There are still two games yet to be played in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, against Atletico Madrid against Manchester United and Benfica at home against Ajax. Of course, C Ronaldo led Manchester United to challenge Simeone's Atletico Madrid away, which will be one of the highlights of the first leg, the game will start at 4:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 24, and fans need to watch through the network live broadcast platform, because CCTV has not arranged live broadcasting.
Originally, Manchester United and Atletico Madrid would not meet in the quarter-final stage, due to a mistake in the UEFA draw, the second draw result came out, leaving Ronaldo Unable to play against Messi, and finally drew Simeone's Atletico.
This is the second time manchester United has encountered Atletico in 31 years, the last time was the 1991 European Cup Winners' Cup, Manchester United 0-3 away and 1-1 at home, the total score of 1-4 was eliminated by Atletico. Now that United have Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, they are more confident to take away the victory away from home.
The 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo is very familiar with this La Liga giants, playing for Real Madrid for more than 30 games, and then joined Juve and has also played against. According to statistics, C Ronaldo has a total of 35 times against Atletico in his career, scoring 25 goals and assisting 5 times, one person alone made 30 goals, and in the Champions League, C Ronaldo has encountered Atletico a total of 10 times, scored 7 goals and assisted 2 times, including 2 hat tricks, which is definitely a big nemesis of Atletico.
During the 2014-2020 period, C Ronaldo played against Atletico Madrid 5 times in the Knockout Stage of the Champions League, and all the teams he played for won or advanced, including the Champions League finals in 2014 and 2016, C Ronaldo helped Real Madrid beat Atletico to win the championship, in the 2017 Champions League semifinals, Real Madrid won 3-0 against Atletico Madrid in the first leg, C Ronaldo completed a hat-trick, and then to the 2020 Champions League 1/8 final, C Ronaldo played for Juve at the time, the Bianconeri Waswolf 0-2 behind in the first leg, and the second leg relied on C Ronaldo's hat trick. In the end, atletico were turned over 3-2.
Now Ronaldo has returned to play for Manchester United, representing the third team against Atletico Madrid, which is also the team that C Ronaldo has met Simeone in the Champions League for the second time after a gap of 2 years.
In the Premier League last weekend, C Ronaldo was replaced early in the second half, and the intention of coach Ronnick was very obvious, which was to let C Ronaldo retain his physical strength. In the champions league group stage this season, C Ronaldo scored 5 consecutive goals and scored a total of 6 goals, because Manchester United locked the first place in the group in the early round, so the rotation was absent from the 6th round, and the Efficiency of the Champions League goal was still very high.
At present, Ronaldo has scored 139 goals in the Champions League, close to 140 goals, against Atletico Madrid as long as the goal is scored, it can become the first player in the 66-year history of the Champions League to score 140 goals, this miracle for Ronaldo, it is not difficult to achieve.