The game of soccer has turned out to be so demanding nowadays that fans can’t expect their star players to fail even in a single game and if a high profile player fails to deliver in two or three consecutive games, it is being taken as his failure to deliver and he starts getting negative response from the fans and this is something that seems to be happening with Real Madrid’s high profile starlet Cristiano Ronaldo who again could score a goal in the Sunday’s 2-1 La Liga win over Athletic Bilbao at the Bernabeu. It has now been four games passed by 31-year-old former priciest player of the world could not connect with the opponent goalpost and this is what made home fans furious last weekend and they whistled over one of the most successful forward of contemporary soccer which is uncommon to see to all of us. Manager Zinedine Zidane understands the importance of missing fans faith in his star players hence he wasted no time and expressed his belief that former Manchester United player will take those whistles with a positive note and get back his form very soon.
Actually, this is possibly the first time in last many years that Ronaldo missed the net for so long, but this season seems to be not going well for the Portuguese international hence despite firing twenty shots on the goalposts he could only net four goals which is strange with the strike rate he carried throughout his career. Anyways, taking about him and what the whistles could mean for the side and player, Zidane told a news conference, “I don’t understand . But they also whistled me, I know it can happen. It means the Bernabeu is special, it demands the maximum. Cristiano is used to that, and is not worried about it. We know how important the fans are.
“I spoke with him about other things, as that does not worry me. I want him to score two or three goals each game, but I am not worried as I know it will happen. He is not converting the chances, but the important thing is he gets them. Soon he will score them, and it will all be calmer. We just think about our own things, what is going on inside. There is so much external stuff that we cannot control and is not worth commenting on. The best thing is just to let it go and focus on what happens on the pitch.”
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