Lithuania vs Portugal (1-5)
Cristiano Ronaldo scored four to require his international tally to ninety-three goals as Portugal claimed a 5-1 persuade Baltic State in monetary unit 2020 qualifying on an evening to forget for goalkeeper Ernestas Setkus.
With Ronaldo’s early penalty having been off out by Vytautas Andriuskevicius before half-time.
Setkus was guilty of a mistake once he fumbled a strike from the Juventus forward to once more hand this year’s Nations League winners the advantage.
Ronaldo presently additional two more before William Carvalho added a late fifth to seal the persuade cluster B’s bottom side.
Second-placed Portugal rapt among 5 points of leaders states United Nations agency they need a game in hand on, with the triumph.
Ronaldo created no mistake as he unbroken his cool from the penalty spot.
Firing low into the bottom-right corner to feature to the goal he scored in Saturday’s persuade geographical region.
Portugal is continuing to appear a threat and Jose Fonte and Ronaldo each saw efforts saved by Setkus.
And the regnant European champions were left rueing those lost possibilities within the twenty-eighth minute once Andriuskevicius rose highest to go Mantas Kuklys’ outswinging corner in off the post.
Then, somewhat inevitably, it fell to Ronaldo to show the match back in Portugal’s favor yet again.
What appeared the goalkeeper fumbled a routine strike from Ronaldo from the sting of the world with sixty-one minutes on the clock before spinning up and bouncing in off his back.
Ronaldo then created bound of the points four minutes later once he sweptwing home Bernardo Silva’s accurate delivery before the combine combined once more within the 76th minute.
With the ex-Real national capital player finding the bottom-right corner from within the box. Lithuania vs Portugal
Goals Lithuania
| 28′ | Lithuania | V. Andriuskevicius |
Goals Portugal
| 7′ | Portugal | C. Ronaldo (pen.) |
| 62′ | Portugal | C. Ronaldo |
| 65′ | Portugal | C. Ronaldo |
| 76′ | Portugal | C. Ronaldo |
| 90+2′ | Portugal | W. Carvalho |
Lithuania Lineups
| 16 | Ernestas Šetkus |
| 13 | Saulius Mikoliūnas |
| 3 | Markus Palionis |
| 4 | Edvinas Girdvainis |
| 19 | Vytautas Andriuškevičius |
| 11 | Domantas Šimkus |
| 14 | Vykintas Slivka |
| 21 | Modestas Vorobjovas |
| 17 | Mantas Kuklys |
| 18 | Ovidijus Verbickas |
| 9 | Karolis Laukžemis |
Portugal Lineups
| 1 | Rui Patrício |
| 20 | João Cancelo |
| 6 | José Fonte |
| 4 | Rúben Dias |
| 5 | Raphaël Guerreiro |
| 11 | Bruno Fernandes |
| 18 | Rúben Neves |
| 14 | William Carvalho |
| 10 | Bernardo Silva |
| 7 | Cristiano Ronaldo |
| 23 | João Félix |
Lithuania vs Portugal Match Statistics
Lithuania |
Portugal |
|
| 7 | Shots Total | 28 |
| 3 | Shots on goal | 14 |
| 3 | Shots off goal | 10 |
| 1 | Shots blocked | 4 |
| 2 | Shots inside box | 15 |
| 5 | Shots outside box | 13 |
| 10 | Fouls | 7 |
| 4 | Corners | 15 |
| 1 | Offsides | 2 |
| 10 | Saves | 2 |
| 34% | Possession Time | 66% |
| 372 | Passes Total | 723 |
| 292 | Accurate Passes | 664 |