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Cristiano Ronaldo: “This has rarely happened to me!”

Cristiano Ronaldo

(Bild: AFP)

Find out what both teams had to say after the European Championship clash between Portugal and Slovenia HERE!

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal captain): "It's rarely happened to me, so I was incredibly sad and had to cry. But now I'm very happy. There are moments that you can't explain, where the passion just comes through. He (Costa, ed.) saved us. Sadness at the beginning is joy at the end. Oblak kept him well. I didn't miss once all year and when I needed it most, Oblak kept it."

Diogo Costa (Portugal goalkeeper and "Player of the Match"): "These are the great moments in soccer. I'm so happy that I was able to help my team. That was probably the best game of my life. I focused on what I had to do. I trusted my gut feeling."
On missing Ronaldo's penalty: "We all make mistakes. What counts is what we do as a team."

Bruno Fernandes (Portugal midfielder): "We would have preferred to have had the game on our side earlier. They were an incredibly difficult opponent. They defended incredibly well around the penalty area. But at the end of the day, we managed it. They are physically very strong and always dangerous on the counter-attack."

Jon Gorenc Stankovic (Slovenia player): "We're very disappointed in the end. There was a lot more in it today, if I remember the last two chances. But that's soccer. Now we move on, we go home, but we still have to be proud. We played against really good teams and didn't actually lose a game."