++ [ originally posted by Kevin
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That's funny, as my second favorite team is Man United, I have seen all his games and he's been their best player since the last quarter plus of the season winning 8 consecutive MOTM awards or something and deserved his praise. He has also been voted as their best player this season. Even the scousers are starting to admit how good he is (just another one today who's always bitter came over to say "credit where credit's due, he's an amazing talent and if he continues this you'll have a gem on ur hands").
Also, this is on another forum that explains how a winger is not always able to look before he passes:
"I'm surprised that so many people are criticising C.Ronaldo for his "poor crossing".Although his crossing wasn't the greatest,he did have some good crosses and most of them went to the far post.He always had at least a couple of defenders around him when he was crossing the ball and he couldn't take his eyes off the ball to look where to cross.
I would've thought that after the first couple of crosses some of the portuguese players would've realised they need to have someone on the far post although I'm not sure why no one was ever there in the first place anyways
I was much more dissapointed with the strikers positioning and organization rather than with Ronaldo's crossing,is it just me?
I'm not a big fan of C.Ronaldo but after seeing all the replies in this thread bashing him I've decided to post."
It is an atomatism he's learned at United to cross to the second post and if he doesn't have the time to look, that's what he'll do. Even portuguese on their forum admitted there should have been players at the second post and if you check a replay u can see how Pauletta was scolding other players at one point for not being there.
Also, who is your favorite winger? Joaquin? Vicente? Put Joaquin on the left, put Vicente on the right, turn back time for them to 4 years back when they were 19, imagine a european championship held in Spain and they come on to make their debut. Now watch the beautiful crosses fly from their weak leg, I'm sure that's realistic to expect.