Ronaldo’s Champions League Hat Trick Against Athletico Madrid:- The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship is generally referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 or just Euro 2020. It is scheduled to be the 16th UEFA European Championship.
The UEFA Euro 2020 is scheduled to be held from 12 June to 12 July 2020 in 12 cities of 12 European countries. Portugal is the defending champions who were the winning team in the 2016 edition. The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system is going to be used at the UEFA European Championship for the first time. The semi-finals and final will be hosted by Wembley Stadium in London for the second time, they had also hosted in the 1996 tournament.
Each European city will host three group stage matches and one match in the quarter-finals or round of 16. The match distribution for the 12 stadiums is as follows:
| Group stage, a round of 16, semi-finals, and final | London (England) |
| Group stage and quarter-finals | Munich (Germany), Baku (Azerbaijan), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Rome (Italy) |
| Group stage and round of 16 | Copenhagen (Denmark), Bucharest (Romania), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Dublin (Republic of Ireland), Bilbao (Spain), Budapest (Hungary), Glasgow (Scotland) |
The host European cities were divided into six combinations, established on the basis of geographical considerations, sporting strength, and political constraints. The combinations were allotted to groups by means of a draw on 7 December 2017. Each qualified host European country will play a minimum of two matches at home. The group venue combinations are as follows:
| Group A | Rome (Italy) and Baku (Azerbaijan) |
| Group B | Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Copenhagen (Denmark) |
| Group C | Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Bucharest (Romania) |
| Group D | London (England) and Glasgow (Scotland) |
| Group E | Bilbao (Spain) and Dublin (Republic of Ireland) |
| Group F | Munich (Germany) and Budapest (Hungary) |
Important Dates
| Dates | Event |
| 24 January 2018 | UEFA Nations League draw; this will divide the four associate leagues into groups of either three or four. |
| 19–27 March 2018 | Next international friendlies window |
| 14 June to 15 July 2018 | FIFA World Cup finals |
| 6-8 September 2018 | UEFA Nations League matchday one |
| 9-11 September 2018 | UEFA Nations League matchday two |
| 11-13 October 2018 | UEFA Nations League matchday three |
| 14-16 October 2018 | UEFA Nations League matchday four |
| 15-17 November 2018 | UEFA Nations League matchday five |
| 18-20 November 2018 | UEFA Nations League matchday six |
| 2 December 2018 | European Qualifiers group stage draw |
| 21–26 March 2019 | Start of UEFA EURO 2020 qualifying. Subsequent qualifying fixtures will take place in the following windows in 2019: 7–8 & 10–11 June, 5–10 September, 10–15 October & 14–19 November. |
| 5/6 and 9 June 2019 | UEFA Nations League Finals. This event is for the teams that win the four groups within the top division. |
| 22 November 2019 | European Qualifiers play-off draw |
| 30 November 2019 | UEFA EURO 2020 final tournament draw |
| 26–31 March 2020 | European Qualifiers play-offs |
| 12 June to 12 July 2020 | UEFA EURO 2020 final tournament |
About Cristiano Ronaldo:
Ronaldo was the highest scorer in the UEFA Champions League for the sixth successive season and won his 5th Champions League title. He played in the World Cup and scored 4 goals which included a hat-trick against Spain after his victory with Real Madrid. Eventually, he became the second highest goal scorer in International football. He also became the highest in teams from the European football federation. He is also the first player to score in nine consecutive International tournaments and became the oldest hat-trick scorer at the FIFA World Cup. He is the most expensive player who is over 30-years-old. Totally, he scored 43 goals in all matches at the club level in 2018 which is the second highest tally for the year. He racked up 14 assists this year for Real Madrid and Juventus combined. Ronaldo scored six goals in just seven games and is the country’s top scorer for the year for Portugal.
Why is Ronaldo’s champions league hat trick against Athletico Madrid a genius strike?
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 24 goals in total and assisted another 12 strikes in 36 advents in all competitions for Juventus this season so far, but in Series A, he was overtaken by Fabio Quagliarella in the Capocannoniere race for the top goal scorer after being rested for the Bianconeri’s past two league championships.
Cristiano Ronaldo deceived Schalke defender Joel Matip right out of his jock whilst this mesmerizing goal sequence in the second half of Real Madrid’s 6-1 out in the Champions League Round of 16. Cristiano’s dribbling skill which is his trademark had turned opposing defenders into deer staring into headlights.
Ronaldo’s hat-trick heroics against Atletico Madrid for Juventus means that he now owns as many Champions League match balls as his rival, Lionel Messi. The Portuguese have been the chief leading scorer in Europe’s premier club championship for quite some time.
Juventus supervised a home date, with Atletico needing inspiration from somewhere as they struggled a last-16 encounter 2-0. It was a little surprising to see Ronaldo step up and deliver the kind of match-winning showing with which he has become tantamount. He has single-handedly turned a continental clatter on its head by breaking one of the tightest defensive units on three occasions. While doing so, the Ballon d’Or winner matched the hat-trick return of a footballer from Barcelona with whom he had spent numerous years raising the bar of individual excellence.
Cristiano had come across with Atletico sat on seven Champions League hat-tricks for almost two years. However, Cristiano was running into a favored foe. The Rojiblancos realized that they were on the receiving end of his prolific strike rate during a record-breaking spell at city rivals Real Madrid very often. Back in the semi-finals of 2016-17, Atletico was the last side Ronaldo fired a European treble against.
Ronaldo had also achieved similar achievements against Bayern Munich, a round earlier that season. He now has his first hat-trick for Juventus as the records will continue to spill around him. In his first appearance with the Bianconeri, he is currently the leading scorer of Champions League goals at the Allianz Stadium.
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