not directly imo, but this portugal team was clearly more feisty and aggresive than other far more talented portugal teams, a bit of ronaldo's personality was definitely in this team and it showed when they needed it most. People fail to realize that you don't need to score 7 goals against trash to be the best, you need to score that ONE goal against the 2nd best. That's why TRUE winners always do it on the biggest stages, with luck, with hard work, playing dirty, with leadership, with whatever it takes tbh. That's why germany always does well at tournaments, we just go out there and do whatever it takes, even if we never had all star teams like italy/france/spain/brazil/argentina.
Imo missi would EASILY be the GOAT if he'd play with some balls tbh. So I can understand why some would pick ronaldo as the better big game player, even though right now he's getting old and he's more of a poacher on the field, he plays his heart out in big games. My top 3 are : zidane (tactical skill of a puppet master, finesse of a ballerina, heart of a fanatic, stats simply don't show what he did on the field, he'll even be a good coach), maradona (peak diego was just a slightly less skilled missi with heart
) and missi (right now vs maradona he is kinda like lebron vs jordan .. needs a miracle after many chokes).