2022/01/sundays-joventut-al-qazeres-postponed/” title=”Sunday's Joventut-Al Qázeres postponed”>Cristiano Ronaldo turned 37 years ago a few days ago. He has not scored yet in this 2022. His team, Manchester United, is in depression and his goalscoring drought is the worst in the last thirteen years.
To go back to a darker time of the man who has scored 688 goals in his sports career, you have to go back to before he wore white at Real Madrid.
During his time as “Diablo Rojo” and from mid-November 2008 to the end of January 2009, Cristiano was unmarked. Ten games in total. Nine of them from the Premier League and one from the League Cup.
Aston Villa, Manchester City, Derby County, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, Stoke City, Middlesbrough, Chelsea, Wigan Athletic and Bolton Wanderers. All of them got rid of the Cristiano who was still playing on the sidelines and who would go to Real Madrid a few months later after losing the Champions League final in Rome against his nemesis Leo Messi’s Barcelona.
But Christian already he is not the young man capable of recovering of that drought raising their scoring figures to unsuspected records when they changed airs. Nor is the Premier that he left the same as the one in which he plays now.
The Portuguese’s obsession with taking care of his body, plus having avoided major injuries in his career, has allowed him to extend his football in one of the toughest positions, that of forward. However, the top scorer last season in Italy does not hit the key in England.
Five games without seeing the door for him are too many. Even his coach knows. “Cristiano has to score more,” said Ralf Rangnick before the “7” went scoreless against Southampton.
And despite everything, Cristiano is the team’s top scorer this season, with 14 goals in all competitions. The six goals that he accumulates in his fetish competition especially shine, la Champions League.
That’s where Cristiano’s drought can hit a turnaround. The Portuguese collides in the Champions League with one of the teams to which he has best taken the measure. Atlético de Madrid will receive the “Red Devils” in twelve days, an opportunity for Cristiano to reveal himself against one of the great victims he left in Spain and also in Italy: 25 goals he has scored against the rojiblancos in 35 games.
In their last confrontation, in the 2018/2019 season, they did a “hat trick” already with the Juventus shirt to eliminate them from Europe. His last hat-trick in the competition that he has won five times.
