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		</div><p><b>Portugal 0 Austria 0</b></p>
<p>Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty &#8211; and spurned a hatful of other chances &#8211; as Portugal were frustrated at Euro 2016 yet again and held 0-0 by Austria.</p>
<p>The Real Madrid star, winning his record 128th Portugal cap, had already ensured he would be the centre of attention after some unflattering comments about Iceland following his side&#8217;s opening draw on Tuesday.</p>
<p>But he endured a night to forget at the Parc des Princes, slamming a 79th-minute penalty against the post, having an 85th-minute header disallowed and being denied on several other occasions in front of goal.</p>
<p>As against Iceland, Portugal completely dominated proceedings, mustering 23 shots to Austria&#8217;s three, but they were unable to find a way past Robert Almer in the Group F clash.</p>
<p>The game was mostly one-way traffic, although Austria passed up a glorious early opportunity when Martin Harnik headed wide in the third minute.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-162.jpeg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-162.jpeg" alt="Portugal vs Austria" width="600" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-92396" /></a></p>
<p>Portugal then took charge and carved out numerous chances.</p>
<p>A miscued clearance by Stefan Ilsanker looped into Nani&#8217;s path but the Portugal forward was unable to put sufficient power and direction on his header.</p>
<p>Nani created another chance himself after skipping past Sebastian Prodl but Almer blocked and then saved Vieirinha&#8217;s follow-up.</p>
<p>Uncertainty crept in at the back for Austria with Martin Hinteregger selling Almer short with a backpass and having the ball blasted back at him by the goalkeeper, at the cost of a corner.</p>
<p>Ronaldo seemed certain to score after a slick move involving Nani and Raphael Guerriero but he remarkably sidefooted wide.</p>
<p>Nani then headed against the post following a short corner and Joao Moutinho blasted over before Ronaldo shot at Almer.</p>
<p>Austria finally got some respite late in the first half and Pepe was booked for felling David Alaba just outside the area, on the right. Alaba whipped in a dangerous free-kick but Vieirinha headed away at the far post.</p>
<p>Austria threatened again after the restart but Rui Patricio saved well from Ilsanker&#8217;s piledriver.</p>
<p>Ronaldo hit an even better shot at the other end but Almer was equal to it, as he was to his header from the resulting corner.</p>
<p>Ronaldo was out of luck again when he sent a free-kick over the bar but worse was to follow for him after he was awarded a penalty following an off-the-ball tussle with Hinteregger late on.</p>
<p>Ronaldo stepped up to take the spot-kick and struck it confidently, but fired it against the upright after going to Almer&#8217;s right.</p>
<p>He thought he had redeemed himself five minutes from time as he rose superbly to head home a free-kick but the flag was raised.<br />
It was not his night and, after two games, Portugal surprisingly have only two points.</p>
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