VIDEO As Michael Jordan for the Chicago Bulls: Savior Ronaldo saved United again and again

BERGAMO – For the third time in a row, the biggest star of the Cristiano Ronaldo team saved Manchester United footballers in the Champions League. The 36-year-old Portuguese scored both “red devils” goals on Tuesday in a 2: 2 draw at Atalanta Bergamo and kept his team at the head of the group F. Ronaldo pushed through again at the end of the match and earned a comparison from coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to basketball legend and NBA winner Michael Jordan.

“Everyone on the team has a role to play, Cristiano is the scorer and leader. He is for us as Michael Jordan was for the Chicago Bulls. These champions make great teams. If you want to have someone in the goal chance in the last minute of the match, you wish it was Cristiano, “ told BT Sport Solskjaer, alluding to Jordan’s ability to decide matches at the very end of the match.

Ronald has been doing the same in the Champions League in recent matches. In the home duel with Villarreal, he completed a 2: 1 turn in the fifth minute of the setting, in the first match with Bergamo, he arranged another “turn” to 3: 2 with a goal in the 81st minute. In the game, Atalanty scored with a heavy volley in the first minute.

We never give up

United lost twice, just like at Old Trafford, but they were able to react. Ronaldo responded to Iličič’s shot from the 12th minute shortly before the break and Zapatov’s goal from the 56th minute was not the winner.

“The beginning of the match didn’t work out for us, Atalanta put us under pressure. Even when I played for Juventus against them, it was always a difficult meeting. But we never give up, we always believe until the end.” assured the historically best scorer of the “millionaire competition” Ronaldo, who scored in each of the four meetings of the basic group this year and has five goals.

The five-time holder of the Golden Ball scored nine goals in 11 competitive matches after his summer return to Manchester, but his old-new team is not succeeding according to his ideas. According to some critics, this may also be related to the change in style of play after Ronald’s arrival.

Is Ronaldo in the team a problem?

“Some people even say that Ronaldo is the biggest problem of today’s United. Imagine that Ronaldo in the team is a problem!” Bergama coach Gian Piero Gasperini shook his head at a press conference, with only words of praise for the star Portuguese.

In the Premier League, however, the reigning vice-champions are already losing eight points from fifth place to the Chelsea leader, and even in the Champions League they are far from confirming their role as the group’s clear favorite. The “red devils” have two points more in the balanced group F than Bergamo and the same points as the second Villarreal. A key duel on the Spanish opponent’s field awaits United in the next round, Bergamo will present himself in Bern.

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