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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi exit after failing to find World Cup spark again
[su_label type=”info”]SMA News – Agencies [/su_label][su_spacer size=”10″] On the highest-scoring day of World Cup knockout football since 1970, two of the greatest players of all time failed to find the net.
For Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, their inability to make decisive impacts in their teams’ last-16 matches means their tournaments – and perhaps their hopes of claiming the game’s biggest prize – are over.
Defeats for Argentina against France, and Portugal against Uruguay, leave the pair – aged 31 and 33 respectively – knowing the chances that they will ever be able to call themselves World Cup winners have dropped sharply.
For Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, their inability to make decisive impacts in their teams’ last-16 matches means their tournaments – and perhaps their hopes of claiming the game’s biggest prize – are over.
Defeats for Argentina against France, and Portugal against Uruguay, leave the pair – aged 31 and 33 respectively – knowing the chances that they will ever be able to call themselves World Cup winners have dropped sharply.
