Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo announced on Wednesday that he had left the team’s training camp in Denmark after coach Jorge Jesus told reporters that the striker would be dropped for their next match against Denmark. Ronaldo had been due to train with his teammates at the Parken stadium here on Wednesday but left abruptly after Jesus’s press conference.

The veteran coach had said that Ronaldo, who spent the entire match on the bench against Norway on Sunday, would not start Thursday’s clash either.