{"id":10278,"date":"2021-06-24T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=115457"},"modified":"2021-06-24T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:19:00","slug":"euro-2020-cristiano-ronaldo-and-karim-benzema-scored-twice-each-to-draw-level-as-they-progressed-to-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/euro-2020-cristiano-ronaldo-and-karim-benzema-scored-twice-each-to-draw-level-as-they-progressed-to-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2020: Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema scored twice each to draw level as they progressed to round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three penalties and two goals each from Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema as they advanced to the round of 16 with France at top of Group F and Portugal at number 3 following Germany at second with Hungary at last for which, the Euro 2020 journey ended.<\/p>\n<p>Four goals thriller draw at Puskas Arena between the Euro 2016 and World Cup champions where Ronaldo and Benzema braces guaranteed their nation for a round of 16 taking one point home, each. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQekeNMJN-E\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadrid)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Serie A striker, Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring and gave the lead to his side from the penalty spot in the first half at the 30th minute. His first goal of the night made him the leading European goalscorer across Euros and World Cup with 20.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid\u2019s Karim Benzema equalled with another penalty of the game and netted his first goal for France since October 2015, at added minutes of the first half, 45+2. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The second half started in favour of Didier Deschamps team when Laliga striker Benzema finished another goal at 47th minute after a stunning pass from Paul Pogba that put France at the top of Group F.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcab What a night for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benzema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Benzema<\/a>! \u26bd\u26bd<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FRA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FRA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SeHzT2AV5v\">pic.twitter.com\/SeHzT2AV5v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Madrid C.F. \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@realmadriden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadriden\/status\/1407809176546447368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The lead didn\u2019t last long as Ronaldo levelled again with the third penalty of the game at 60th minute and the match ended 2-2 draw. Cristiano\u2019s brace took him to 109 international goals that equalled Ali Daei\u2019s record for most, for his country. He became the 1st Portuguese player in history who has scored in all 3 group games of the Euro tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude32 He's done it!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cristiano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cristiano<\/a> has equalled Ali Daei's all-time men's record of 109 international goals <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKWJfbbAN5\">pic.twitter.com\/WKWJfbbAN5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIFA (@FIFAcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAcom\/status\/1407805275403390976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Benzema gets awarded with Star of the match for his incredible performance. Two goals, four shots, one key pass with 93% passing accuracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Karim Benzema rewarded after his double for France \ud83e\udd47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heineken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Heineken<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EUROSOTM?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EUROSOTM<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tB3RqqGj0u\">pic.twitter.com\/tB3RqqGj0u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA EURO (@UEFAEURO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFAEURO\/status\/1407811423837773830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both the teams will be back in action where Portugal will face Belgium and France to fight against Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three penalties and two goals each from Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema as they advanced to the round of 16\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":32786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[321,1722,284,1817,449,613,922,266,178],"class_list":["post-10278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-euro-2020","tag-france","tag-karim-benzema","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-paul-pogba","tag-portugal","tag-real-madrid","tag-uefa"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}