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#2 Scoring 21 goals in 11 appearances after the turn of the year
For the first half of the season, Ronaldo was hardly doing himself any favours by botching wonderful opportunities in front of goal. He was not scoring goals or creating them and was starting to cut a frustrated figure at the centre of the park.
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However, things took a turn for the better since the turn of the year and Ronaldo quite simply got back to being on fire! He was unstoppable in the Champions League and all of a sudden, he was replicating that same form in La Liga as well.
Ronaldo scored an astounding 21 goals in 11 games at the beginning of the new year and wound up everyone who ever said anything about him losing his goalscoring prowess. 21 goals in 11 appearances hardly look like the returns of a player who was supposedly playing on borrowed time.
