Ronaldo Scores 80th Minute Winner | Portugal v Ghana | 2014 FIFA World Cup

It's time to get out the pocket calculators. Group G comes to the boil in Brasilia and Recife today, with Portugal and Ghana trying to press the finishing tape and nick a place in the last 16 of the World Cup. In Brasilia, the centre-back at the moment. Pepe's going to get booed every time he touches the ball. The defender was just sent off against Germany. Portugal looking slightly sharper, if anything, at the moment. Cristiano Ronaldo! Off the bar. I'm not sure he intended to go for goal there, but Cristiano Ronaldo flew that ball in over the top of goalkeeper De Oderer, and it wasn't intended as a cross, it would have been one of the most spectacular goals of the 2014 World Cup Finals from a man who does know the way to the net for club and country. And Cristiano Ronaldo wants his 50th goal for his country. De Odere in goal, and half a dozen in white shirts there to try and deny him. The familiar poise, the stance, the look, is there the finish? There was, but this time it's dealt with by De Oderer. The wait goes on with William. He had a terrific debut season in Portugal. He's just about managed to release João Pereira here. Portugal have plenty forward, it is Ronaldo! What a save! A point-blank save, and De Odere's reaction tells you that he's just made the save of his life. He's leaping around still, as if to say, I am the man, and he was at that moment. De Odere. You cannot believe that Cristiano Ronaldo has not scored his 50th goal for Portugal. Can't take it either. It shouldn't be 0-0 anymore, Jean at the one end, Ronaldo at the other, two of the most prolific marksmen in international football should both have their names on the score sheet by now. Like any game, it needs a goal, and it might come, you never know, from this free kick for Ghana. It's going to be left-footed from Asamoah. He's had a wonderful season at Juventus, won a couple of Scudettos there, it's the... Good ball in! Trying by goalkeeper Beto. No great power in Jean's header. Ghana's first, here we saw Asamoah got in here with a looping header. Not strong enough to trouble Beto, the Sevilla goalkeeper. Willian. Veloso. And now he'll have to race back, calmly taken down by Juarez. It breaks to Ayoub. His brother Jordan is on the bench today, Ayoub... Well, he found a friend, but the friend was the referee. Looking to pass the ball into the wider position there. And they will be furious if Portugal get something here. Ronaldo showed too much of the ball again. Now Veloso. Broke handily there for Moutinho, who juggles, who chinks his way through, delivers the ball. Veloso's cross in! Sliced into his own goal! It's under John Boy. 30th minute, Harrison a full-drags John Boy to his feet. To say, forget it, it's happened, we can do nothing about it. It's Portugal 1-0 Ghana, and this World Cup has another own goal. It started with one from Marcelo of Brazil. And that's definitely an OG from JB. How unfortunate is that? It slices away, he's acrobatic, and he can't see it himself, he probably didn't know where it had gone. The rules told him. The ball in from Miguel Veloso, and this game explodes into goal-scoring life in the most unusual way. Portugal 1-0 Ghana. Portugal are looking again here now. He'll lift, and it is Ronaldo. He'll try and work the situation for the strike on goal. Once again he finds a worthy opponent in Douda. Here goes Ronaldo, a shimmy, he knew exactly what was coming, and so did goalkeeper Douda. Preferred to Raul Morelis today. At long last the ball does go as far as Ronaldo. Then to Hedea, now for Nani. A lot of white shirts around in here, but there will be some gaps. Here's another shooting chance, and it's driven into the side netting by Ruben Amorim. He shakes his head, no wonder Amorim has never found the net for Portugal. This is his 31st game for them. It's 1-0, it could have been 2-0. Portugal are the happier of the two, John Boy isn't happy at all. Portugal 1-0 Ghana. Ghana, though, whose fans will have been informed of no doubt of that scoreline from Recife, might get an equaliser. Here they have it! Boasian, who scores for Ghana and keeps their dream alive. He becomes a record-maker as an African goalscorer in World Cup finals as well. It's his sixth, his second of these finals. Beto was beaten and he had no hope in trying to keep at what becomes a 42nd international goal for Ossamuasian. Portugal 1, Ghana 1. And a goal joyously greeted, I have no doubt, in Africa. Here's Ayoub, sets foot. Ayoub, he's had a great World Cup and he's found Jian here. Danger to that Portuguese defence again here now from Ayoub. And what a miss! What a miss that could have made it 2-1 to Ghana, which could have been all the difference between them going through a nut. Juarez flinging himself into the header at the back post. It's Jian holding his head in his hands here. There's nothing wrong with the cross from right in front of the Portuguese net. Majid Juarez blows his lines. Nami just about keeps this one in and he'll aim it across there. Almost some confusion between goalkeeper and defenders. Maybe there, Ronaldo! It's the end of Guard's ambitions now, because Cristiano Ronaldo has smashed in Portugal's second with just over ten minutes remaining. There were two defenders, there was one goalkeeper who poured it out, Ronaldo smashed it back in. And at long, long last he has a World Cup goal in Brazil. And the goalkeeper helpless to keep this one out. It defied everything else Ronaldo had thrown at him, but on this occasion the left boot of the master striker hits the net. Portugal 2, Ghana 1. Ghana must not give in now, and they don't, and they fall forward here as well. Big shooting chance, it's gone a foot wide of the upright No more from the left boot of Wokasso. He's only just come on as a substitute about a minute earlier, and Wokasso nearly made himself a big Ghanaian hero. And it's Cristiano Ronaldo now, trying to finish on a note of glory for Portugal. And he's foiled once again, and all dribbles wide. Easy to say he should have had a hat-trick today. William for Portugal. Is this a third? It's gone over the top. Unbelievably from no more than three yards out, Cristiano Ronaldo hoofs it over the top of the crossbar. And maybe it sums up Portugal's exit from these World Cup finals. He should have had four goals today, he might yet have another one. It is Ronaldo again. To say this has not been Cristiano Ronaldo's day would be an understatement. I was just saying he could have had three or four, make that five. It's all over here, it's all over in Recife as well. Germany have beaten the United States of America by a goal to the mill, and top group G. But Cristiano Ronaldo's goal at least won three points for Portugal today. He missed countless chances, as Samuel Gyan was on the mark for Ghana in the second half, but the final score in Brasilia is Portugal 2, Ghana 1.