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Fans of both sides applauded on the seventh minute<\/strong><\/p>\n Manchester United and Liverpool supporters united in a fan-led minute of applause at Anfield in support of Cristiano Ronaldo and his family, following the death of his baby boy.<\/p>\n Liverpool fans sang their club\u2019s anthem \u2018You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone\u2019 in the seventh minute \u2013 Ronaldo\u2019s shirt number at United \u2013 of the league match.<\/p>\n A United shirt with Ronaldo\u2019s name and number was held up in the away end.<\/p>\n The Portugal international missed Tuesday\u2019s match between the two rivals.<\/p>\n On Monday, Ronaldo and partner, Georgina Rodriguez, announced the death of their baby boy, saying it is the \u201cgreatest pain that any parents can feel.\u201d<\/p>\n Their baby girl survived, and they said her birth \u201cgives us the strength to live this moment with some hope and happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur baby boy, you are our angel. We will always love you,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n Both United and Liverpool players wore black armbands in a mark of respect to Ronaldo and his family.<\/p>\n Before the match, which Liverpool won 4-0 to go two points clear at the top of the Premier League table, United\u2019s interim boss, Ralf Rangnick, said there were more important things in life than football.<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole team, the whole club is with him [Ronaldo],\u201d added Rangnick.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, it was clear he has to be where he is now with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, called the applause in memory of Ronaldo\u2019s son his \u201cmoment of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo many things are much more important in life than football, we feel for Cristiano and his family,\u201d Klopp said.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is exactly how football should be, with all rivalry aside at this moment. There is only one thing that is important, and it was a show of class. All our thoughts, from the moment we heard about it, are with Cristiano and his family.<\/p>\n \u201cI cannot even imagine how it must be, and we really feel for him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fans of both sides applauded on the seventh minute Manchester United and Liverpool supporters united in a fan-led minute of applause at Anfield in support of Cristiano Ronaldo and his family, following the death of his baby boy. Liverpool fans sang their club\u2019s anthem \u2018You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone\u2019 in the seventh minute \u2013 Ronaldo\u2019s shirt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1958,476,697,2298,2210],"class_list":["post-1062881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-liverpool","tag-love","tag-man","tag-ronaldo","tag-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}