cheap replica football shirts Juventus legend Alessandro Del Piero warned Atletico Madrid on Wednesday that his old club had a new game plan that “almost always delivers excellent results in the Champions League: It’s called CR7!”
Certainly, Cristiano Ronaldo repeatedly proved decisive for Real Madrid in Europe: he scored 50 times in the knockout stage alone for the Blancos.
Hardly surprising, then, that a giddy Italian press expected the five-time Ballon d’Or winner to almost singlehandedly win the tournament for new club Juve.
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On the morning of Wednesday’s last-16 first leg against Atletico Madrid, the Gazzetta dello Sport even demanded, “Giant, you take care of it!”
He couldn’t, though. Ronaldo may have stood tall cheap football kits on his return to the Spanish capital but even he could do nothing about a dreadfully defensive tactical approach that, predictably, resulted in a dire performance and an even worse result.