Fonte, who couldn’t make the lower for the Portugal squad, felt the Fernando Santos-coached facet was extra fluid with out their famous person striker.
“Portugal have the standard to do that in each recreation, however we now have to be trustworthy – simply his presence on the sector makes the gamers of the nationwide workforce unconsciously and routinely must play for him and all the time give him the ball, ” Fonte stated on A Bola. “Being who he’s, for what he has completed and what he’s nonetheless able to doing.
“When he isn’t there, Portugal performs extra as a workforce and that was seen (towards Switzerland). They performed fluidly, with no single point of interest, everybody contributed and it was stunning to see,” he said on a podcast, as quoted by A Bola.
“You can not educate a legend like Ronaldo. Ronaldo will all the time be Ronaldo and for Portugal, it’s even very constructive to have a participant like him come off the bench – it will likely be another drawback to trigger the opponents. Fernando Santos introduced a really robust mentality to the nationwide workforce.