Can Ronaldo Continue His Record Start

Real Madrid’s Portuguese star, Cristiano Ronaldo is set for a record-breaking season if his current form continues, but can he continue scoring like this until May?

In 2014/15, Ronaldo has played 10 matches in La Liga this season, scoring 18 goals in the process, at an average of 1.8 goals per game. Given that there are 27 more games to go in the La Liga season (and given that Ronaldo plays in all of them), if the Portuguese continues to score at his current rate, Ronaldo will score 66 goals by the time the League campaign finishes in May, which is exactly the all-time record in world football, set by Hungarian striker, Ferenc Deák way back in 1945/46. Naturally, that may be a difficult feat to match, but even if his form falters a bit, he will definitely have Lionel Messi’s record La Liga tally in 2011/12 of 50 strikes in his sights.

So what do the statistics say about Ronaldo’s form over the course of the season?

In 2012/13 he had scored 12 goals after 11 matches, after a slow start to the season, from there on, he blew relatively hot and cold form, scoring four goals in his next seven matches, before he struck 11 times in his next six matches. Twenty-four games into that season, he had a total of 27 strikes, where his form had clearly taken a remarkable improvement through the middle stages of the season. In the final stretch of 10 matches (he didn’t play in four matches), Ronaldo scored a total of seven goals to keep his goalscoring average at exactly a goal a game, with 34 goals in 34 matches that season.

The following season, in 2013/14, where Ronaldo won the European golden boot, Ronaldo also scored twelve goals in his first eleven games after yet another slow start, where he failed to score while the season was in its infancy. In his next seven matches, he scored three times when his season was interrupted by injury and suspensions. Then his next six games saw him score five in his next six matches. After 24 matches, he found his goal tally to be at 20, which left a final stretch of six games for him to show that he could still be considered amongst the best in the game. In that time, he managed to find the net on 11 occasions, finishing the season in a flurry. His final goal tally was 31 goals in 30 appearances.

So, with recent history in mind, it seems that Ronaldo normally starts the season slowly, and begins to improve his goal scoring statistics by this stage of the season before falling off for the middle stages a little bit. Then towards the back end of the season, he makes up for his faltering form to maintain the goal scoring ratio that he achieves after 11 matches.

This season, things might change, given how early he seems to have peaked, but given the historical record, he should be able to maintain his form, even if he needs to make up for it at the end of the season.

With all this said, there is enough evidence to suggest that Ronaldo can post a record goal tally this season.

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