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#3 Andorra - 6 goals in 3 games
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first (of two) international quadruples against Andorra when he netted four times in Portugal's 6-0 win in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier.
He scored his first two goals in that game inside the opening four minutes before completing his fourth hat-trick and then his first quadruple in international football in the second half.
Ronaldo's other two goals against Andorra have come in another qualifying game for the 2018 World Cup and in a friendly respectively.
#2 Lithuania - 7 goals in 3 games
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored seven goals against Lithuania in only three games.
After failing to score in his first game against Lithuania way back in 2004, Cristiano Ronaldo netted his second international quadruple against the same opposition 16 years later in a Euro 2020 qualifier.
As if that was not enough, in the return Euro 2020 qualification game against the same opposition two months later, Cristiano Ronaldo notched up his ninth hat-trick in international football.
#1 Sweden - 7 goals in 7 games
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored seven goals in as many games against Sweden.
After going scoreless in his first three games against the Nordic nation, the Portugal captain broke his duck against Sweden by scoring in the first leg of the 2014 FIFA World Cup playoff.
Only a few days later, Cristiano Ronaldo stole a certain Zlatan Ibrahimovich's thunder by netting a sumptuous hat-trick in Solna to take Portugal to the quadrennial tournament at the expense of the hosts.
Seven years later, at the same stadium, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brace in a 2020-21 UEFA Nations League game against Sweden to register the 100th and 101st goal of his illustrious international career.
Ronaldo (102) is now just six goals away from tying Ali Daei's record of most international goals by a player.
