Although Manchester United’s season continues to fall short of expectations, at the end of last year Mancunian fans could still cling to David De Gea’s saves and Cristiano Ronaldo’s goals as the light that guided his aspirations. However, since the beginning of 2022, the fans Red Devil He only has the interventions of the Spanish goalkeeper left. Not even the Portuguese star manages to dispel the doubts of a project that, beyond the collective results, is beginning to affect CR7 individually. And it is that Cristiano Ronaldo, who has not seen a goal in any of his last five games with the Manchester United shirt, is chaining his worst scoring streak since 2010, when he played for Real Madrid. At that time, the Portuguese went without scoring in the last two games of the 2009/2010 season (the first as a white player) and the first three of 2010/2011.
To this data is added another, if possible, more worrying. And it is that Cristiano Ronaldo’s scoring records differ, and a lot, with his attempts to score a goal. The Portuguese striker for Manchester United is, after Mohamed Salah, the second player in the Premier League who averages the most shots per game, with an average of 3.5. While the Liverpool striker, with a record of 4 shots per game, has scored 16 goals this season and is the top scorer in the competition, the 8 goals scored by CR7 so far in the Premier League place him as the 5th scorer in Englandtied with Sadio Mané, Emile Smith Rowe, Michail Antonio, Raphinha and Emmanuel Dennis.
Wolverhampton, Brentford, West Ham, Middlesbrough (in FA Cup) and, last time, Burnley. Five games, during which the Old Trafford team achieved two wins, one draw, one loss and one Cup elimination, but no goals. On December 30, 2021, precisely against Burnley, it was the last game in which Cristiano Ronaldo managed to add a goal (and an assist) to his locker. The same rival against whom, almost a month and a half later, he was not even in the game. And it is that the crisis of the Portuguese striker goes beyond the goals. Before the team led by Sean Dyche, Ralf Rangnick left CR7 on the bench, opting to place the Uruguayan Edison Cavani as the spearhead. The German coach brought on Cristiano Ronaldo in the 68th minute, when the Red Devils tied 1-1, but not even with the Mancunian side’s top scorer on the pitch did Ralf Rangnick’s men manage to get more than one point from their visit to TurfMoor.
So far this season, and taking into account all competitions, the Manchester United ‘7’ has scored 14 goals in 25 games. Of the 18 Premier League games he has played, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in 6 of them, scoring a total of 8 goals in the league competition. Beyond the fact that the Portuguese has not managed to release his scoring account in 2022, his numbers since the arrival of Ralf Rangnick on the Old Trafford bench leave much to be desired. The German coach made his debut with victory against Crystal Palace on December 5 last year. Since then, Cristiano Ronaldo has only seen the goal on 2 occasions (in 9 games) under the orders of the former sports director of RB Leipzig: against Norwich City (0-1), on matchday 16 of the Premier League, and in the aforementioned last game of 2021 against the Clarets (3-1). And it is that the departure of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, as necessary as it was for the interests Red Devilshas not sat well with CR7 at all.