Champions League:Ronaldo eyes history in Malmo

Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo will aim to end an uncharacteristically long
goal drought at three games when Real Madrid travel to face
Malmo in the Champions League on Wednesday, AFP reports.
Ronaldo is just two goals shy of matching Raul’s 323-goal
record as Madrid’s top goalscorer of all time.
However, the Portuguese has been made to wait for his historic
moment after failing to find the net in La Liga meetings against
Granada, Athletic Bilbao and Malaga in the past 10 days.
Ronaldo was especially frustrated as Real failed to score at
home for the first time in 56 matches in a 0-0 draw against
Malaga on Saturday despite 31 attempts on goal, 14 of which
came from the World Player of the Year.
Yet, Ronaldo often saves his best for European nights as he
netted a hat-trick in Madrid’s 4-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk in
their Group A opener to move out on his own as the top scorer
in Champions League history with 80.
“Everyone knows what he is like. He is not obsessed with
beating records but rather he aims to help the team to win,”
Madrid left-back Marcelo told the club’s website.
Rafael Benitez’s men have now been held scoreless twice in
their opening six La Liga fixtures, but the former Liverpool and
Chelsea boss is confident the goals will come for the Spanish
giants if they continue to create as much as they did against
Malaga.
“Creating so many chances seems positive to me, but
preventing opportunities on the counter-attack is something that
we need to correct as well as managing the anxiety at the end of
games,” he said.
“When the opposition goalkeeper is the man-of-the-match it
means you have at least done your job attacking and created so
many chances he has had to intervene a lot.”
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