Five-time Ballon d’Or winner, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his 700th career club goal with his first Premier League goal of the season.
Ronaldo had a slow start to the season and saw himself dropped to the bench after falling out of favor with Manchester united coach, Erik ten Hag.
Manchester United won Everton 2-1 on Sunday night, thanks to goals from Anthony and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s 700 club goals
Cristiano Ronaldo has now scored a record 700 goals across all four teams he has played for.
Ronaldo scored his first club goal for Sporting Lisbon in 2002 after breaking into the first team as a youth. 20 years later, the Portuguese have 700 goals to his name.
Ronaldo scored 5 goals for Sporting Lisbon, 144 goals for Manchester United in two spells, 450 goals for Real Madrid, and 101 goals for Juventus.
He’s currently the player with the most club goals but is followed closely by Lionel Messi who has 691.
Ronaldo’s first EPL goal of the 2022/2023 season
Cristiano Ronaldo has managed to start only one of the eight Premier League matches played by Manchester United this season.
He also had some awful displays during the short time he was introduced during the matches thereby raising doubts about his current form.
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Ronaldo was made to replace injured Anthony Martial in the 29th minute and not long after, in the second half, had his name registered in the book of goal scorers.
Combining for the goal was his former teammate from Real Madrid, Casemiro who won a lost ball from Everton’s Alex Iwobi and gave a through ball to Ronaldo. Ronaldo had a brief run with the ball before firing past Jordan Pickford with his left leg.
Manchester United now sits in 5th position on the Premier League table, with just one point behind harsh rivals, Chelsea.
