Nick Miller

There was a whole thing.

One of his teammates gave an interview after the game in which he said... He gave a fairly bland answer.

Someone asked him, you know, you're a team, you're a collective.

How does Cristiano fit into that?

And he said something along the lines of, well, yeah, we are a team and collective.

Everyone's working together.

Cristiano isn't... He doesn't want to be thought of as...

anything other than a member of the team.

And that got kind of put up and interpreted as him saying that Ronaldo was just an ordinary player.

Now, if you're kind of familiar with Cristiano Ronaldo fans on the internet, that didn't go down well with some of them.

It got sucked into this whole thing about the player's girlfriend.

There was a fake quote that someone made on some Instagram account, Cristiano Ronaldo's girlfriend, that replied to that.

And it became this kind of huge distraction, which hopefully the Portugal players are kind of insulated from.

You know, they...

Most of these guys don't run their social media accounts.

They have other people to do that for them.

So you'd hope that they haven't really seen any of these comments.

And, you know, I'm not sort of naturally disposed to having sympathy for Cristiano Ronaldo.

But I do have a lot of sympathy for him here because...

He hasn't done anything.