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Cristiano Ronaldo’s recent goal-scoring drought has been backfired and San Marino did not hesitate to roast the Portuguese striker’s poor form on Twitter. San Marino scored their first ever competitive away goal in over 14 years and their reaction to their long awaited achievement is priceless.
The national team celebrated their goal in style as their official Twitter account suggests. In all the chaos, the international minnows fired bullets at the former Manchester United man’s direction but he was not the only victim on the night. Arsenal were also at the receiving end of San Marino’s master troll.
San Marino were unfortunate to concede a goal at stoppage time with ten men against Lithuania, but they still remained jubilant and in return received a lot of love on their Twitter account.
Here are the two tweets that mocked Cristiano Ronaldo’ s goal scoring drought:
While this tweet was fired in Arsenal’s direction:
The first Ronaldo tweet can be translated easily, but the second translates as ‘Cristiano Ronaldo phoned the hotel where we’re staying. He wanted us to teach him how to score goals.’
The barren run for the 30-year-old both for club and country is unusual and he is yet to open his account this season.
San Marino also took a dig at Arsenal’s lack of Champions League glory despite failing to pick up a win in a competitive game in their entire history.
This translated as, ‘And in the end we get our goal, in life everything comes around, apart from a Champions League for Arsenal‘.
Real Madrid drew their opening La Liga fixture against Gijon but came back strong at home against Real Betis who were thrashed 5-0 with some stellar performances coming from James Rodriguez and Gareth Bale. Rafa Benitez's men will play Espanyol on September 12 as they will look to conquer the Catalan side and get hold of all three points. They will also be hoping that their talisman Ronaldo goes back to his free-scoring ways.
