Have you ever wondered what it feels like to actually play with Cristiano Ronaldo? What you go through when the best player in the world is on your team? What you learn from training, playing or even just standing next to the guy who breaks records after records, the guy who is the reigning winner of the Ballon d'Or, the Champions League and the European Championship?

Everyone knows Ronaldo is one of the greatest ever. But expressing what it feels like to play with him is different.

On Tuesday, during his press conference, Portugal manager, Fernando Santos, became frustrated because most of the questions he was asked were about -- surprise -- CR7. He repeated that Portugal was more than Ronaldo, that one player has never won a game on his own.

Santos has a point, of course. Yet, one of the things you get when you play with the superstar is the effect it has on the opposition.

"He is a sort of super X-factor," says Adrien Silva, the Leicester midfielder. "When you are in the tunnel and you look at the players from the other team, you can see that they fear him, that they are scared and impressed. And on the other hand, this feeling boosts our confidence and motivation. You already feel that you have an advantage".

Ronaldo is very much in charge of this Portugal side. "He gives us confidence," says Bernardo Silva. "He always tries to help us, to lead by example. So you just follow him, without even thinking about it. You know that every advice he would give you is the right one. You do what he says without even thinking sometimes. We have so much faith in him. He takes some pressure away from us."