Manchester United drew 0-0 with Watford, Cristiano Ronaldo was dumbfounded again, and in the 10 games since the New Year, he has not scored in 9 games, which is really disappointing. I have to say that the years are not spared, the 37-year-old president, looks really old!
If you watch this game, you know that Ronaldo is not without a chance to score: the turn shot in the penalty area hits the upright, the rush point push is blown off because of a slight offside, and he runs out of the empty goal opportunity, but B Fee does not pass - if he is lucky, he may stage a good play, and there will be no post-match criticism and doubt.
Luck is indeed not on the side of C Ronaldo, but through the game we can also see that compared to the last minute of the first half of the season to save the team, the president played less and less time and space.
His running position is still very good, but the accuracy of his shots is decreasing; he basically can't create opportunities for himself, he can only wait for his teammates to feed him, and then he can shoot in one move, at most two strokes; when he has physical fitness in the first half, he plays better, but in the second half, the further back, the more he exhausts his physical strength, the more mistakes he will make with the ball and fight.
The data proves it. Since 2022, Ronaldo has shot 32 times on goal, but has only scored 1 goal and wasted 6 major opportunities! This was absolutely unimaginable in the past.
Only 1 goal was scored in the first 10 games of the New Year, which is also the lowest in Ronaldo's career! Tied for 2004. What about the highest record? In 2013 and 2018, the president scored 14 goals in the first 10 games of the New Year! And in 2020, that is, two years ago, the 35-year-old could record 13 goals in the first 10 games.
This is all the curse of "age". Even if the physical fitness is excellent, but the age is not spared, C Ronaldo is not 35 years old after all, but 37 years old, in the Premier League, which pays special attention to speed, physical fitness and confrontation, this disadvantage will only become more and more obvious. The flower has a reopening day, no one is young again, he is really old!