Juventus vs Cagliari: Ronaldo Creates a Rare Record, the Bianconeri Wins

DBasia.news – Juventus superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo has made a rare record when he helped his team win 2-0 against Cagliari on Sunday (22/11/2020) am.

Hosting Cagliari at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday (22/11) am, in the eighth week of Serie A, Juventus won through two goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo in the 38th and 42nd minutes. Juventus are now in second place in the standings with 16 points.

Juventus were superior to Cagliari with 67 percent possession of the ball, having 24 attempted kicks and six of them on target, while Cagliari were unable to fire a single shot on target that tested Gianluigi Buffon.

Thanks to these two goals, Ronaldo made another record at Juventus. According to Opta, Ronaldo is the only Juventus player to score in each of the first five Serie A games each season from matches that ended in victory (since 1994-1995).

Added by Squawka, Ronaldo has also currently scored 59 goals in Serie A since joining from Real Madrid in 2018. That record exceeds any player in the competition during that time.

Meanwhile, from a personal record, the winner of five Ballon d’Or has done it with Real Madrid in the 2014-2015 season. Andrea Pirlo, the Juventus coach, did not say much about Ronaldo because he already understood the quality of the player well.

“Ronaldo is a great professional, as we all know, and he is a role model for everyone around him in both games and training. The only advice I can give him is to continue like this!” said Pirlo in Football-Italy.

Meanwhile, regarding the final result, Pirlo is happy that Juventus dominated the game. Juventus could even add to a goal from Federico Bernardeschi if his goal was not ruled out for being offside.

“The players may change, but our style of football must remain the same,” added Pirlo. “We did very well to control the game in the first half in particular, so we need a performance like this to increase the confidence of the team.”

“When you come back from international duty it’s always difficult to focus, but we did well to maintain the right spirit from the start.”

“We have a lot of players in the squad who can change the game by counter-attacking, although there has to be a balance, because if not, we risk exhaustion,” explained Pirlo.