Cristiano Ronaldo is back on form in front of goal. After something of a slow start to the season with Real Madrid, the Portuguese was back to his best with a hat-trick in the 3-0 win at Atletico on Saturday. In the Champions League, however, he has some catching up to do.
The 31-year-old has reached double figures in the Champions League in each of the last five seasons, leading the scoring charts with a record 17 strikes en route to La Decima in 2013-14 and then 16 as Madrid claimed the trophy again last season.
That tally included 11 in the group stages as Ronaldo ran amok against Malmo (six goals in two games) and Shakhtar Donetsk (five in two), plus strikes home and away to Roma in the last 16 and a hat-trick in the quarter-final second leg versus Wolfsburg as Los Blancos overcame a 2-0 deficit from the first match.
This time around, though, the goals have been harder to come by. The Portuguese scored a free-kick in the 2-1 win over his former club Sporting CP at the Santiago Bernabeu in September and also struck early on in the 2-2 draw away to Borussia Dortmund later in the same month. But that, so far, is all - two goals in four matches.
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