Will the real Cristiano Ronaldo please stand up?Real Madrid faces a tough test on Wednesday when it visits Swedish club Malmo in its second Champions League tilt of the season.
Lionel Messi is undeniably the most effective player in the world. While a lot was made of his early season scoring struggles, he was contributing in other major ways for his team have amounted to promising victories.
Look at the Premier League standings and you will see something quite shocking - the reigning English champs reside in 15th place.That's right, Chelsea, the team that dominated a season ago is now struggling to put together wins. In fact, through seven games, Jose Mourinho's side has only secured two wins.It has not been a pretty picture and the season is still too early to jump to any conclusions. Yet there are somethings not working this year that were behind the team's title run. Here they are.
We're six weeks into the 2015-16 La Liga season, and things couldn't be more surprising. Barcelona and Real Madrid suffered badly in Week 6. Villarreal has taken over the top spot.
It was a horrid week for the two most renowned superstars in the world. While Robert Lewandowski finished his week with seven goals in two games, both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi continued looking to add to their goal totals but only continued to find inconsistency.
Manchester City will look to bounce back, while Manchester United and Leicester City are eyeing the top spot when they see action in Week 7 of the 2015-16 English Premier League season.
Robert Lewandowski made tremendous headlines earlier this week when he scored a whopping five goals in nine minutes to seal a 5-1 win for Bayern Munich against Wolfsburg. It was undeniably the best performance of the year with the Pole matching the five-goal feat of Cristiano Ronaldo from a few weeks earlier.
Yesterday we took a look at Cristiano Ronaldo's seeming inconsistency throughout the start of the year, but he is not the only one struggling to score goals. Lionel Messi, the man destined to win the Ballon d'Or in a matter of months has actually been worse at finishing in 2015-16 than his great rival.
Cristiano Ronaldo has eight goals in 2015-16. That is certainly a respectable number, especially considering that he has accrued that total over six games.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is under fire for a poor start of the season. Former Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti and ex-Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp are possible candidates to replace Rodgers once he is dismissed.
Real Madrid takes on Athletic Bilbao in arguably the team’s biggest challenge yet. Real Madrid takes on Athletic Bilbao in arguably the team’s biggest challenge yet.
Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma said that Blues striker Diego Costa likes to cheat in a match, but he later insisted that his statement was not an attack against their superstar.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi having finally arrived after struggling through the opening few weeks of the season. Both superstars got two chances to prove their mettle in week four of the 2015-16 season - once in the Champions League and a second time in the Spanish league. Both stars faced challenging UCL matches and "easy" Liga games and wound up with contrasting results in both games.Which superstar was the winner of week 4?
Manchester City took their first defeat of the season but are still on top of the English Premier League 2015-16 season standings, while Manchester United moved up to second spot.
Real Madrid's injury situation has turned into a crisis with the recent news that Gareth Bale will be out for a few matches. Add Sergio Ramos' dislocated shoulder on top of James Rodriguez and Danilo's own injuries and the team suddenly has a lot less depth than it did to start the year.
Jurgen Klopp is continuously being linked to a move to the English Premier League, but the former Borussia Dortmund coach is reportedly playing a waiting game.
