Cristiano Ronaldo sets a series of records at EURO 2024

Cristiano Ronaldo continued to be in the starting lineup and contributed significantly to Portugal's resounding victory over Türkiye in the second match of Group F of EURO 2024.

The 39-year-old superstar was the one who broke the offside trap to receive a pass from his teammate, then made an assist for Bruno Fernandes to easily score the winning goal for his team in the 56th minute.

The assist helped Cristiano Ronaldo continue to set record milestones in the most prestigious European arena at the national team level.

Specifically, with the pass for Bruno to score, Ronaldo has had a total of 8 assists at EURO, equaling the achievement of Czech Republic legend Karel Poborsky.

Not only that, Cristiano Ronaldo also made history as the oldest player to have an assist at EURO (39 years and 138 days).

Ronaldo is also the player with the most appearances in EURO history with 27 matches.

Previously, this superstar also set a record on the opening day of EURO 2024 when he was named in the starting lineup of the Portuguese team in the 2-1 comeback win against the Czech Republic.

Specifically, Ronaldo entered UEFA EURO history as the first player to participate in the tournament 6 times (in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024).

The first EURO that CR7 participated in was in 2004, the tournament was held in Portugal. At that time, he was only 19 years old.

This will probably be a record that will take a long time to break because those with the closest number of appearances to him will hardly have the chance to attend EURO 2028.

Two players currently have five EURO appearances: Pepe (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024) and Luka Modric (Croatia 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024). Meanwhile, the group of four-time EURO players still playing include Toni Kroos, Thomas Mueller and Manuel Neuer, Ivan Perisic, Wojciech Szczesny, Andriy Yarmolenko and Olivier Giroud.

Currently, Ronaldo is also the top scorer in the tournament with a total of 14 goals, far ahead of second place Michel Platini (9 goals).

CR7 still has many opportunities to create more miracles in the Portuguese shirt when he has at least two matches ahead of him at EURO 2024.

Ronaldo is likely to still play in the match against Georgia in the final round of Group F and it is not impossible that he will score his first goal in this year's tournament in that match.

If he scores, Ronaldo will not only break his own record but also become the oldest player to score at EURO. This record currently belongs to Austrian player Ivica Vastic, who scored from the penalty spot in injury time against Poland at EURO 2008 at the age of 38 years and 257 days.

Along with Ronaldo, veteran center-back Pepe also continued to set a new record in his career when he was placed in the starting lineup by coach Roberto Martínez.

Specifically, by playing in the victory over Türkiye, Pepe continued to increase the record of the oldest player to play in a EURO Finals at 41 years and 116 days.

With Portugal having already qualified for this year's tournament, Pepe will certainly still be on the pitch to set this record.

Returning to last night's match at Signal Iduna Park, Portugal was the dominant team right from the opening whistle and Bernardo Silva opened the scoring in the 21st minute.

Just eight minutes later, Portugal doubled their lead after being "gifted" an own goal from a careless pass back by defender Samet Akaydin, thereby gaining a big advantage.

After taking a two-goal lead, coach Roberto Martínez's team continued to increase the pressure but only managed to score the final goal in the 56th minute from Bruno after a pass from Cristiano Ronaldo.

This victory helped the Portuguese team have 6 absolute points and officially win the top spot in Group F, thereby only having to face the third-placed team of Group A, B or C in the round of 16.