Read What Ronaldo Said After Losing Against Uruguay

On the other hand, Messi has 0 goals in 8 games from 23 shots in 756 mins. these are unexplainable stats, considering the stature both the players enjoy across the footballing space.

Goals on Saturday – the most goals on a day of World Cup knockout football since 1970, when the two semi-finals produced 11 goals.

“Now it’s not the time to talk about the future”, Ronaldo said. However, it only ended with disappointment as Portugal lost 2-1. “We have to keep our heads high”.

“He felt pain and I don’t know (what the injury is), I haven’t spoken to the medical team”.

Cristhian Stuani came on for Cavani, who was helped off the pitch by Ronaldo.

Ronaldo could not make the difference after Suarez and Cavani combined brilliantly for Uruguay’s seventh-minute opener on Russia’s Black Sea coast.

“The truth is, it was really exciting”, Cavani said. I have no words to describe this. He was helped to the sideline with his arm around Ronaldo’s back.

Uruguay manager Oscar Tabarez expressed his concern over Edinson Cavani’s condition after the forward set up a World Cup quarter-final date with France.

Cristiano Ronaldo says it is “not the time” to discuss his global future after Portugal’s World Cup exit.

With this victory, Uruguay earned a unique distinction of winning four matches in a row in the World Cup since the tournament’s inception in 1930.

Portugal’s 63-year-old coach Santos said his team’s talisman should continue.

Thereafter, Portugal tried extremely hard to score another equaliser to keep themselves in contention for the quarterfinals.

Prior to the World Cup, Ronaldo led Real Madrid to a third-straight Champions League title but he arrived in Russian Federation surrounded by distractions about his club future and a tax fraud accusation back in Madrid.

For the past decade, Portugal have been accused by many pundits and fans of being a one-man side that revolves around Ronaldo. Pepe headed the ball down directly to Uruguay’s Nahitan Nández, who pushed forward and slid a pass over to Cavani at the edge of the penalty area.

Being level lasted only seven minutes. But they stood firm after that and Cavani hit the victor with a curling strike into the far corner with his right foot. Ronaldo started off this year’s tournament with a hat trick against Spain and then added another goal against Morocco.

His first goal on Saturday involved an incredible, cross-field combination with Luis Suarez.

Uruguay chased every ball as if it was their last, with Cavani often dropping back to form a five-man midfield.

“That was an incredible play”, Santos said. “You can’t control that situation”.

Ronaldo was lifted. Portugal grew. The Uruguayans had gone 598 minutes since November 2017 without allowing a goal.

“In the second we had more success, we had two very good chances but we did not achieve it”, he said.