Ten years and two months after the triple of Cristiano Ronaldo gave Portugal a 3-2 victory in Armenia in Euro 2016 in qualification, the five-time winner of Ballon d’Or again struck in the match while the Selecao began his qualification campaign in the World Cup by increasing 4-0 in Erevan.
Ronaldo stabbed in the delivery of Chelsea Pedro Neto winger on the right after 21 minutes and added a spectacular second at a distance a minute after half.
The new Al-Nassr teammate, 40 years old, Joao Felix, headed during the 10th minute opening of a crossing by al-Hilal Wideman Joao Cancelo, who made the 3-0 score in the 32nd minute, hammering in a left left foot inside the box.
Cristiano Ronaldo goals against Andorra
Ronaldo decided the result of three of the four previous editions of the match since 2007, scoring the only goal in 2014 and the equalizer in a 1-1 draw 18 years ago.
The captain of Portugal now has 140 international goals and 942 in his career while he is targeting a place at the FIFA World Cup 2026.
In the sixth row of the FIFA ranking, Portugal began as hot favorites and was 99 places above a team of Armenia who had lost its last three home games.
The 3-1 home victory in Portugal in August 1997 is the only one of the six previous meetings between countries to have been settled by more than one objective.
A minute of silence took place before kick -off during the first match of Portugal since the death of their attacker, Diogo Jota, and his brother, Andre Silva, in a car accident in July.
Portugal team vs Armenia
The back of Manchester United, Diogo Dalot, suffered a muscle injury and had its place taken by the Nuno Tavares of Lazio for Portugal, which was without Widemen Nelson Semedo and Rafael Leao.
Portugal continues its qualification campaign in Hungary Tuesday (19:45 BST / 14:45 and / 11:45 pt).
Portugal Start XI: Diogo Costa, Joao Cancelo, Ruben Dias, Goncalo Inacio, Nuno Mendes, Joao Neves, Vitinha, Pedro Neto, Bruno Fernandes, Joao Felix, Cristiano Ronaldo
Is Armenia against Portugal on television? Television channel, online flow online
The kick-off on Saturday was at 5:00 p.m. BST (12:00 p.m. and / 09:00 PT), with live coverage on Amazon Prime Video Pay-Per-View, which billed £ 2.49 for the game.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo’s first Al-Nassr agreement was widely reported worth £ 14.75 mm or 3.4 million pounds sterling per week. His annual salary would be 177 million pounds sterling per year, made up of 62 million pounds sterling for his football salary, supplemented by commercial bonuses, via the Forbes financial website.
Ronaldo would have exceeded $ 1 billion (771 million pounds sterling) in career gains two years before becoming the most prominent footballer in order to move to Saudi Arabia.
The top scorer of all time for Real Madrid has a variety of lucrative transactions, with his recent mentions, including Whoop, the UFL video game and the cryptocurrency exchange.
