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Cristiano Ronaldo 800 Career Goals Overshadows Messi Ballon d’Or
CR7 has officially become the first football player in history to reach 800 career goals. By this record achievement, Manchester United legend Cristiano Ronaldo’s 800 Career Goals Seem to Overshadow The Weight of Leo Messi’s Two Extra Ballon d’Ors.
It’s a huge milestone. Cristiano Ronaldo’s first goal against Arsenal was the 800th of his amazing senior career. As of December 2, 2021, Lionel Messi’s career goals number 756.
Manchester United’s no.7 tucked home Marcus Rashford’s cross at the start of the second half to bring up the landmark figure.
CR7 is clear of Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi in the overall list of top scorers and continues to do the business at the highest level.
Indeed, he swiftly moved on to 801 with the penalty that took all three points from the 3-2 win over the Gunners.
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115 goals among Ronaldo’s strikes have come at international level for Portugal.
Since starting with Sporting in Lisbon, he now has 483 league goals to his name and 12 for the Reds in all competitions since returning to Old Trafford earlier this season.
- As of December 3, 2021, Ronaldo has 130 goals for United, five for Sporting, 450 for Real Madrid and 101 for Juventus to go with those 115 in Portugal’s colours.
- There have been 140 headers, including the famously brave one against Roma and the recent winner against Atalanta, and 142 penalties.
- Ronaldo fired home 17 penalties and 14 free-kicks in his first spell with us, and some of his most memorable efforts have come from dead balls. The striker’s first spot-kick of his second spell came when Fred was fouled on Thursday night.
- The right-footed strikes means he has 510 from that source and 149 with his left. Hence, Cristiano scores most of his goals with his favored right foot, but he’s always been gifted with both.
- He scored a savage long-distance left-footer against Portsmouth in the 2005/06 season, for example, which won Goal of the Season award that year.
- CR7 has become famous for scoring hat-tricks in his career – with a remarkable 58 across his whole career and 10 in international football alone – he still has just the one for United.
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Ronaldo 800 career goals prove he is the greatest player of all time?
Cristiano Ronaldo put Manchester United 2-1 up against Arsenal at Old Trafford to reach the remarkable 800 goals milestone with a typically cool finish into the bottom corner after finding space inside the box.
Typically, he made it 801 just a few minutes later with a powerful penalty to restore a 3-2 lead for his side after being pegged back.
The 36-year-old’s desire to be acknowledged by all as the greatest player to ever lace up a pair of boots is well-documented and with this feat, few could argue he hasn’t already achieved his aim.
His quest to become a football icon begun just shy of two decades ago, when he notched his first career goal for boyhood club Sporting CP in his home country of Portugal as a teenager.
Few in attendance that day could have predicted that goal would go on to be the first of 800, but such is Ronaldo’s overwhelming confidence he may have had an inkling.
Ronaldo is a legend of Man Utd, Real Madrid, and Juventus: while Messi is only a Barcelona legend
PSG forward Leo Messi spent the majority of his career playing for Barca in Spain.
Ronaldo’s exploits during his first stint at Manchester United and a nine-year stay at Real Madrid are common knowledge, it is important to highlight just how staggering Ronaldo has performed over the last 12 months given any normal player of his age would be showing signs of entering the twilight of their career.
It is abundantly clear Real Madrid’s all-time top scorer is Cristiano Ronaldo, and he is no normal player – instead, a goal-scoring machine who devotes every inch of himself to prolonging an already illustrious career.
The veteran striker CR7 does so with good reason, he clearly still has the edge of over just about every player in world football, outscoring many elite talents a number of years his junior.
From 2018 to the summer of 2021 Ronaldo plied his trade for Italian giants Juventus in a move that many dubbed underwhelming upon his departure from Turin.
This stemmed from Juventus making little secret of the fact they had signed Ronaldo with the main objective of securing the Champions League – something they failed to do during his three years at the club.
That is not to say his own showings were underwhelming however, in fact far from it as Ronaldo notched 101 goals in 134 appearances for the Old Lady.
