Cristiano Ronaldo escapes from the United bench before the end of the match – Corriere.it

Cristiano Ronaldo is now a case at Manchester United. Sitting on the bench throughout the match against Antonio Conte’s Tottenham, won by the Red Devils 2-0 on Wednesday 19 October, he got up and went to the locker room 4 ‘before the final whistle. We will take care of it on Thursday, now we celebrate the victory, the words of the technician on TV, Erik Ten Hag. The reserve role was not appreciated by the Portuguese champion, who did not like the substitution before the hour of play on Sunday 16 October with Newcastle, when he started in the starting line.

I do not care Cristiano Ronaldo, we’ll take care of it on Thursday. I want to keep the focus on this team, on who went on the pitch, the Manchester United manager said at a press conference at theOld Trafford. And again: Against a team that presses like Tottenham does, we needed players who press and give us dynamism. I had already seen Sunday against Newcastle when he entered, that Rashford he was able to give us these things. why I chose him.

Moreover CR7 had already done something similar at the end of July, at the height of his crusade to leave Manchester: he had played the first half of the friendly match with Rayo Vallecano, his first outing of the season and the first for Red Devils at Old Trafford, but he was gone before the end, also imitated by other comrades. On that occasion he had infuriated Ten Hag: An unacceptable thing, there will be consequences. For many, that was the beginning of the end of the relationship between the Portuguese champion and the club. It is now a foreign body.