After Portugal's victory over Switzerland, manager Santos declared that Ronaldo's problems had been overcome and that they will always have a strong relationship.

Lusail (Qatar), December 7: Portugal boss Fernando Santos stated that his problems with Cristiano Ronaldo have been solved and that he will always have a close relationship with the star striker after his team's thumping victory over Switzerland in their round of 16 FIFA World Cup match.Portugal defeated Switzerland 6-1 at Lusail, Qatar, on Wednesday, completing their FIFA World Cup quarterfinals with a hat-trick by 21-year-old Goncalo Ramos and goals from Pepe, Raphael Guerreiro, and Rafael Leao.Ronaldo's problems with him have been resolved, according to him.I repeat myself from my previous press conference, it is something that has been completed and solved, Santos told Sky Sports.

I think we should just think about the team individually.I have a close relationship with him and have since he was 19 years old at Sporting.Since he began to work with the national team, this friendship only continues to grow.We never misinterpret the human and personal relationship between manager and player.The coach continued, I will always consider my role to be a very important player to have in the team.

Despite the angle, Goncalo Ramos, the man who had replaced Ronaldo, came through with a ferocious near-post drive, which ended up finding the net.Ramos made good use of Joao Felix's pass.Switzerland was concerned in the 25th minute when defender Fabian Schar fell on the ground and needed some attention.Shaqiri took a free kick and whipped a fine effort over the Portuguese wall, seemed to be heading towards the post, but Portugal keeper Costa took no risks and collected the ball in the 33rd minute.Pepe doubled Portugal's lead in the 33rd minute.

Portugal continued to dominate proceedings.The referee issued a yellow card to Swiss player Fabian Schar for a late foul on Felix, and neither team took advantage.At halftime, the scoreline read 2-0 in favor of Portugal, who also dominated ball possession with 53% as opposed to Swiss 47%.Portugal had six shots on target, while Switzerland took four.Ramos continued his dream run in the game in the 51st minute when Diogo Dalot drilled the ball into the near post and Ramos fired it through Yann Sommers legs to make it 3-0.He scored a brace for Portugal, but Raphael Guerreiro added to the Swiss pile of miseries in the 56th minute by taking full advantage of space left by Swiss right-back Fernandez.

With the help of Manuel Akanji, Switzerland opened their scoring spree in the 58th minute, with the scoreline reading 4-1.However, there was clearly a lot more work to be done.Eray Comert of Switzerland was booked for a foul in the 59th minute, but Ramos' brilliant finish saw the ball past Sommer to not only make it 5-1 in favor of Portugal, but also bring up his hat-trick, the first in the 2022 edition of the tournament.Portugal made three changes in the 72nd minute, with Ronaldo, Vitinha, and Felix replacing hat-trick hero Ramos.

Portugal fired 14 shots at their target, nine of which were on target.The Swiss made ten shots at goal, of which three were on target.