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There is NO REASON for Gareth Southgate to be linked with the Manchester United job
Gareth Southgate is the only person in the Universe who can turn Manchester United into Middlesbrough within no time
The English media is trying all their best to push Southgate to united, but he is championship level manager at best
The England national team is waay better than this Manu squad, and he has had 0 success ( reaching semis ain’t success). So what exactly are people expecting if he becomes Manu boss
Absolutely no way! Why would Man U hire Southgate? That would be the worse decision in the history of the game.
ETH outwitted Klopp last weekend in one of the best and most dramatic FA cup clashes in years and I’m sorry but Southgate would not have won that game and ETH has had to deal with Ronaldo, Sancho, Greenwood and so on, he deserves more time
Soccer Football – Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag on the pitch before the match REUTERS/Umit Bektas/ File photo
I have been saying this for weeks now. If United were under any other manager especially Southgate, they would be fighting for relegation right now. The problem at United is not Ten Hag but the players.
People keep saying that Ten Hag’s style of football at United is not attractive and no identity but there is so much that a manager can do if the players themselves are not good enough or not putting enough effort. Ten Hag’s Ajax were playing attractive football and he managed to get them to the SF of the CL.
Without him, look at Ajax now. And the media keep pushing their agenda to get Ten Hag sack and replace him with a much worse manager like Southgate. If Ten Hag is managing England right now, with the players they have, we won’t see such a passive football like we saw yesterday vs Brazil. Ask Liverpool fans, would they replace Klopp with Southgate? I rest my case.
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Liverpool only have themselves to blame for loss to Manchester United. Had to find a way to squeeze in the random Bruno slag off in between. Dude was dead on his feet at full time, and had to slot in to center back for the last 30 minutes.
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How come everybody seems to have forgotten that 2 of LFC’s goals were pure luck?
More shots, same shots on goal, higher goal expectancy. What is this narrative that Liverpool should have put this game away, if anything we should’ve put this game away! They had a good 20, 25 minute stint where they kept the ball in the second half, but did nothing with it, we deservedly won this game.
David de Gea is still without a club since leaving Manchester United this summer (Image: Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images)
For Liverpool fans: don’t say that we lost to Manchester United because Jota Trent Alisson and jones didn’t play. We have to stop doing that every time a team loses a big game it’s very stupid because had you won, you wouldn’t be saying that. Don’t forget that when y’all drew 0-0 to them at home Trent Alisson and Jones started. Keep in mind how well they’ve been playing despite having lots of injuries they almost beat Manchester City’s full strength squad last week.
Also, you lose to Manchester United, 2 fringe players for them decided the game for them, Liverpool didn’t play well and a loss is a loss you have to accept it otherwise you’re a sole loser and are unwilling to take it.
It’s interesting how nothing much is said about the mistakes made by Liverpool, but all criticism is piled on Bruno; how supposedly poor he was.
Ten Hag claims United is moving in the right direction 👀 WHAT DIRECTION IS THAT?!
Every time he speaks after a dismal performance after the match I always sit there saying to myself “What on Earth are you talking about”.
The media trying so hard to get ETH sacked…..when liverpool had bad injuries with VVD out, y’all didnt have the same energy
Most fans want ETH out because of his poor tactics and substitutions. I also felt he should be braver to drop non-performing players irrespective of names, and even play academy players if he has to.
Now I’m ETH in because I realise from Rooney’s and Ole’s recent interviews that the mentality of these players are incredibly low and it’s no longer just speculation that the players can’t cope on this stage.
I can understand ETH saying positive things and coming off as “crazy” but if you have players who are weak minded and aren’t willing to fight, you can’t be tough cos they’ll cave and where does that leave you for the rest of the season?! Jason Sancho case in point. I rather come across as insane to the media but hope that I’m lifting the team enough to get a string of performances to save my job and give the fans at least something to cheer about until I can have a summer clear out.
Keane is a freaking legend but that approach with these weak players will kill them and ETH would lose the dressing room.
This man keeps dropping off bombs on and off the field..A gift that keeps on giving..Most delulu man on this green earth
What a GIFT! Hand him a 15 years contract and 5 years add ons
The problem for Utd in recruiting an elite manager in the Summer is that Liverpool, Bayern and Barca will also be looking for new managers.
From the moment I heard “A new era begins. .” from ETH. I knew it was the joke of the century. He has the guts to say it while Klopp/Guardiola are competing against each other by 1 point in the Primer league he acted like he can compete with them ro
