“I have a contract with Real and I will stay”.
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Hareide – coaching in his final match at the club – farewelled Malmo in the worst possible way as Madrid humbled the Swedish visitors 8-0 in the final Group A fixture at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday.
In the 2013-14 season, Ronaldo and Shakhtar Donetsk’s Luiz Adriano scored nine goals in the six matches of the group stage.
Cristiano Ronaldo, 30 years-of-age, was close to level the absolute record of his rival, Lionel Messi: 5 goals in a single Champions League match. Benzema scored his first hat trick since 2010 and continued his hot streak, despite pending legal issues. In the second half Ronaldo scored three more times in the next 13 minutes, Mateo Kovacic scored his first goal for Real Madrid since transferring from Inter Milan in August, and Benzema added his hat trick goal.
MANCHESTER, England – Manchester City scored three late goals in a five-minute span to beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-2 and finish top of its Champions League group for the first time on Tuesday. “But this club has helped me greatly since I’ve arrived and I’m very happy here”.
“This is a team (Real) that doesn’t leave you behind, in the good moments and the bad”. The important thing is to carry on this run of good play and results that we must maintain.
The Real Madrid man also found the net from a direct free-kick to open his tally against Malmo, an improvement on his recent poor return from dead-balls. Veteran defender Sergei Ignashevic converted a 76th-minute penalty to give CSKA the lead, but PSV captain Luuk de Jong equalized just two minutes later and midfielder Davy Proepper’s low shot sealed the win in the 86th.
Ronaldo played down rumours of a rift with Benítez and said that he was happy at the club. “Cristiano is an ambitious player and seeing him always looking for more, is always inspirational for everybody”.
The group’s third place team will move on to the second tier of the European competition but Malmo must end the UCL competition with more points than Shakhtar.
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Madrid were humbled 4-0 by eternal rivals Barcelona recently, with the Portugal worldwide getting a battering from the press after his ineffective performance for Rafa Benitez’s team. He was held scoreless in the two games against PSG. It was enough to see Galatasaray finish third and qualify for the Europa League.
