Ronaldo’s performance is unstable. (Source: Daily Mail)
Cristiano Ronaldo’s newly released documentary about himself is the focus of world press.
The glamor (and controversy) surrounding it is obscuring the fact that Ronaldo is losing himself this season under the coaching of Rafa Benitez. What options are there for CR7 to revive? Not much, but very difficult to do.
Return Ronaldo to the left wing
The following statistics can make everyone rethink what they have seen since the season started. Ronaldo has played without stopping for even 1 minute since the beginning of the season, and the number of goals scored. In La Liga, CR7 has only 8, especially 5 of them came from the 6-0 win against Espanyol, along with Ronaldo having failed in 7/11 matches in La Liga this season.
The numbers don’t lie, Ronaldo is currently the least effective version since the Portuguese star arrived at the Bernabeu in 2009. It’s hard to accept that a striker plays everything. matches from the beginning of the season but more than half of them failed. The biggest reason for this is because Ronaldo was pushed to play striker by coach Rafa Benitez after Karim Benzema was injured. This change in position seems to make Ronaldo score more goals due to better access to the opponent’s goal, but their effect is the opposite because Ronaldo does not have as much space as on the front line. This.
Pulling Ronaldo back to the left edge seems to be a simple matter visually for viewers, but Benitez will encounter quite a lot of trouble when striker Karim Benzema is still in the stage of injury treatment, and is also involved in various problems. Trouble related to the sex scandal with teammate Mathieu Valbuena. Without Benzema as a striker, Ronaldo will have to replace him because Real simply has no backup plan.
Deploy the ball more horizontally
Ronaldo is actually not the type of player who likes this too much, but too many direct balls forcing Ronaldo to speed up at all times in the match has gradually made the Portuguese superstar no longer so effective in attack. . Benitez is a very good strategist at forcing his system to play as directly and pragmatically as possible through vertical passes upwards and taking advantage of the good running skills and speed of the central striker to goaltending.
Ronaldo has the qualities to do that, but reality is always different. Ronaldo needs a lot of horizontal passes to stretch the opponent’s defense before using speed and technique to break through. Too many vertical passes make it difficult for CR7 to face a well-organized and skillful defense.
Firing Rafa Benitez
This is of course the most… impossible option. Benitez is the biggest reason for Ronaldo’s decline at the present time. Firing Benitez would of course be the end of the matter… for a moment before all hell broke loose at the Bernabeu during the process of choosing a replacement for the Spanish military leader. It has been 7 years since the last time Real “changed generals midstream” when firing Bernd Schuster and appointing Juande Ramos, it is very difficult for Los Blancos to repeat that at this time.
Benitez may be fired if Real does not resolve Ronaldo’s situation, leading to low performance, but it is believed that will only happen at the end of the season. So all fans may have to accept the fact that Ronaldo will decline further this season. The Portuguese superstar knows that, it is no coincidence that Ronaldo suddenly admitted defeat to Lionel Messi in the race for the European Golden Ball title this season in the latest talk show with Jonathan Ross on ITV./.
