Real Madrid will face this weekend Athletic Bilbao in the ninth match of the regular season at Santiago Bernabéu. There is a player of Los Blancos that don’t score playing as a local since September and that is very unusual for him. This star is Cristiano Ronaldo.
It has been over a month since Cristiano scored his unique goal in the regular season at Santiago Bernabéu. The Portuguese star scored his last goal in the 10th of September in La Liga against Osasuna, when he opened the scorer in the first five minutes. It was his first goal and the last one he scored in the Real Madrid coliseum in La Liga. Since then, the Portuguese has only found the net once and it was against Real Betis at the Benito Villamarín scoring the goal that closed the big thrash (1-6). We must remember that the Portuguese striker also scored against Sporting Lisbon from a great free kick drawing the game in the very last minute.
This Sunday, Cristiano Ronaldo has a very good chance to increase his goalscoring performance in the season. Real Madrid will face Athletic Club, one of the prefer victims for the Portuguese star. He has scored twelve goals in the seven matches Cristiano played against Athletic at Santiago Bernabéu. In the only match the Portuguese didn’t score as a local against Athletic it was in the 2012-2013 season. In the rest of the games, the Basque team suffered with Cristiano. He has scored 12 goals in the seven games he played at Santiago Bernabéu against Athletic, including two hat tricks (2010-11 and 2014-15 seasons) and he also scored two goals in two matches ( 2011-12 and 2015-16 seasons)
However, Cristiano is the top scorer of Real Madrid since the arrival of Zinedine Zidane in Madrid. The Portuguese striker has scored 30 goals in the 30 matches with Zidane on the bench. The second top scorer with the French manager is Karim Benzema with 15 many fewer goals than Cristiano Ronaldo. He is the highest scorer in this season, tied with Bale and Asensio, scoring four goals if we add all official competitions held so far.
