The worst Christian in the last 15 years

When talking about negative notes on Cristiano Ronaldo you have to do it on nuances, and moreover, in a situation of instability and uncertainty about his future the Portuguese lived. So many years at such a high level that any negative dynamics, however slight, point to the Portuguese’s performance. With this mitigating factor of uncertainty and the lack of confidence of Erik Ten Hag -translated into minutes of play-, the first four days of the Premier have been sold out without any goal from CR7.

Disregarding this season’s injury or suspension absences, it has been 15 years since Ronaldo missed his first four league games no marks You need to get back on course 08/07 -in his first spell at Old Trafford-, to see the Portuguese locker in white in a campaign in which he ended up celebrating 31 goals in the Premier to increase his first golden ball also in the last course United lifted the Champions.

However, Cristiano was spared the few minutes he played, with one starting role – the day of the beating he suffered against Brentford (4-0)-, in four games. Substitute in victories over Liverpool and Southampton to play just 4 and 22 minutes, the striker’s accumulated minutes played remain at 153. We have to go back to the 05/06 campaign -only his second year as a ‘red devil’-, to recall the start of the league where the Portuguese got fewer minutes: 116 from that beginning.

In relation to the short playing time, there is another negative record that Cristiano got rid of, since he was 10 years that CR7 is not chained two consecutive substitutions in the league The last time this happened was in the 12/13 season, at Real Madrid, when the Portuguese came off the bench in games against Sporting and Barca between the end of February and the beginning of March 2013. Contrary to Ten Hag’s technical reasons, these successive substitutions were due to Jose Mourinho’s desire to rest the Portuguese, as the Whites had to deal with. five games in three weeks between the League and the Champions League and the priority is the highest continental competition.

Barça was already very far from the domestic championship and even after the victory in that Clásico (2-1) remembered the angry protests of Valdés at the end for an unsigned penalty on Adriano, the whites saw those from uncle vilanova still at 10 points. So ‘Mou’ wants to reserve Cristiano to have him at his peak -what things-, against himself United in the round of 16 tie won by Madrid in the final year of Alex Ferguson.

After the episode of tension between Ten Hag and Cristiano that the English press heard this week, the Dutch coach tried to soften the situation with the appearance after the victory in Southampton. “We want him to stay” assured the former Ajax coach. However, these words do not match the little game time he has given a player of Cristiano’s ancestry in the last two games.

In Naples Y Sporting Lisbon sounding like definitive destinations, what at first was just the whim of playing in the Champions League seems to have become an accentuated necessity due to the proximity of the World Cup for a CR7 who wants to shout to the world that it is not over, because his numbers of the past year was at the height of the great scorers of the era in his prime.