Still hope he can get to 150 United goals. Not sure where he’s at now, 144? Just because I’m a sentimental sod.
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It’s going to be a long October for us. We are going to play 9 games this month. Impossible we let Ronaldo play most of it, but with Martial injuries (again) it looks like we don’t have much of a choice.
Much, much better from him. Dreaded seeing him come on after his last match in the Europa league but it was a good performance today. Took two chances away from Bruno when he shouldn’t have, but scored a nice goal and his running and overall play was good.
He did well last night, especially after the goal. I hope that goal was the spark he needed.
8 games into the season? Bit premature.
i thought it was the complete opposite - he worked his ass off for the team. So much negativity for nonsense.
I actually thought this was one of Ronaldos better games for us in a while. Great goal, always a threat and during build up play he was also very good and didn't lose possession too much at all. Some lovely passing. Good game from the old fella.
If he leaves in January, there’s a month left til the World Cup break
Did you see his reaction when Rashford finished off his mishit midweek? Seemed a bit off I thought.
You keep ignoring the fact he went on strike in the summer and didn't report for preseason. He trained in Portugal while his agent tried to flog him to all and sundry. It leaves a bad taste and is why the analogy of Ronaldo being the doting, loving wife for 50 years doesn't add up at all.
That's a big if - considering he couldn't find a club in this summer and we are short of strikers. He could have 30-40 games left easily.
I said after Ronaldo's showing in Cyprus that I was worried about him not even hitting the target, but that he'd gone through a similar run last winter and picked it up in Spring. Hopefully this goal against Everton will get him going on a little run. It was a very well taken goal. Just wish he had managed to get himself onside for the Bruno goal that was chalked off.
In this analogy did this wife also left you ages ago accusing you of treating her as a slave?
It’s a bit weird, although completely expected, that you can’t criticize a player because he’s an all-time great or because he has scored a winner (and you should celebrate that while not noting the rest of the game) — and if you do, you’re a hater. People even tried to praise his Thursday performance, ffs. He has scored a great goal and we’re all happy that he did, but this shouldn’t exempt his from any criticism.
The standards of his off the ball work are also quite dire — if this is a good defensive performance, like many on here claim, I don’t know what isn’t. He barely participated in any pressing (Bruno had to do the work for two players), which is the most important thing for our football under Ten Hag, won 1 tackle and made 2 defensive headers. Is it more than he usually does? Yes. Is it a good performance off the ball? Absolutely not.
That’s the problem with these Ronaldo threads, sure some people might be too negative (but understandable given how he treated the club and results with him since he joined) but there are also 4-5 posters after every game seem to invent their own game or share Ronaldo fan PR accounts.
Casemiro wins man of the match from BT Sport (not saying it was a perfect game) but people will say ‘sloppy’ or pick out errors in his performance without throwing around ‘hater’ tags at any criticism.
His all-round game being really good in the last two matches makes me even more disappointed that he fecked around pre-season and clearly wasn't fit for the opening day. He can still contribute a lot playing like this.
He cost us a great chance but did score a great goal. Best performance so far.
My favourite part about having Ronaldo in the team is that he can be utterly abject for 6 months and score a single winning goal and all the fanboys will suddenly come out of the woodwork to proclaim him the current GOAT.
Ronaldo is Ronaldo. He has lost a step or two and he is not the GOAT anymore. In form, he is still a formidable player though. Yesterday was by far his best performance of the season so far, and that is a good thing. Like it or not. We still need him. Martial is made of glass and Rashford is inconsistant. I liked Ronaldo dropping deep and linking up against Everton on occasion. It was a mature display, bar the stupid header where Bruno was perfectly positioned. Much improved. Welcome back. P.S. ....and get the feck out of those offside-positions! That is so annoying.
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The standards plummet when it comes to judging Cristiano's performances. A one on one finish is treated as spectacular and "goat level" and the bare minimum he should be doing interms of working hard to win the ball is praised through the roof.
The fanboyism is nauseating.
The fanboyism is nauseating.
Can those who dislike Ronaldo stay off this thread? Let the ones who want to have proper constructive feedback post here.
Looking at his performance, i am more impressed that he has adapted his game to make tackles and press, though it is at a lower level compared to the others (e.g. Bruno). Considering his age, that is quite decent.
He needs some improvement on his decision making on some of the passes, otherwise it was a very good performance for someone who is adapting to a completely different style of play.
Looking at his performance, i am more impressed that he has adapted his game to make tackles and press, though it is at a lower level compared to the others (e.g. Bruno). Considering his age, that is quite decent.
He needs some improvement on his decision making on some of the passes, otherwise it was a very good performance for someone who is adapting to a completely different style of play.
Saw a comment on facebook
"Ronaldo celebration was the best ever. He was thankful to god for bringing 700th goal into his life now he is RETURNED to his best form like Madrid 26 years old body and MENTALITY. Varane Casemiro Ronaldo back to Madrid best"
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
"Ronaldo celebration was the best ever. He was thankful to god for bringing 700th goal into his life now he is RETURNED to his best form like Madrid 26 years old body and MENTALITY. Varane Casemiro Ronaldo back to Madrid best"
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
You mean Man Utd fans isn’t allowed to hope he regain his form and kick start his season from here, after witnessing our only other option Martial getting injured yet again?
Besides, any player hitting historical new milestone of 700th club goal deserved to be appreciated abit for sure.
Why needed to always fuel yourself with so much hatred and spread toxicity everywhere?
He's still finished at this level and ideally for us.
