Monday, 3 September 2012

Ronaldo double as Real Madrid secure first league win

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates the first of his two goals in the Santiago Bernabeu against Granada.
 Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as champions Real Madrid secured their first win of the La Liga season with a 3-0 defeat of Granada in the Santiago Bernabeu Sunday.
The Portuguese star was making it 150 goals in just 149 games for the Madrid giants, but he limped off in the second half after a hefty challenge which saw Borja Gomez sent off for a second yellow card.
Real beat Barcelona to win the Spain Super Cup in midweek, but had taken a single point from their opening two league games.
Despite prompting from new signing Luka Modric from Tottenham, Real were uninspired in the opening half and Ronaldo owed his opener to a mistake by Antonio 'Tono' Rodriguez in the Granada goal as a shot from an acute angle squeezed through his legs on 25 minutes.
Real improved after the break and substitute Angel Di Maria set up Ronaldo for his second, his initial shot saved by Tono before knocking in the rebound.

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