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Portugal dropped points for the first time in Group A1 as they were forced to settle for a share of the spoils with Scotland at Hampden.
On his 216th international appearance, Ronaldo made his 200th start for his country, more than 21 years on from his first.
However, the 39-year-old failed to add to his 133 Portugal goals and stormed off the field at full-time ranting at the officials.
Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was left frustrated at the end of the UEFA Nations League encounter against Scotland in Glasgow that ended in a goalless draw. AP
The home side needed a wonder save from goalkeeper Craig Gordon to deny Bruno Fernandes a winner for Portugal in the closing stages, but held out to secure their first point in the top tier of the Nations League.
That allowed them to end a run of four straight competitive defeats, but they have now won just once — in a friendly against Gibraltar — in their last 16 matches.
Croatia, Poland share six goals
“Their goalkeeper was incredible. We couldn’t get a goal, but the performance was positive,” Portugal coach Roberto Martinez told UEFA.com.
“Results are a consequence of performances and, tonight, we deserved to win.”
Croatia are second in the group behind Portugal after playing out a thrilling 3-3 draw with Poland in Warsaw, in a match which featured five first-half goals.
Piotr Zielinski of Inter Milan, wearing the captain’s armband as Robert Lewandowski started on the bench, gave Poland an early lead.
However, Borna Sosa equalised and further goals by Petar Sucic and Martin Baturina put Croatia 3-1 up after 26 minutes.
Nicola Zalewski pulled one back in first-half stoppage time and Sebastian Szymanski secured a draw for Poland with a terrific strike midway through the second half.
Croatia ended the game with 10 men after goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic was shown a red card for catching Lewandowski outside the area.
In the third-tier League C, Northern Ireland went top of Group 3 with a 5-0 win over Bulgaria in Belfast.
Isaac Price of Standard Liege in Belgium was the hero with a hat-trick, as the 21-year-old became the country’s youngest ever scorer of three goals in a game. Northern Ireland’s last hat-trick scorer was David Healy in 2007.
An own goal by goalkeeper Dimitar Mitov and a late Josh Magennis effort completed the scoring, while captain Kiril Despodov missed a penalty for Bulgaria.
Belarus and Luxembourg drew 1-1 in the same group, while there were wins for Romania and Kosovo against Lithuania and Cyprus respectively in Group C2.
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