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Fernando Santos has hit out at Ronaldo for his reaction to being substituted<\/strong><\/p>\n Portugal coach Fernando Santos has blasted Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s reaction to being substituted in Friday\u2019s World Cup game against South Korea, and refused to confirm whether the striker will play against Switzerland today.<\/p>\n Ronaldo looked visibly frustrated when he was replaced in the 65th minute of the 2-1 defeat, with cameras catching the 37-year-old appearing to say, \u201cHe\u2019s in a rush to sub me.\u201d<\/p>\n Ronaldo was then involved in a verbal altercation with South Korea player Cho Gue-Sung as he left the field, and it was only after the game that Santos realised how Ronaldo had reacted to his substitution.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s split this answer in two,\u201d said Santos when asked about video footage appearing to show Ronaldo criticising the decision to substitute him.<\/p>\n \u201cRight after the match, I spoke in the flash interview, and then went to the press conference, and there I said something I\u2019ll repeat here: on the pitch, I didn\u2019t hear anything. I was too far, and this is why I only saw him arguing with a South Korean player, and nothing else.<\/p>\n \u201cHave I already watched the footage? Yes. I didn\u2019t like it. Didn\u2019t like it at all. From there, it\u2019s things you sort out internally. It was sorted out this way, and now we think about the game tomorrow. Everyone is focused on the game.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite holding clear-the-air talks with Ronaldo, Santos refused to confirm whether he would be named in the team for the round-of-16 tie with Switzerland at Lusail Stadium \u2014 potentially his last game at a World Cup.<\/p>\n \u201cI only tell the team who will play in the dressing room,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we\u2019re in the stadium they find out about the team. And they know that. It\u2019s been like this since I arrived. I will start the team that I think should play. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve been doing my entire life. I\u2019m OK with myself, have no problem. I stay with my conscience.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe after the match I reflect on it that I might have taken a different decision. But it\u2019s been like this since I arrived in 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fernando Santos has hit out at Ronaldo for his reaction to being substituted Portugal coach Fernando Santos has blasted Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s reaction to being substituted in Friday\u2019s World Cup game against South Korea, and refused to confirm whether the striker will play against Switzerland today. Ronaldo looked visibly frustrated when he was replaced in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3215,6993,5824,29607,6246],"class_list":["post-1262035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-blasts","tag-portugal","tag-reaction","tag-ronaldo-for","tag-trainer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262035","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=1262035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}