He played the centre forward role well. Held it up, came deep to get the ball, won headers at both ends of the pitch, pressed (ok not that much, but he’s 37 and playing his 2nd game in 4 days) and tackled a few times… and scored the winning goal.
I’m not his biggest fan usually, but I don’t think we could realistically ask for much more.
I’m not his biggest fan usually, but I don’t think we could realistically ask for much more.
I would say that there are so many people with a negative agenda against Ronaldo, that anybody with a positive opinion on Ronaldo is bound to be seen as a Ronaldo fan PR account.
I say agenda as all of those posters bashing Ronaldo are basing their facts on articles which are not proven to be true. In fact, the only truth about Ronaldo during the summer was that he was facing a difficult family situation which almost resulted in him leaving. Otherwise everything else was false. Unfortunately those posters just wanted something to bash Ronaldo, even if it was fake.
Technically speaking, and by definition, it’s not a strike if the club allows it/accept his reasons for it. But we can speculate all day and call it a strike if you wanted. Saying that the lack of preseason is all down his fault though, which badly affects his early season form.
My favorite part are embarrassing posts like this one.
Just as nauseating as the people who come in here saying how bad of a game he had, despite him being absolutely on point with his first touch passing all game, heading the ball into Rashford for the disallowed goal, pressing, dropping back, tackling and winning several balls on the defensive phase, etc. Not to mention that, well, he scored the winning goal.
It's not a one way hyperbole in this thread. It's both ways.
Edit: My analysis of yesterday's game, and broadly speaking, is that I expected a game like this to come very soon for Ronaldo. I'm very attentive to details with this guy, and he did have nightmare games until a couple weeks ago, but I was really pretty sure he had kicked it up a notch on physical levels in the game against Spain and in the Europa League game. For me, Ronaldo has always been about maximizing every step he takes to score a goal, that means pinpoint accuracy on movements, timings, body positioning, split stepping, and they all seemed much better in these last 2 games before yesterday. Namely, the last chance he got against Spain and Omonoia were quite telling for me, sure, the keeper saved the former, and he missed the goal latter's shot, but everything about those plays were perfect in execution, and up to the standard I do believe he still has. So it's not surprise to me he kept this broader level going into yesterday's game, and the goal he scored is just exactly what I expect from him. First touch was just perfect, then controls the ball twice in a split second to adjust it's course, shot is perfect, pace, timing of the run, etc. He has not had that gassed look for a couple weeks now, and even at the 94th he sprinted hard to impede a shot from an Everton's player and would've gotten there if the referee wasn't in the way.
All in all I was expecting a game like this to happen. Ronaldo missing chances is not a concern for me, him not getting chances is concerning, because either he's not well with his body or the team is lacking in the attacking phase. Best game of the season so far for him for way more reasons than just scoring. Good game from him, not incredible, but certainly not a bad game.
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Horrible post, claiming that Ronaldo would rather score a hat trick in a defeat than not scoring in a win. It’s always appropriate to criticize a player’s performance and it’s always appropriate to question a player’s character when the facts support the criticism (Joey Barton, Luis Suarez and Mario Balotelli come to mind) but to flog Ronaldo for putting padding his stats above team victories is out of order.
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Did he go on strike? You sure about the details?
You don't have to believe every article out there.
But in anycase, humans make mistakes, so do footballers. Lots have done so, it doesn’t mean you have to compromise all the good stuff he's done.
If that's happening its not my view.
My point was simply that I'm surprised at the level of dislike some Utd fans hold for a player like Ronaldo. He's done some things wrong but jeez, some of you are far too sensitive.
A poster in a different thread did a player rating after the Everton game. Came to Ronaldo and criticised him. No mention of him scoring the winning goal.
How do you do a player rating and fail to mention the player won the game for us?
Or you can carry on pointing out a guy nearly 38 doesn't press much.
Openly hoping a United player fails. You’re not a United fan. Also might want to google what finished means.
Remember last season he was in shocking form over the Christmas period, and then he scored vs Brighton and then literally carried the team from there with his goals.
Seeing him take those chances from Bruno was frustrating as hell, but hopefully we see less of that now that he's got his goal finally.
Seeing him take those chances from Bruno was frustrating as hell, but hopefully we see less of that now that he's got his goal finally.
Think you're confusing hoping a player fails with believing a player is finished.
Being shit whole season, wanting desperately to leave the club (for 2nd time), refusing to train, being selfish on the pitch, killing the mood in and around the club.....all is forgotten because of one bloody goal.
Fanboying at its best.
Fanboying at its best.
Are we supposed to be sad and angry and ask for him to be sent to reserves for scoring a goal? If you haven't noticed, we need goals and we haven't signed any good strikers.
We have no choice but hope that Cristiano, however selfish or childish, shocks us all with lots of goals.
By the way, I think "killing the mood in and around the club" part is just media nonsense.
Ffs the discourse in the media after his first good game in months is nauseating. He has been garbage in every game, that's why he hasn't played. These guys talking as if he must start as if he's still a top player, but clearly haven't watched him.
He can be a useful squad player, provided he accepts that his best option is to take a back seat, be a leader, be a mentor, and work hard in the time he gets. But we are miles better with Martial in his place, and will need a striker in January anyway since Ronaldo can't really do it bar the odd game like yesterday.
He can be a useful squad player, provided he accepts that his best option is to take a back seat, be a leader, be a mentor, and work hard in the time he gets. But we are miles better with Martial in his place, and will need a striker in January anyway since Ronaldo can't really do it bar the odd game like yesterday.
How did he celebrate his goal for those who saw it? Did he do the SIUUU?
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