With two
goals to help Real Madrid come from behind to beat Paris St-Germain 3-1 in
their last-16 first-leg tie on Wednesday night, Ronaldo became the first player
to score more than 100 Champions League goals for a single club.
The forward has now scored 21 goals
in his last 12 Champions League games and 11 in seven this season.
And some people think he is on the
decline.
How does he
compare to his rivals?
Ronaldo will be pleased with this
one. He has four more goals for a single club in Europe's elite competition
than Barcelona rival Lionel Messi.
After Messi, no-one is even close to
Ronaldo's goalscoring form in the Champions League:
Most
Champions League goals for a single club
Player Club Goals
Cristiano
Ronaldo Real
Madrid 101
Lionel Messi Barcelona 97
Raul Real Madrid 66
Alessandro
del Piero Juventus 42
Karim Benzema Real Madrid 31
Thomas
Muller Bayern Munich 40
Didier
Drogba Chelsea 36
Ruud van
Nistelrooy Manchester United 35
Thierry
Henry Arsenal 35
Wayne Rooney Manchester United 30
Loving life
in the Champions League
Not yet convinced by Ronaldo's
Champions League majesty? These stats might persuade you:
- Ronaldo has topped the annual
goalscoring charts on the most occasions in Champions League history (6).
- He is also the only player ever to
score 10+ goals in six different Champions League seasons.
- Ronaldo holds the record for the most
goals scored within a Champions League group stage in a single season (11 goals
in 2015-16).
- He is the player with most goals
scored in a single Champions League season (17 goals in 2013-14).
- Ronaldo was the first player to score
in all group stage games within a single Champions League season (nine goals in
2017-18).
May as well
have a team of Ronaldos?
Incredibly, according to sport
statisticians Gracenote, Ronaldo has scored more Champions League goals on his
own than 87% of teams to have ever played in the competition.
Including the 15 Champions League
goals he scored for Manchester United before joining Real Madrid, Ronaldo has
scored a total of 116 in the Champions League. That's 19 more than any other
player (Messi, of course) and more than 118 of the 137 teams that have ever
appeared in the main competition.
An
incredible record.
'He lives
for the penalty area'
Ronaldo's latest two goals in the
Champions League were a penalty and a close-range finish. In fact, the vast
majority of his goals in the competition have been scored inside the box.
"Ronaldo now has 101 Champions
League goals for Real Madrid, and it sounds churlish to say but he didn't have
a great game," said Spanish football writer Andy West on BBC Radio 5 live.
"That's what he does now, not
the Premier League box-to-box player we saw, he lives for the penalty area, and
that's how he can extend his career, now in his 30s."
Benzema -
Ronaldo's best mate?
Ronaldo
and Karim Benzema have been Real Madrid team-mates since 2009
Despite the fact Karim Benzema did
not make a single pass to Ronaldo against Paris St-Germain, he has assisted more
Ronaldo goals in the Champions League for Real Madrid than anyone else - 11.
Gareth Bale is second on the list with seven, with Marcelo on six.
They were Ronaldo's first two goals
against Paris St-Germain for Real Madrid, in his third appearance. His most
successful opposition for Real Madrid in the Champions League is surprisingly
Bayern Munich (nine goals in six games).
He has scored seven against each of
Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Ajax and Schalke - the latter three at a rate of
more than one a game.
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