Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated but Bruno Fernandes scored the goal.
The latter has the evidence on his side.
No external force can be measured on the ball.Adidas writes in a statement.
Cristiano Ronaldo wasn’t entirely happy after Portugal’s 2-0 victory over Uruguay.
As TV pictures tracked the star down from Madeira, he nodded and ran his hand through his hair. “The ball touched my head!” He wanted to appear.
Fernandez scored
Ronaldo thought again when Portugal took the lead in the 54th minute.
He pounced on a Bruno Fernandes cross and celebrated the goal as if it were his own.
First, FIFA gave the goal to Ronaldo in the official match report, but before the match was over, the protocol was rewritten. Bruno Fernandes scored the goal because FIFA ruled that the ball did not touch Ronaldo’s head on its way into the goal.
The incident led to discussions afterwards.
In the SVT studio after the match, for example, expert Daniel Nannskog claimed that Ronaldo should have scored the goal and used TV enlarged images as evidence.
Pictures that drop Ronaldo
However, the best clue seemed to be awarding the goal to Bruno Fernandes.
It comes from the German company Adidas, which made the sensor inside the World Cup balls. The sensor primarily assists in offside provisions by identifying when players are in contact with the ball.
“We can show that there is no contact with the ball from Cristiano Ronaldo”Adidas writes in a statement.
The company has released images, reported by the Daily Mail, of what the sensor looked like when the ball went over Ronaldo’s head. It did not produce any results.
“No external force on the sphere can be measured, as evidenced by the absence of a ‘heartbeat’ in our measurements and in the accompanying drawings.”Adidas writes.
