101 and tallying - Cristiano Ronaldo's momentous Champions League record for Real MadridsteemCreated with Sketch.

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With two objectives to enable Real Madrid to fight against eminent loss to beat Paris St-Germain 3-1 in their last-16 first-leg tie on Wednesday night, Ronaldo turned into the main player to score more than 100 Champions League objectives for a solitary club.

The forward has now scored 21 objectives in his last 12 Champions League recreations and 11 out of seven this season.

Furthermore, a few people think he is on the decay.

How can he contrast with his adversaries?

Ronaldo will be satisfied with this one. He has four more objectives for a solitary club in Europe's world class rivalry than Barcelona match Lionel Messi.

After Messi, nobody is even near Ronaldo's goalscoring structure in the Champions League:

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Ronaldo's CL goals by season at Real Madrid

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Adoring life in the Champions League

Not yet persuaded by Ronaldo's Champions League greatness? These details may convince you:

Ronaldo has topped the yearly goalscoring graphs on the most events in Champions League history (6).

He is additionally the main player to score 10+ objectives in six distinct Champions League seasons.

Ronaldo holds the record for the most objectives scored inside a Champions League gather organize in a solitary season (11 objectives in 2015-16).

He is the player with most objectives scored in a solitary Champions League season (17 objectives in 2013-14).

Ronaldo was the main player to score in all gathering stage diversions inside a solitary Champions League season (nine objectives in 2017-18).

Should have a group of Ronaldos?

Unimaginably, as indicated by brandish analysts Gracenote, Ronaldo has scored a greater number of Champions League objectives all alone than 87% of groups to have at any point played in the opposition.

Counting the 15 Champions League objectives he scored for Manchester United before joining Real Madrid, Ronaldo has scored an aggregate of 116 in the Champions League. That is 19 more than some other player (Messi, obviously) and more than 118 of the 137 groups that have ever showed up in the primary rivalry.

An unfathomable record.

'He lives for the punishment region'

Ronaldo's most recent two objectives in the Champions League were a punishment and a short proximity wrap up. Indeed, most by far of his objectives in the opposition have been scored inside the case.

"Ronaldo now has 101 Champions League goals for Real Madrid, and it sounds churlish to say but he didn't have a great game," said Spanish football writer Andy West on BBC Radio 5 live.

"That's what he does now, not the Premier League box-to-box player we saw, he lives for the penalty area, and that's how he can extend his career, now in his 30s."

Benzema - Ronaldo's best mate?

Despite the fact Karim Benzema did not make a single pass to Ronaldo against Paris St-Germain, he has assisted more Ronaldo goals in the Champions League for Real Madrid than anyone else - 11. Gareth Bale is second on the list with seven, with Marcelo on six.

They were Ronaldo's first two goals against Paris St-Germain for Real Madrid, in his third appearance. His most successful opposition for Real Madrid in the Champions League is surprisingly Bayern Munich (nine goals in six games).

He has scored seven against each of Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Ajax and Schalke - the latter three at a rate of more than one a game.