Cristiano Ronaldo turned on the style to score a hattrick in Portugal’s 5-1 win against Faroe Islands, crossing Pele for number of international goals scored.
Cristiano Ronaldo gave a glimpse of what Real Madrid have been missing in the starting matches of the season. The Portuguese, who has been handed a 5-match ban on club level, was firing on all cylinders on Thursday. Ronaldo scored a hattrick as Portugal swept aside minnows Faroe Islands by a scoreline of 5-1.
While there were many highlights in the match, Ronaldo’s hattrick stood out as Real madrid fans and fans of the player, in general, hailed his achievements and statistics.
Cristiano Ronaldo overtakes an all-time legend pic.twitter.com/jCOFZmxJvc
— B/R Football (@brfootball) August 31, 2017
Cristiano Ronaldo enters the top five international scorers of all time…? pic.twitter.com/75Ld7j3MSu
— B/R Football (@brfootball) August 31, 2017
Cristiano Ronaldo tonight:
⚽️⚽️⚽️
? 48th Career Hat-trick
?? 5th Hat-trick for Portugal
✅ Overtaken Pelé with International Goals Scored pic.twitter.com/w2s9JFr7f9— SPORF (@Sporf) August 31, 2017
Fans poured out tweets in appreciation of the Portuguese’s talent.
This guy thanking God Ronaldo was born Portuguese pic.twitter.com/Vdcj7RDpvx
— Lucas (@Goalnaldo) August 31, 2017
Ronaldo scores Hat-trick against Faroe Islands:
Madridistas: pic.twitter.com/gO2ajP9UBp
— Johnny (@Acidicjohnny) August 31, 2017
Cristiano Ronaldo has passed Pele for International goals & is 6 away from equalling Puskas’ 84 goals. And people STILL doubt him.
? ? ? pic.twitter.com/ymoTbLMUjc— King Millie ?? (@iKingMillie) September 1, 2017
3 goals and an assist today. 14 goals in 6 games. That’s what us lifelong Ronaldo fans like to call domination.
— Larry Beyince (@DragonflyJonez) August 31, 2017
If silencing haters was an art, Cristiano Ronaldo would be the Picasso of it. pic.twitter.com/W3m554dmvF
— KroosT8 (@KroosT8) August 31, 2017
Cristiano Ronaldo is going to be better than ever this season, he doesn’t know how to score normal goals anymore!! ?????????? pic.twitter.com/11YHGKL4nM
— OMAR ? (@Omar__cr7_) August 31, 2017
There were still some trolls out and about on social media.
Ronaldo has scored against Faroe Islands, once again silencing the critics by proving he can do it against the best of the best.
— FCB Jokes (@BarcaBanterEra) August 31, 2017
Cristiano Ronaldo now has more int’l goals than Pele. Until Pele reveals he scored another secret 400 goals & they were the best goals ever.
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) September 1, 2017
There were words of appreciation for City man Bernardo Silva, who set Ronaldo up for his first goal – an overhead kick. William Carvalho, who also got in on the action, received some praise on Twitter.
Friendly reminder that we paid only £3m more for Bernardo Silva than what Liverpool are paying to sign Oxlade-Chamberlain
— JS (@Pepological) August 30, 2017
Fantastic from Ronaldo…great cross from Bernardo Silva #Portugal
— Igor Henriques (@IggyHenriques) August 31, 2017
William Carvalho one goal one assist tonight.. Yet West Ham wouldn’t stump up an extra €3m ?@davidgold are you watching? #WHUFC #deadlineday
— James Rosher (@James_Rosher) August 31, 2017
William Carvalho just scored for Portugal. Obviously. #WHUFC #COYI ⚒
— James Jones (@ByJamesJones) August 31, 2017