Cristiano Ronaldo | The phenomenon is not enough

 The phenomenon is not enough. It rarely happens, but sometimes the imponderable happens, like that too light finish by Juve that undoes the good things done so far. And much of that coupon was produced by Ronaldo himself, again in the CR7 version after the European efforts. A goal, a post and a free-kick on which Reina surpassed himself, plus a counter-attack that perhaps deserved a better ending. Translated into statistics: the Portuguese has scored in each of his first four appearances in this Serie A (like Dybala in 2017/18) and reaches 27 goals in calendar year 2020, none like him in the five main leagues on the continent. In short, Cristiano had done his part before giving up due to a sprained right ankle a quarter of an hour from the end, thus settling himself on the bench with the ice pack on his ankle. From that moment Juve dropped a bit of tone: just a case? «Ronaldo is a fundamental player, not only for us, but for all the teams where he played - argues Andrea Pirlo -. Unfortunately he had an ankle problem, he was forced to leave, but even those who entered did well. We failed to keep the ball, to manage certain types of games but overall we are satisfied ». In any case, the injury does not seem worrying: Cris left the Olimpico walking calmly on his legs and will now respond to the call-up of Portugal. In the national team he will carry out the necessary checks but, in fact, there should be no problems for the challenges that await the reigning European champions with Andorra (friendly), France and Croatia (both of Nations League).