Alarmingly he has failed to score with every single one and no player in the history of tournament football has wasted more free-kicks.
The former Romanian international Gheorghe Hagi is in second placed with no goals from his twenty-seven free-kick attempts.
Ronaldo’s Real Madrid team-mate and Wales star Gareth Bale, however, has had no such troubles, netting free-kicks against Slovakia and England to boast a 66.6 percent conversion rate.
Cristiano Ronaldo is having a torrid time at the Euro finals which was compounded by his failure to score from the penalty spot against Austria.
Ronaldo, his country’s all-time leading scorer has failed to hit the target in four of his last five penalties for Portugal and Real Madrid. Portugal manager Fernando Santos has every confidence in his team captain, saying, “If there is a penalty in the next game, Cristiano Ronaldo will take it and he will score”.
There were gasps of disbelief from 20,000 Portuguese fans, who had never before seen one of their players miss a spot-kick outside of a shootout at a major tournament.
In addition the Madeira born superstar spurned several golden chances but his tally of twenty shots, after the first two group games, was eleven more than any other player and more than the total number of shots by several competing nations.