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How Dangerous are Cristiano Ronaldo Free Kicks Today? Stats Reveal Shocking Truth

Published 01/24/2022, 3:25 PM EST

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Cristiano Ronaldo is an unbelievable player, and even at 36, he is playing at the highest level. Ronaldo returned to Manchester United, his boyhood club, this season, and has put in some performances that defy all logic and sense.

He has been the club’s top scorer this season, but all hasn’t been well. United had been going through a rough phase and they had to sack Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after a horrible start in the Premier League that saw them sit as low as 7th place in the table this season.

However, things are beginning to look good again after United recorded back-to-back victories against Brentford and West Ham. Ronaldo played both of the matches, but he did not score a goal. However, there was a chance, when he was stepping up to take a freekick against West Ham, which started a conversation.

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Ronaldo and his record on freekicks

Cristiano Ronaldo was one of the best free-kick takers in the world and his record had been exemplary. He has the knuckleball technique in his arsenal and he used it to score a lot of goals from free-kicks at Manchester United and Real Madrid. However, that doesn’t happen anymore.

Ronaldo hasn’t scored a free-kick in a long time now, and Squawka Football calculated how many league goals from free-kicks he has scored in the last four seasons. The answer was shocking. He has taken 90 direct free-kicks since the 2017-18 season and has only scored one.

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Fans have questioned why he is still taking free-kicks for United, and until he scores again, they’ll keep criticizing his record.

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Cristiano Ronaldo and his stats for Manchester United

However, the other stats do speak volumes about Ronaldo’s quality at 36. He has scored 8 goals in the Premier League in 18 matches, along with three assists.

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Moreover, he has been in exemplary form in the UEFA Champions League, single-handedly taking United to the knockout stages with his six goals in five games. It’ll be interesting to see if he can take them all the way this season, as he is expected to.

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Aniket Awasthi is a soccer author at EssentiallySports. This STEM undergraduate combines an insatiable urge to write with his admiration for soccer to enhance his journalism. He lists charismatic names like Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcus Rashford as his favorite players, but he is a great admirer of Karim Benzema too.
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