Euro 2016: England To Play Iceland In Last 16

Iceland players celebrate a goal by Iceland’s Arnor Ingvi Traustason during the Euro 2016 Group F soccer match between Iceland and Austria at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, France, Wednesday, June 22, 2016. We failed to do that but we met the bottom line because we wanted to qualify.

Portugal have a better goal difference (level compared to minus two) than Albania, who already sat behind Slovakia, Northern Ireland and Turkey in the rankings of third-placed teams.

And for a flawless snapshot of how frustrating, yet fantastic, Ronaldo can be on any given day, his showing against Hungary in Portugal’s final Group F tie is the ideal crystallisation of his tendencies.

The 31-year-old opened his account in style with a deft backheel on 50 minutes, then netted with a powerful header 12 minutes later as he twice equalised at the Stade de Lyon. “Not any team can beat Spain [as Croatia did], we know that we have our weapons, we have our quality and let’s play eye-to-eye”.

However, Ronaldo was the provider as he threaded a delightful diagonal throughball for Nani, who finished expertly low and hard to make the score 1-1 in the 42nd minute.

Portugal were in desperate trouble when Balasz Dzsudzsak put Hungary 2-1 in front yet still enjoyed the luxury of wasting three free kicks 30 metres from goal, all taken by Ronaldo.

Hungary won the group with five points, followed by Iceland in second with the same number of points.

France’s Lilian Thurman and the Netherlands’ Edwin van der Sar previously held the appearance record with 16, but Ronaldo passed them by playing in Portugal’s three group-stage games at Euro 2016.

The 21-second clip shows Ronaldo, surrounded by security guards, strolling by a lake with his team-mates.

Cristiano Ronaldo says breaking records comes naturally to him after he became the first player to score in four separate European Championships to rescue Portugal from a humiliating Euro 2016 exit.

“He is a world class player”.

“In the first half, we didn’t play well and like in the two games before, we committed too many errors”, said Austria coach Marcel Koller.

Cristiano Ronaldo has praised the resilience of his Portugal team after they scraped into the last-16 by the skin of their teeth – but his love/hate relationship with the media continues.

Hungary took the lead for the third time as Dzsudzsak seized a rebound in his stride on the edge of the area and fired a speculative shot which sailed past Patricio, again taking a deflection along the way. They attacked, we attacked.