Real Madrid have done an incredible season winning the double with La Liga, and the Champions League. This was a very difficult task, because Los Blancos had not won La Liga in the last five years and they are the first team who claimed for second time in a row the Champions League title. Now it’s the moment to evaluate the performance of the players during the season 2016-2017.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been the best player in Real Madrid in the last season, being a key player in the most important games of the season. The Portuguese player has been heavily criticized during his career because he didn’t show up in important days. Obviously, no one can doubt nowadays that the Portuguese striker always helps his team in the crucial games and this year he continued beating records, being the best player in Real Madrid history.
In Champions League he scored a brace at Allianz Arena in Munich and a hat trick against the German side at Santiago Bernabéu. In the semifinals, he scored again three goals in the derby to dumb Atlético Madrid and in the final he opened the scored board and in the last minutes he saw the net once again.
Something has changed for Cristiano this year. After several conversations with Zinedine Zidane, they arrived to an agreement in the number of games the Portuguese player must play in the season. Cristiano Ronaldo has played almost all the games in the last years, even those that were unnecessary. The Portuguese star confessed that he must rest more in order to maintain his physical strength. He has rested more games respect the last seasons, and this may be the key why the Portuguese leader arrived to the end of the season so fit.
There have been many rumors about Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure this summer because he had problems with the tax authority, but it looks like the Portuguese striker will stay at Madrid at least one year more, as he confirmed.
Last season Real Madrid’s leader scored 29 goals in La Liga in the 29 games he played, 12 in Champions League in 13 games and one in Copa del Rey. We can say that this has been the best year for Cristiano because he won the Euro Cup with Portugal last summer, the Spanish League, and he closed the year winning his fourth Champions League. It seems he will receive his fifth Golden Ball after this amazing season, where he has been the best player of the world.
