In the early morning of October 13 (Vietnam time), the Portuguese team visited the Polish team in the third match of Group A1 League A of the UEFA Nations League 2024-2025. An interesting confrontation between Robert Lewandowski and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Although playing in Warsaw, the Portuguese team was more like the home team, controlling the ball up to 63%. The two teams entered the match enthusiastically with the goal of finding an early goal, but only Ronaldo came closest to that, when he finished with a crossbar from more than 6m after 10 minutes of play.
The first person to succeed with the opening goal was Bernardo Silva in the 26th minute, after an assist from Bruno Fernandes.
In the 37th minute, Ronaldo was named in the scoreboard, but the big credit belonged to Rafael Leao, with a good dribble but a shot that hit the post bounced out, creating conditions for the 39-year-old veteran to easily score.
In the 78th minute, Piotr Zieliński shortened the score for the home team - when Ronaldo left the field in the 63rd minute, but Jan Bednarek's own goal in the 88th minute sealed a 3-1 victory for Portugal.
Coach Roberto Martinez's team won all 3 matches to firmly hold the top spot.
In second place is Croatia (6 points), who continued to be inspired by Luka Modric - 39 years old and Ronaldo's former teammate at Real Madrid, to come back to beat Scotland 2-1.
The Polish team is ranked 3rd, with 3 points.
For Ronaldo personally, he scored his 906th career goal, also his 132nd goal for the national team.
At international level, the Al Nassr striker scored more goals than his most recent players.
If not counting goals from the 11m mark, Ronaldo still has 112 goals, if not counting goals in friendly matches, he has 110 goals - more than 109 goals by Lionel Messi (Argentina) and 108 goals by Ali Daie (Iran) scored on all fronts.
