Iran 1-1 Portugal: 5 Talking Points, World Cup 2018

#4 Ricardo Quaresma with the spectacular!

Quaresma with the outside of the boot finish, from outside of the box.

The mercurial wide-man was drafted into the starting lineup by Fernando Santos in place of the Manchester City man, Bernardo Silva, after he'd missed out on a spot in the starting lineup for the first two games.

The winger is one of the most paradoxical players in modern football. Utterly devastating one moment and unbelievably non-existant in the other. For all his undeniable talent, it is his inability to reproduce that talent on a consistent basis that has resulted in him being shoved into oblivion.

We have seen some scintillating magic from Quaresma, but he came up with something even more special to open the scoring for Portugal.

The first half was petering out and he looked irritable at how little of the ball he had seen so far and decided to take matters into his own hands when he did finally receive it. He exchanged passes with Adrien Silva on the edge of the box on the right and decided to curl the ball with his outside of the boot first-time, past the keeper in goal, into the top-left corner. A magnificent trivela from a sensational talent.

Pity, we haven't seen an awful lot of that from him in his career.