Didn’t check them, but that’s why I said 95%. Though I’d be surprised if there weren’t some bookmakers who had real as favourites.
Cristiano Ronaldo - performances 2017/18
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Didn’t check them, but that’s why I said 95%. Though I’d be surprised if there weren’t some bookmakers who had real as favourites.
He really is just so deadly in and around the box, crosses in and he’s always a major threat with his air ability.
Outside of box with either foot he can strike the ball with tremendous power.
He’s just the ultimate attacker.
Outside of box with either foot he can strike the ball with tremendous power.
He’s just the ultimate attacker.
I wonder at which point in his career he decided to work on his heading and his leap. Not sure if anyone knows whether or not he was so lethal in the air as a youth player at sporting?
Don't know where you lived but clutch is a very common word around here.
Thought he was a pretty good header for us too?
Showed my son that goal last night. I'll never forget that, just amazing.
He was but I don’t remember it being as good in his first few years. The leap he has developed comes from targeted work in the gym, it’s exemplary.
There were none! The odds weren't even close. PSG odds were under 1/1 on most bookies and Real was about 3/1 and even 7/2 at some places.
Surprising with Neymar out injured and I’d imagine Ronaldo as favourite/second favourite for first goal
Ronaldo's pretty much always been an excellent header in terms of instinct and leap.
e.g. Both of his goals in EURO 2004 came off headers:
Do think that playing in England further developed this aspect of his game, though - he had to become tougher, more robust and a bit of a fighter in the box off set pieces given the nature of the Premier League - allying his blistering natural athleticism with clichéd power.
I agree. I don't think PSG should have been favourites, not without Neymar, and not by those odds in any case.
Even with Neymar I think they shouldn't have been favorites. There's something about that Madrid team and big games in UCL in recent years, they really seem to turn up tbh.
Remember that time, early on in his carreer, when his critisists were saying he was not a big game player? Hindsight's a funny thing.
The haters are ridiculous. They have this weird thing about saying statistics don't mean much. They will do everything to belittle Ronaldo's game/performance. You have to hand it to them. They used to say he doesn't perform in the big games.. and now they can't even say that anymore.
Could be wrong but did it not derive from Gaming? The only time I ever heard it being used and frequently was back in Call Of Duty 2 online when a player was against the odds (1v5, 1v4, 3...etc) and won the game on their own it was called a clutch.
I never heard it being used when in relation with football until a Juventus fan posted on the Caf about how good Morata was when we were linked with him last summer. It's popped up plenty of times since.
Its mostly used in NBA or NFL thats why but I tend to like it.
When his haters get this vocal, and insecure, you know he had a good game.
So in the context of how the game developed and how little threat PSG offered it was a comfortable game but his goal was still very important as it killed whatever spirit PSG had left. The goal came after PSG was starting to be more aggressive in the attack (and after the pause because of their idiot fans) and it made it look like so simple and I'd imagine PSG must have felt helpless at that moment.
So in the context of how the game developed and how little threat PSG offered it was a comfortable game but his goal was still very important as it killed whatever spirit PSG had left. The goal came after PSG was starting to be more aggressive in the attack (and after the pause because of their idiot fans) and it made it look like so simple and I'd imagine PSG must have felt helpless at that moment.
Chicago.
Don’t really follow the local sports more than watching them in the pub with friends occasionally.
Almost a whole page discussing "clutch"
Thought it is worth mentioning that he's on his way to become the top scorer in the CL for the 6th season in a row and for the 7th time total.
Notably the opponent he has scored against most often is Bayern München, 9 goals against them.
There was a thread the other day about who's the greatest ever player in the CL. You can't really argue against Ronald being that player. His achievements in general are only comparable by Messi but in the CL he's in a league of his own.
Notably the opponent he has scored against most often is Bayern München, 9 goals against them.
There was a thread the other day about who's the greatest ever player in the CL. You can't really argue against Ronald being that player. His achievements in general are only comparable by Messi but in the CL he's in a league of his own.
Clutch isn't even a sports word though. We use it all the time. If you're hungry and someone brings free pizza we say "oh you guys are clutch!"
Sounds massively like small college town bro lingo to me, have to admit.
"Clutch" comes from baseball, ie clutch hitters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_hitter
Remember when Ronaldo was criticized for being all show pony, no end product?
Don't understand why you're quoting me..
Yeah it sounds like you spent 5 years in your bubble without getting immersed with the culture if you're just going to be so bitter about phrases that are common
How are there so many posts discussing the word 'clutch'?
The recent influx of the word clutch has annoyed me also.
Nonsense.
Without Ronaldo they would have been lucky to have gotten out of the group stages.
As for the final, we won the Champions League final without Keane and Scholes on the pitch - strange how that is never used as an argument against how good both of those players were.
Some of them are amazing:
Cristiano Ronaldo has been the Champions League top scorer in five successive seasons.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player to win the league title, the national cup, the national Super Cup (Community Shield), the Champions League, the Club World Cup, the league’s Player of the Year, the Golden Boot and the Ballon d’Or at two separate clubs.
And you can see this one coming up in quizzes!
Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are the only players to have scored in every minute of an official football game.
Scoring more than 50 goals for 6 consecutive season?
Holy...
Holy...
Funny. In the transfer forum people were saying they wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole, too old, past it, etc.
I have no idea what clutch is supposed to mean.
No worries, it’s currently being out hipster’d by the word “snowflake”
Easier to explain in terms of tennis. Playing well in the big moments when break point down (or up). Something which the top players do, basically delivering when it really matters.
I can understand what snowflake means.
How on earth does that equate to clutch?
In a car, the cl....feck knows.How on earth does that equate to clutch?
I can understand what snowflake means.
How on earth does that equate to clutch?
To clutch the situation by the balls and take control on your own basically.
I can understand what snowflake means.
How on earth does that equate to clutch?
Because clutch isn't really something widely used for GOAT level players, everyone supposes that if you're good enough to be in that tier, you already can deliver under any circunstance, otherwise any great player that's not a choker would be considered clutch.
Clutch is the skill of, when there's no room for error, show up, and put another gear into your game (that's where clutch comes from, using it to shift gears) to surpass an adversity in the last ditch effort, clutch isn't Cristiano scoring 3 goals on a game against any club single-handedly winning the game, or Jordan's flu game. It's more about moments like "The Shot", Sergio Ramos absurd record of 90+ goals being a defender, or Horry, a guy who never went beyond 12ppg having a collection of 7 game-winning shots in playoffs.
So, is Ronaldo clutch? You could say that, at this point, in his general level as an all time great, clutch is already "implied" in his arsenal of skills, because he has scored game winners of every colour, but the flair definition of clutch, what most hype-casters use, is being able to do it consistently in the last minute when everything is lost, Ramos scoring the 93' goal in La Decima is clutch, him scoring 15' into the game in La Undecima it's not considered clutch, even tho both games ended 1-1 and both goals have the same weight, is considered to be harder to pull that off in what could possibly be the last ditch effort of the game.
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Would you feckers stop making up football terms and talk like normal people
Clutch ffs. It’s a fecking car piece you ingrates
It’s no wonder more and more people are getting put off the football forums with football professors in here talking shite
Clutch ffs. It’s a fecking car piece you ingrates
It’s no wonder more and more people are getting put off the football forums with football professors in here talking shite