With or without Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal stay one of the most amazing groups in Europe as they indicated by and by with their 3-0 Nations League prevail upon Sweden on Wednesday.
Sweden have made a propensity for thumping groups, for example, Portugal out of their step with their forceful, physical style yet the European heroes would not be tormented, even without their supernatural untouched record scorer.
The 35-year-old was administered out of the match on Tuesday in the wake of testing positive for COVID-19 and flew back to Italy, where he plays for Juventus, before Wednesday's down to sit out at any rate 10 days in isolate.
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Ronaldo additionally missed the match at home to Croatia a month ago because of a toe contamination—yet Portugal likewise won that one 4-1.
Truth be told, there have frequently been mumbles that Portugal look a superior, more intelligible side without Ronaldo, whose presence can be oppressive for more youthful players.
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Two years prior, he sat out of the Nations League qualifying stage out and out to focus on his club football and Portugal traveled through their gathering without losing.
At the point when he returned for the Final Four a year ago, Portugal won that also, with Ronaldo scoring a cap stunt in their 3-1 semi-last win over Switzerland.
With an apparently perpetual creation line producing skilled players and a wily, practical mentor in Fernando Santos, Portugal are continually going to be a danger.
"Portugal have played well (without Ronaldo) a lot of times as of now," said Santos who, has lost just three serious games since assuming control more than six years back.
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"We are positively worse without him, yet the group actually have the capacity, quality and methodology to confront any adversaries."
On Wednesday, it was Diogo Jota's chance to sparkle. Chosen as Ronaldo's substitution, the 23-year-old set up the main objective for Bernardo Silva and scored different objectives himself.
Be that as it may, Portugal were noteworthy in general. Rui Patricio was unflappable in objective and the focal protective matching of Pepe and Ruben Dias additionally looked strong.
The best part is that possibly, was the midfield matching of Danilo and the surprisingly trustworthy William Carvalho, who is back in the group after a progression of bothering wounds.
"We figured out how to make things simpler for ourselves," said Angola-conceived Carvalho.
"It wasn't because of Ronaldo's nonappearance - he's the best part on the planet and his nonattendance is constantly felt. In any case, we performed well without Cristiano and that was our point."