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During his first season at Juventus Turin, Cristiano Ronaldo had a difficult start, which could be explained by the change of context, from the more open Liga to the very tactical Serie A, but also by his participation in the Coupe du world 2018 the previous summer. But once his cruising speed was found, he invited Lionel Messi to join him, to try the adventure far from the comfort of Barcelona. Fortunately, the Argentine did not listen to him because, today, the record of the Portuguese is mixed.
Three seasons with less than 40 goals in Italy!
The Gazzetta dello Sport sums up the problem very well: “for its standards, the CR7 season is a flop while for us, it’s a flop”. In Serie A, the five-time Ballon d’Or scored 26 goals, 6 better than Romelu Lukaku (Inter), and he goes to his first capocannoniere trophy, four days from the end. That would satisfy most of the players on the planet, but not him …
Because for the third season in a row, CR7 should not reach the 40-goal mark in all competitions. He had finished 2018/19 with 28 goals, 2019/20 with 37 and he is at 34 today. At Real Madrid, it hadn’t happened to him once, even in his first year, in 2009/10. La Gazzetta wonders if this is a symptom of the decline of a great champion. We could rather see a lack of emulation in Italy while in Spain, Lionel Messi forced him to score every weekend, and rather twice than …
Ronaldo: by his standards a flop season, for us a top: never so few goals (34) since … #juve # CR7 https://t.co/kvxOpxOFkJ #serieA
– The Gazzetta dello Sport (@Gazzetta_it) May 4, 2021
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