Cristiano Ronaldo - performances 2017/18
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The teams you support just say it all. Ronaldo has been great so far this game..Yes, it was around that time. Pretty insane that the worse he got as an all-round footballer, the more titles/awards he won. Kudos to his team-mates. Last couple of seasons he has thrived on them and his all-time great off the ball movement.
Hehe easier to write that than explaining to me what exactly has been so great about CRonaldo’s first half?Location:
Norway
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FC Barcelona,Argentina
Yes kudos to this teammates but not him. You are well introduced already.
Not really, your bias is pretty clear.Hehe easier to write that than explaining to me what exactly has been so great about CRonaldo’s first half?
Just don't feed the troll...
This is what I was talking about sometimes back, when people talk about why current players do not have the same myth and aura as older players.
Because despite scoring 2 goals, Cristiano is apparently not having a excellent match because he has not made enough passes, not made more use of his touches, and probably someone has stat about Cristiano loosing possession x times, so he is just lucky to score 2.
I think sometimes it is better look at the game and appreciate rather than nitpicking with stats.
It doesn't matter with these people. His agenda is clear.
yup that is also truth.
Weird timing too, to pop up with three new posts (five total) after having joined in 2013..
When someone has 5 posts in 4 years and they're all about Ronaldo, you can't be surprised that people aren't impressed by your credentials as an impartial observer. People have met that type of poster before and know that explanation is a waste of effort.Hehe easier to write that than explaining to me what exactly has been so great about CRonaldo’s first half?
His consistency is absolutely insane. He's playing top level football since 2003/2004!
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@FC RonaldoMate, no one has ever called him that. Real get fouled closer to the box or within “Ronaldo range” more than the average side, so he hits more freekicks than most players. His ratio of hitting the target seems better recently, but let’s not pretend that there have been several periods in the past 5 seasons where he should have stepped aside.
I know noone's called him that, it was an exaggeration since he regularly gets called a shit free kick taker. That one year where he didn't score a single one aside he's been decent enough at it.
Just depends what constitutes “decent enough”
Let’s be generous and say he gets 1 in 5 on target. That other 80% you have Toni Kroos over some of them lofting it in to Ronaldo and Ramos. What would yield more goals?
His free kicks still look so flukey if we are being honest. He is kicking them through a wall and getting fortunate the bozos in the wall leave so much space inexplicably.
Having said that, his scoring has picked up as of late.
Having said that, his scoring has picked up as of late.
He did step aside from time to time. Both Bale and Ramos were taking free kicks with him on the pitch.
I think he intentionally hit through the ball so credit where it's due ..what player!!!! despite his early struggles in la liga , his stats are pretty good this season and year
I’m calling it now that barring a spectacular individual WC performance from someone, he’ll win his 6th ballon d’or
what about CL ? he needs to win 3rd CL in row to have chance or win WC ...former sounds easier
Real Madrid need to massively pick up though, if they're unsuccessful as far as trophies are concerned chances are very slim.
It depends on where the freekick is taken, it wouldn't make sense to cross it in from central positions or from close distance. It's not like Madrid score a lot of goals from Kroos free kicks either, I don't remember it happening at all recently.
At the end of the day Ronaldo will end his career with probably just a couple of guys having scored more free kicks than him in the history of the game and most likely ahead of specialists like Beckham for example. He can shoot them from wherever he wants with whatever foot he wants as far as I'm concerned.
So when he’s done, would you have him in the top tier of free kick takers in history?
No way, Madrid look poor as hell, scraping by teams as this CWC was a terrible showing from them and they’ve virtually lost the league already.
CL is tougher this year than it has been in a while. If he goes on a huge CL run like last season then maybe, but Madrid and Ronaldo have been scrutinized more this season so far than we have seen in quite some time.
Right now Messi is comfortably ahead of the pack. I see Neymar as his biggest threat.
And they will. I had a PM with a member recently and I compared Real Madrid to Pittsburgh penguins in the NHL. They do enough to make sure they make the playoffs, then last season they destroyed everyone and won the Stanley cup. Real are a couple of favourable results away from being title contenders again, are in the last 16 and now have the confidence of a club world cup win behind them. They’ll grow from here, as will Ronaldo, 100%
Barça winning La Liga and Madrid getting knocked out in the round of 16 seems like the most likely scenario in 2018 after that CL draw so I doubt it.
Not up there with the specialists but just slightly below them imo.
Remains to be seen, they have a very tough draw in 1/8, and Real for some reason seems incapable of properly defending a league title. Winning 3rd CL on a trot might be going a bridge too far, even though it's obviously possible. Don't think winning the CWC means anything, it is a joke competition as far as i'm concerned.
Maybe, but you can’t underestimate the psychological effect that it can have, being able to legitimately call yourself the best team in the world. Sure we are t as a joke but getting that badge on your kit can mean something to some players, and drive them to do better and keep it there.
I tend to see free kicks as one of those stats that must be measured purely on success ratio. If he takes 1000 free kicks in his career, and scores 100, then he’s not at good at free kicks as the guy who takes 50 and scores 10.
Not sure what his overall numbers are.
Dunno, maybe you're right. I never watch it because Euro teams win almost by default. One time I actually turned in was in 2011 when there was a ridiculous hype level with Messi/Neymar going against one another, and then Barcelona absolutely pummels Santos barely breaking a sweat. A pointless competition as long as the South Americans are on this current level (i seem to remember that in precursor competition, the Intercontinental cup SA teams actually have a slight advantage over Europe).
I agree, and I think it’s a pointless competition.
But as a player in a team underperforming domestically, you won’t get much better reminders of your ability than “lads, we just won the club World Cup again, we’re the best team in the world”. I’m going out on a limb, and if I’m proved wrong I don’t mind because I don’t care much for the club, but real are going to make an example of PSG and if they don’t win the league, I bet it goes to the last game of the season. They are in good shape, despite the shortcomings on the pitch.
It shouldn’t really be that simple because the difficulty depends on where the free kick is. But I agree that stats would help a lot in this case
I wouldn't be too surprised TBH, i guess we'll have to wait and see. League is obviously far from over when you haven't reached the halfway point yet. This Barcelona looks annoyingly solid though, if Suarez picks up a shred of form along the way and they integrate Dembele successfully, i'd still have them as favorites. Early days though.
What I’ve never understood about his feeekicks is why he doesn’t hit them with the technique here;
He clearly has the skill. The knuckleball technique is so hit and miss. He’s never came close to hitting it as perfectly as the one v Portsmouth, and I can’t help but think the attention that goal got is detriment to how he deems the best way to take free kicks now. The Sunderland one is better from a skill point of view, though obviously not as pleasing on the eye.