On May 3, Beijing time, Manchester United beat Brentford 3-0, and Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 18th goal in the Premier League this season, the same number of goals scored 13 years ago!
After returning to Manchester United this season, Ronaldo, who is already 37 years old, still showed a good competitive state, and recently broke out in succession, having scored 4 consecutive league rounds and scoring 9 goals in the last 6 rounds, including two hat-tricks!
After scoring penalties in this match, Ronaldo scored 18 Premier League goals, ranking third in the top scorers list, behind Salah with 22 goals and Son Heung-min with 19 goals, and also breaking the Premier League goal record of 37-year-old + players.
Interestingly, in the last season when Ronaldo first played for Manchester United, that is, in the 2008-09 season, he also scored 18 goals in the league! And played 33 games, which is not as efficient as the 29 games this season.
You know, C Ronaldo was 24 years old at the time, already a world footballer and Ballon d'Or winner, and was about to leave Manchester United that summer and enter the peak of his career. Now at the age of 37, we are at the end of our career, but it is truly breathtaking to score the same number of goals!
The 18 goals are also the second-most goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo twice for Manchester United in a single season in the Premier League, surpassing the 17 goals in the 2006-07 season and second only to the 31 goals in the 2008-09 season.