Ronaldo celebrates international milestone with brace against Liechtenstein

Cristiano Ronaldo reached another international milestone with his 197th appearance for Portugal and celebrated the accomplishment with a brace in A Seleção's 4-0 win over minnows Liechtenstein in EURO 2024 qualifying.

Liechtenstein could only watch in resignation as the A Selecao breezed through their first EURO 2024 qualifying game because Portugal spared no expense for Roberto Martinez' first game in charge of the national team. 

The 4-0 win sees Portugal climb to first place after their first game in the qualifiers, as they pip Bosnia & Herzegovina who beat Iceland 3-0. 

Cristiano Ronaldo was the hero again, as he has already been many times for Portugal. 

The Al Nassr star was on hand to score Porugal’s third and fourth goals against Liechtenstein, taking his goalscoring record to 120 goals in 197 games for the Portuguese national team. 

Liechtenstein never stood a chance and had goalkeeper, Benjamin Buchel to thank for keeping the score respectable against Portugal. 

Portugal fired 35 shots against Liechtenstein with 11 of them on target, leaving Buchel with seven difficult saves to make despite conceding four goals. 

A Selecao were ahead after only eight minutes, as Joao Cancelo opened the scoring with a long-range effort to put Portugal 1-0 up.

Portugal doubled their lead two minutes after halftime as Bernardo Silva made it 2-0, before Ronaldo scored his first of the night from the penalty spot to put the home side 3-0 up. 

Ronaldo scored again to wrap up the scoring, this time with a longe-ranger effort to make it 4-0 before being taken off to rapturous applause by the Portuguese fans.