Cristiano Ronaldo scores beautiful bicycle kick in five-star Poland thrashing to seal Portugal’s path to Nations League quarter-finals

Cristiano Ronaldo rolled again the years by scoring a spectacular bicycle kick as Portugal thumped Poland 5-1 in Friday’s UEFA Nations League contest to qualify for the competitors’s quarter-finals.

The 39-year-old continues to captain his nationwide crew regardless of being within the twilight years of his profession and stays lethal in entrance of objective as Poland’s defence came upon first-hand.

Ronaldo began the encounter upfront and scored twice within the emphatic victory with Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes, Rafael Leao and Chelsea‘s Pedro Neto additionally discovering the again of the web within the win.

The Actual Madrid and Man United legend scored his first objective from the penalty spot to offer Portugal a two-goal cushion, however it was his second strike that shocked these contained in the Estadio do Dragao.

Ronaldo beforehand scored a surprising bicycle kick towards Juventus in 2018 that’s widely-regarded as the best objective in Champions League historical past, and whereas his newest strike wasn’t as unbelievable, it was nonetheless a formidable feat.

Portugal had been attacking across the fringe of Poland’s field within the remaining couple of minutes of regulation time earlier than a quick-one two gave PSG midfielder Vitinha house to work a cross throughout objective.

His pinpoint cross was completely weighted to seek out Ronaldo in acres of house on the back-post and the celebrity striker duly obliged by rising into the air and making a surprising connection.

Ronaldo needed to generate a lot of the energy himself with Neto’s cross floated into the air however executed his effort completely, sending the ball again throughout objective and into the underside nook with goalkeeper Marcin Bulka stranded.

The 50,000-seater stadium exploded because the ball nestled at the back of the web and a shocked Ronaldo sprinted off to have a good time, hitting his iconic siuuu celebration and pumping fists earlier than being mobbed by team-mates.

His objective put Portugal en route for a 5-0 cleansheet win over Poland just for Dominik Marczuk to attain a comfort for the guests only one minute later.

Supporters on social media had been amazed by Ronaldo’s athleticism with one fan posting on X: ‘What a spectacular bicycle kick! Actually the GOAT.’

One other onlooker said: ‘Nearly 40 how is he nonetheless doing this?’ in response to the outstanding objective.

His two strikes towards Poland transfer Ronaldo onto 910 profession objectives with the icon dreaming of reaching 1000 earlier than retirement and has already scored 15 occasions for membership and nation this season.