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Cristiano Ronaldo playing the Coppa Italia final vs Napoli Juventus were beaten yesterday at the Coppa Italia final, and Cristiano Ronaldo's sister Elma blames Juventus coach Maurizio Sarri for the loss against Napoli. Juve star Cristiano Ronaldo has suffered consecutive final losses for the first time in his 18-year-long career. Following the defeat, Elma lept to Ronaldo's defense on Instagram.  She said "What more can you do?   My love, you can't do miracles on your own," she said, referring to her brother. Expressing her displeasure at Sarri's strategy, she said: "I can't understand how you can play like that. Anyway, keep your head up, you can't do anymore." Sarri didn't talk to the players after the defeat but opened up on Ronaldo's drop in form. He told RAI: "He's in the same shape as the others, like Paulo Dybala and Douglas Costa, he is lacking the sharpness to do what works best for him. "I didn't say

Cristiano Ronaldo has been making headlines since yesterday night, and for unheroic reasons. He has been heavily criticized after not stepping up to take a penalty in the Coppa Italia final shoot-out defeat to Napoli. Cristiano Ronaldo is Juventus' best penalty taker but didn't opt to take one after Paulo Dybala and Danilo missed from 12 yards. Many believe he didn't take a penalty because he wanted to be the last to take a penalty (as usual) and ultimately be the hero. Napoli scored all four penalty kicks attempted through Lorenzo Insigne, Matteo Politano, Nikola Maksimovic and Arkadiusz Milik - the latter putting away the winner to secure Gennaro Gattuso's first trophy with Napoli, and the first trophy in six seasons for Napoli. It's not the first time that Ronaldo has opted out of a penalty shootout. He decided not to take a penalty kick while playing for Portugal against Spain at Euro 2012 and against Chile at the Confederations Cup in 2017. For the first ti