You ask a man to keep running to receive crosses and yet u don't get crosses to him. How sad.
It wud have been better Ronny is instructed to drop deep like a Kane or Harvetz and be more involved, which he can do.
But u insist he plays like a classical nmba , yet u don't give him d ball.
Germany has a classical nmba called Fullkrug and we saw how Germany fed the man with balls all through this competition and he scored goals. Maybe we can say he was over-fed today sef.
Ronaldo don suffer sha, this na almost see finish(as Waffi calls it). Bcos he knows how to score, dats now d only part coaches value, even in his club. Kai Ronny don suffer sha.
I expect that even if a Leao starts, he shud be ready to switch smoothly with Ronny as the situation demands. Instead if Ronny drifts to d left u go see say most times Leao go still stand for left as if to say, "baba pls vacate this position, na my slot"
In those days if Ronny drifts inside, Benzema will smoothly slide to the left and the attack continues. This Portugal, if Ronny come midfield sef, it's as if d team is saying, "baba nor worry, leave am, enter make we cross for u".
Ok una cross for am na, una no fit.
So yeah it's a team that didn't use him well. Has he declined? Yes he has, but the bigger problem was the coach/players not using him well.
There isn't any "if" inside bcos it was real.
Ronaldo was the best striker on that pitch today, as far as positioning was concerned, but he had poor service mostly.
Then if we go hypothetically or by theory, if a striker isn't getting crosses, it is either a bad cross and/or bad positioning.
France have not scored an open-play goal but are in the semi final.
Once I try school those boys and them no gree ascend to my level of reasoning, I just leave them be.