Cristiano Ronaldo has come underneath hearth for his free kick-taking in recent times.
Regardless of scoring set items for enjoyable at Manchester United, Ronaldo has solely bagged one free-kick as a Juventus participant and in membership soccer typically for the reason that 2017 Membership World Cup last.
And simply when it regarded as if Ronaldo could not be criticised any extra for free-kicks in Turin, the previous Actual Madrid man truly got here underneath hearth for his defending of them.
Ronaldo’s poor free-kick defending
That is as a result of many followers thought Ronaldo was at fault for Sérgio Oliveira’s free-kick objective for Porto in March, which in the end led to the Previous Girl being eradicated from the Champions League.
Regardless of being chosen to place his physique on the road, Ronaldo turned his again and contributed to the wall breaking up as Oliveira’s long-range strike wiggled its well past Wojciech Szczesny.
And Juventus’ conflict with Parma on Wednesday night time advised that Ronaldo’s poor free-kick defending within the Champions League was in no way an anomaly.
Lightning strikes twice vs Parma
That is as a result of footage of Gastón Brugman scoring an unlikely opener on the Allianz Stadium from a free-kick did not precisely mirror positively on Ronaldo who was as soon as once more defending within the wall.
Actually, the ball primarily flew over Ronaldo’s head as he was the one Juventus participant to not bounce, as an alternative turning his again and making a humorous gesture along with his leg. Test it out down beneath:
Oh expensive, Cristiano, did not you study your lesson?
Inadvertently serving to Parma to attain
Do not get me fallacious, I am hardly able to be righteous about standing as much as knowledgeable footballer walloping a free-kick, nevertheless it’s clear that Ronaldo let the remainder of the wall down right here.
Positive, it is unattainable to say whether or not Ronaldo would have been in a position to forestall Parma from scoring, however you’d forgive Juventus followers for at the least wanting him to attempt his very best simply to make sure.
In addition to, the trajectory of Brugman’s strike primarily went immediately above Ronaldo’s head, making his choice to maintain one foot within the turf and merely raise his proper boot all of the extra gutting.
If solely Ronaldo had a well known expertise for leaping terribly excessive on a soccer pitch, huh?