Even though Roberto Martinez’s team had already won the group, Cristiano Ronaldo started for Portugal in their last Euro 2024 group match against Georgia, and things didn’t go well in the first half.

Few football players can pull off an on-field tantrum like Portugal’s captain, nor have they ever. Sporting Lisbon, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Juventus, Al-Nassr, and his country’s supporters have grown accustomed to them throughout the course of his illustrious career.

And little under 30 minutes into Portugal’s last Euro 2024 group stage match against Georgia, with the team losing 1-0 due to an early goal by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Ronaldo produced a stunning save.

Without a doubt, Ronaldo was pulled to the ground as Pedro Neto hooked up a cross into the penalty area. His shirt was torn, his hands were all over the place, and his marker was everywhere. Ronaldo came to an end on deck. He sat with his legs crossed and grumbled. As he made an appeal, his hands shot into the air, and his teammates followed suit. Sandro Scharer, the referee, was following the ball and didn’t want to know.

Ronaldo’s gaze shifted to the helper. He was now on his knees, making violently gestures, tugging at his own shirt, pointing at his eye, and posing the question, “How did you not see that?”

The man in blue on the touchline continued the game, just like the man in blue in the middle.

In response to Roberto Martinez’s presence in his technical area at the Portuguese dugout, Ronaldo raised his arm in the third segment of his accusations. Here, too, the message was straightforward: “Check the monitors!” and “Get VAR on the case.”

But, the referee permitted Georgia goalie Giorgi Mamardashvili to restart play after the ball left the field of play and the game was stopped for an extremely brief while.

Here comes Ronaldo’s fourth blowback.

Once again, he successfully grabbed the referee’s attention, sending another arm flying in disgust. Still filled with wrath, he waltzed over to the referee and yelled something, to which the Swiss official responded with a yellow card.

Disgusted by the unfairness of it all, he strode off with another arm up.

The large Georgian population in Gelsenkirchen let out additional wild applause as the PA announcer revealed his name on the stadium screens and confirmed that he had been booked.

Ronaldo had a really bad night overall as Portugal lost 2-0, which was the biggest upset in the history of the Euros.