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Record-breaker Cristiano Ronaldo knocks Morocco out of the World Cup with Portugal winner

Alex Rea

18:03 20/06/2018

Morocco were the first team to fall out of the World Cup after a Cristiano Ronaldo bullet header consigned them to a second straight 1-0 defeat.

The Portugal superstar moved ahead of Hungarian great Ferenc Puskas to become the highest scoring European in international football with his 85th goal in 152 appearances.

His brave header from a fourth-minute corner was enough to secure all three points, although, the Euro 2016 champions were fortunate to survive a Moroccan onslaught with their profligacy either side of the half consigning them to an undeserving defeat.

With Iran and Spain to play later this evening and both sides guaranteed to at least move onto four points in Group B, pointless Morocco are now out.

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