Cristiano Ronaldo (106 Viewers)

The Quazis

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Dec 21, 2012
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Sarri needs to learn to start using ronaldo head more and start putting more crosses into the box, not everything must go through the middle if its not working switch it up and use it. Its a crime that under Sarri it not used more as its one of hes main advantages at hes late age and i was actually surprised the number of crosses that went in yesterday because it rarely happens with hes football but good crossing usually comes from fullbacks these days and danillo is complete trash so that only leaves sandro to be fair..
Cuadrado is our first choice RB.
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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He's scored 10 in 14 this season. He's hitting his Real Madrid form.
lol

He has 12 goals - 1 assist in 20 appearances between league and CL. 1757 minutes played. Goal or assist every 135 minutes.

For reference, he had 27 goals - 10 assists in 40 appearances last year. 3438 minutes played. Goal or assist every 93 minutes.

He’s looking better the last few matches, but he’s nowhere near last year’s form yet, let alone Real Madrid.
 
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james95

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Sep 2, 2018
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I think that's too harsh. In my opinion lack of quality crosses hasn't been an issue. It was him missing open headers.
Really? There’s almost never a good ball put into the box for him to score from. I can’t think of many if any open headers he’s missed. Even the ones he’s actually scored from were headers that not many others would score from. Our delivery into the area on aerial balls isn’t good at all, generally speaking.
 

Vlad

In Allegri We Trust
May 23, 2011
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I think that's too harsh. In my opinion lack of quality crosses hasn't been an issue. It was him missing open headers.
Imagine if he had 100% conversion rate. He could have scored 30 instead of 28 goals last year... :boh:

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Really? There’s almost never a good ball put into the box for him to score from. I can’t think of many if any open headers he’s missed. Even the ones he’s actually scored from were headers that not many others would score from. Our delivery into the area on aerial balls isn’t good at all, generally speaking.
Especially this season when most of our play goes through the middle. Then in one game AS makes a good cross and CR scores header of a century. Imagine he recieved few of those each match...
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
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I think that's too harsh. In my opinion lack of quality crosses hasn't been an issue. It was him missing open headers.
We barely cross/use width with Sarri ball, and only wide threat has been Cuadrado and he is ridiculously erratic and flat out poor crosser.

Ronaldo has been missing good chances, but rarely been on headers...ita clear on game to game basis we rarely create open chances often for him or any other attacker this season. Slow moving possession in midfield that's easy to read, with you know who in AM most of the season and CMs that cant create. What you get is generally hitting a wall of defenders or creating half chances with aimless random efforts. We rarely try to find him with good crosses...


Sandro had 2 cross assists in 1 game last, and he rarely gets to attack and cross in his flank with how centralized Sarri likes him to play. Defenitely could use him more wide.



It's no surprise our chance creating has up itself by alot now that all 3 attackers play together, and are constantly finding each other.


It will be even better when Cuadrado is back and gives us an unpredictable element with overlapping runs.
 

Karim30

Allegri is back, life is back.
May 6, 2012
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If my calculations are not wrong he has 39 calendar year goals in 2019 with club and Country, so he needs a goal tomorrow to reach his minimum standard of 40 goals
 

Stevie

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Mar 30, 2003
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I expect him to be a beast in this game. Although it's not the biggest final he lives for these kind of games and if he needs that goal he will kill himself to get it.
 

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