Ronaldo’s contract with Real Madrid runs through 2018.
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With two goals and two assists against Shakhtar Donetsk, Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo is our player of the day.
Speaking ahead of his side’s trip to face Shakhtar Donetsk i the Champions League on Wednesday, Benitez also said he was still hurting from Saturday’s 4-0 beating by Barcelona at the Bernabeu on Saturday.
Shakhtar did make a late push in the final 20 minutes, with Alex Texeira converting a penalty in the 77th and notching a brace of his own with another goal in the 88th minute.
Madrid will be taking confidence from the comfortable win they recorded in the reverse fixture at the Bernabéu back on the Champions League’s first matchday.
“Cristiano will end his career at Real Madrid”, Mendes told Canal+, AS reports, according to stories from England. Although he says he is not in a hurry to get promoted, Zidane’s name will be mentioned every time Madrid fails to get a win.
Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo apparently likes Benítez even less than most and it’s perhaps telling that the Portuguese winger been a little quieter than usual so far this season. Luckily for them, Shakhtar is a prime target for such a need. Benitez denied that something had gone wrong structurally with his team.
“I insist that we haven’t played well and the only think that we can do now is recover as quickly as possible to face the next game”. Let us know in the comments section below. The penalty, which I’m not sure was one, and the goal from a corner kick allowed them back into the game.
The defeat puts Benitez’s side six points behind Barca in third, with local rivals Atletico two points clear in second.
But with several players out with injuries this week, can Real pull off a big win?
“There were some changes, it is very important to retain competition for places among the squad”, he said. “Today everything went our way for most of the game”, Benitez said. “Those who were on the pitch did sensationally well”.
Modric found space to play in Gareth Bale down the left and the Welshman looked up to see Ronaldo unmarked.
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Rather than give his coaches a free hand, he is believed to instruct them to deploy Real’s marquee signings instead of players who may be in better form or better suited to a particular match. “I agree that we made mistakes, but not that there was a lack of attitude”.
