5 best individual performances this weekend (17th-18th March)

#2 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid): 4 goals, 1 assist vs FC Girona

Back to his menacing best

When the king is on song, there's nothing like it. I mean, how dare we wrote this man off after he struggled to ease into his groove in the first half of the season. He has scored a nearly unbelievable 20 goals in the last 11 games. What kind of stats are those?!

Against FC Girona, who had the beating of the European champions in the corresponding fixture in the first half of the season, Cristiano Ronaldo was at his clinical best.

The signs were there from the get-go as he tested Yassine Bounou from 20 yards out from a driven free kick in the 4th minute of the game. He then volleyed home with aplomb from a Toni Kroos cut-back in the 11th minute and wheeled away in celebration.

Girona equalised in the 29th minute but around 20 minutes later, the Portuguese forward doubled his tally for the night after dinking the ball over the goalkeeper after latching on to a threaded pass from Karim Benzema.

Ronaldo then teed up Lucas Vazquez unselfishly 10 minutes later before tapping into the open goal from 5 yards out after Bono parried a Benzema shot in the 64th minute.

Cristiano Ronaldo did not stop there and sidefooted into the far corner in the 91st minute to take his tally to 4 and Real Madrid's tally to 6 on the night.

Cristiano Ronaldo now has 22 goals from 23 appearances. What was that about Ronaldo ageing and withering away?