World Cup: Cristiano Ronaldo was awful in the defeat of Portugal against Uruguay

The Portuguese national football team was forced to pack their bags and definitively leave the 2018 FIFA World Cup after Uruguay surpbaded them in a magnificent 2- victory. 1 Saturday.

The result was all the more surprising as the tournament could no longer watch Cristiano Ronaldo strutting.

The Portuguese striker was eliminated from the World Cup a few hours after a similar fate was imposed on his football rival Lionel Messi, who played a key role in the 4-3 defeat from Argentina facing a fit France.

While Messi provided two badists in his team's valiant attempt to overthrow France, Ronaldo was responsible for a really awful display this weekend.

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In fact, three statistics show how bad Ronaldo was during the defeat of his team against Uruguay.

According to statistical data of Squawka football website on all field players of Portugal (everyone on the pitch minus the goalkeeper), Ronaldo recorded:

1. The smallest number of keys – 49 (The fewer contacts you have, the less likely you are to have a positive impact on the game).
2. The smallest number of pbades attempted – 25 (the more pbades you try, the more likely you are to provide a game-changing moment).
3. The smallest number of successful pbades – 21 (this shows how much Uruguay's defense managed to get Ronaldo out of the game).

Ronaldo scored 6.66 out of 10 for his performance against Uruguay, according to the data site Whoscored.com – and it's the lowest score he's got received in the four matches that he played at the 2018 World Cup.

The 33-year-old kicked off the tournament in an exciting way by scoring three extraordinary goals in Portugal's 3-3 draw against France. Spain on June 15th. Five days later, he scored the only goal of Portugal's 1-0 win over Morocco.

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With four goals scored after only two World Cup games, Ronaldo was one of the few football players to be able to win the 2018 Golden Boot – the award given to the top scorer.

But things have changed dramatically.

Ronaldo played badly in Portugal's last World Cup match against Iran on Monday. The team gave up a 1-0 lead and drew 1-1 in a match where Ronaldo missed a penalty and narrowly missed a red card.

But unfortunately for Ronaldo, things got worse when his last World Cup match 2018 – Saturday's loss to Uruguay – was the worst of the day.