Has anyone found the cap to close the bottle of ketchup? Opponents of Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League this season still seek. It was six years ago when he had to explain a personal dry spell with the Portuguese selection, the Real Madrid striker had compared the efficacy in football at the famous sweet sauce made from tomato “the goal is like ketchup: when they arrive, they all come together. “ insatiably Illustrating his comparison, that it sickens opposing defenses since September 2015 and the start of the most prestigious European Cups.
16 goals
the addition is salty and figures give dizzy. Before facing, Tuesday, April 26, Manchester City in the semifinals, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 16 goals in 10 European matches. As many as all players of City gathered in the same period. The top scorer of Citizens, the Belgian Kevin de Bruyne in himself is three achievements.
on the continental stage, statistics draw a clear dependence of the Real vis-à-vis its triple Ballon d’or. By itself, Ronaldo weighs almost two thirds of the goals of “Casa Blanca” in the European Cup (61.5% to be precise). The performance is as follows: a quad, two triplets, two doubles, two games to one goal every three games and “virgins”. When added four assists, the Portuguese is directly involved in twenty of the twenty-six goals of his team
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Of the four teams still in contention, none has so dependent attack of one man. Certainly, the French Antoine Griezmann has still scored 50% of their goals Atlético Madrid (6 of 12) but his team is much less prolific. The football fans who are not content to accumulate figures have beautiful game to underline that football is not just aligning individual stats. They are right. The provision of Karim Benzema in the collective fluidity of Real should not be underestimated, for example. And yet.
In the quarterfinals on April 12, when returning to face Wolfsburg game, while Madrid were back from two goals difference, it’s a hat-trick and the inevitable Ronaldo his individual accomplishments that helped topple a well compromised situation. Zinedine Zidane was the boast of the collective merits – “Cristiano needs of the team. He needs others to do what he does. I’m very happy with what the players have done together “, said after meeting French – the scorer of the evening had to offer a demonstration of its decisive importance in the offensive game around. And perhaps, too, further evidence that the results of the Real are often indexed to the performance of its star
Champions League. The crazy “remontada” Ronaldo and Real Madrid
as soon as Ronaldo scored a goal in the champions League this season, the Real is needed (seven wins in as many games). But the three meetings during which the Portuguese has remained silent, the end result appears much more uncertain (one win, one draw, one defeat).
Thirty four straight games in the league in all
Ronaldo has not saved in recent months. Contracture his right thigh in injury time of a folded match against Villareal (3-0), Wednesday, April 20, which prevented him playing against Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, was worried the Spanish press. And noted, in passing, a staggering statistic: in thirty-four championship days – to 31 goals – striker played 3060 minutes. Get out your calculator, multiply 34 by 90 and you will understand. Ronaldo had hitherto not missed a single minute since the start of the La Liga season (extra time does not count)
In the champions League, are things different? Not really. On 17 February, at the eighth-finals against AS Rome, Zinedine Zidane left the blow by asking him to join the bench to rest, the … 89 th minute.
Apart from this episode, the Portuguese played all the other meetings. In ten European games, he has accumulated 899 minutes of play, more than any other outfield player, before Zlatan Ibrahimovic (880) and Antoine Griezmann (843). It ran 92,637 meters, more than two marathons.
would it not make more breathing space? “I do not know why everyone wants to save , Zidane replied to reporters after the announcement of the thigh strain striker. (…) He wants to play all the time, every game. There are players who need to blow, it was my case. But he did not need. From time to time, okay, if he needs it, but he did not need it and it’s great like that. “
On Tuesday night, Ronaldo should studded shoes back to try to panic again statistics. In a corner of his head should trotting scoring record (17) registered in a single edition of the Champions League and he has not beaten. A record that belongs to a certain … Cristiano Ronaldo.
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