament and played their hearts out to eke out a draw by a margin of 3-3. They are currently ranked tenth in the World Rankings compared to Portugal’s fourth. Moreover, they had to counter the legendary Cristiano Ronaldo in order to ensure victory. However, the Portuguese prodigy robbed them off a victory.

Spain grass opportunity

In the 88th minute, just when it seemed that Spain would run away with the contest, Ronaldo churned out a superlative free-kick, which broke the defensive-wall and traced into the goal, breaching de Gea’s gloves. The first-half somewhat belonged to Portugal as a penalty followed by a poor piece of work by the Spanish goalkeeper helped Portugal end the first 45-minutes with 2-1.

However, Costa and Nacho found the goal in the 55th and 58th minute respectively to make Spain the favourites. They didn’t concede a goal for the next half an hour until Ronaldo came and dashed their hopes. Meanwhile, Ramiz Raja, the former Pakistani cricketer, revealed the reasons why they couldn’t manage the victory.

He wrote- “Great football #WorldCupRussia2018 Was rooting for Spain! Think Spain lost the flow when they adopted “pass the ball around”tactics to maintain their lead before Ronaldo struck a massive 3rd goal. What a game though!!”

Here is Ramiz Raja’s post

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