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Eventually, it was Eder who stepped up in extra time to rock the host nation and gift the Portuguese with their first ever major tournament victory.
But he couldn't have done it without Ronaldo.
"[Ronaldo] told me I would score the winning goal for the team," the striker told Portuguese newspaper O Jogo. "He gave me this strength, this energy and it was vital. "It was a goal I've been working for from the first minute of the Euros. "For all the work we did, for all of the Portuguese, it's fantastic. It's well deserved and we should all be congratulated."
The confidence Ronaldo provided obviously got through to Eder who professed the prophecy to manager Fernando Santos, who compared the player to an ugly duckling.
"When he came on he told me he would score," Santos said. "The ugly duckling went and scored. Now he's a beautiful swan."

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