Cristiano Ronaldo nets famous five

A snap reading of Cristiano Ronaldo’s five-goal haul as Real Madrid hammered Granada 5-1 in La Liga yesterday afternoon was that Los Blancos’ king is back.

Ronaldo has not had a good start to 2015, but he enjoyed filling his boots against a sorry Granada defence, scoring five times in a game for the first time in his career. The Estadio Santiago Bernabeu as a whole enjoyed the lunchtime kick-off, as their team scored nine goals for the first time in almost 50 years to [they hope] move on from their recent 2-1 ‘Clasico’ defeat at Barcelona.

The personal feat took Ronaldo to 36 goals in La Liga already this season, moving back ahead of Barca’s Lionel Messi at the top of Spain’s ‘pichichi’ top scorers race.