{"id":735391,"date":"2026-06-30T19:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/735391\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:15:21","slug":"lionel-messi-doesnt-upset-his-team-mates-cristiano-ronaldo-an-accident-waiting-to-happen-for-portugal-in-world-cup-knockout-stages-says-england-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/735391\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lionel Messi doesn&#8217;t upset his team-mates&#8217; &#8211; Cristiano Ronaldo an &#8216;accident waiting to happen&#8217; for Portugal in World Cup knockout stages, says England legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former winger warned that the situation could deteriorate rapidly if the manager decides to drop Ronaldo in crucial matches against top-tier opposition. Furthermore, Barnes feels that the ongoing success of Messi will only add fuel to the fire, increasing the pressure Ronaldo places on his Portuguese team-mates. <\/p>\n<p>Barnes added: &#8220;He needs to decide against the top teams whether he\u2019s going to leave Cristiano Ronaldo out, but that could become an issue, especially the better that Lionel Messi does, that\u2019ll play on Cristiano\u2019s mind and he\u2019ll demand more from his teammates and become more upset if things aren\u2019t going his way. I think it\u2019s an accident waiting to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former winger warned that the situation could deteriorate rapidly if the manager decides to drop Ronaldo in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[15665,316411,92120,316408,37523,316409,158634,4042,316410,403,99,84938],"class_list":["post-735391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-vs-cabo-verde","tag-c-ronaldo","tag-cabo-verde","tag-croatia","tag-j-barnes","tag-l-messi","tag-portugal","tag-portugal-vs-croatia","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}