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Christian Post Report – Cristiano Ronaldo, who received criticisms after Real Madrid’s loss to Atletico Madrid, still gets the trust of Coach Carlo Ancelotti as he looks to repeat his hat trick-highlighted performance against Deportivo in the first round.
Real Madrid look to extend their winning streak to three games as they host Eibar at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in the Spanish La Liga on Saturday. The game will kick off at 10 a.m. ET and can be watched online through live stream (details below).
Madrid are currently second in the La Liga, four points behind leaders Barcelona with only a handful of games remaining in their season.
Following their 2-1 loss to the Catalan team, Madrid responded with a big 9-1 thrashing of Granada.
In that home win, Cristiano Ronaldo scored five goals to dominate the game and show that he is still arguably the best player in the world.
After four days, they traveled to meet Rayo Vallecano and Ronaldo scored in the 68th minute to give Madrid the lead.
James Rodriguez then went on to double the advantage in the 73rd minute to secure the victory and take home three points.
Rodriguez increased his goal tally to nine this season, while Ronaldo has 37 goals in only 27 appearances in the league.
Meanwhile, Eibar are sitting in 14th place in the league and are trying to avoid dropping to the relegation zone.
They recently broke their 11 game winless run with a 1-0 over Malaga.
Prior to the victory, Eibar only managed to get two points from that stretch of 11 games with draws against Cordoba and Granada.
Even worse is that they have had difficulty scoring goals as they have only five goals in that time frame.
With only a few games left in their schedule, they will need to rack up points as they are only six points away from being dropped to the second division next year.
In their first meeting earlier in the season, Madrid dominated the game and got goals from Rodriguez, Ronaldo, and Karim Benzema.
Madrid dominated the possession as they held the ball 58% of the time, squeezing out 10 shots with three on target.
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Source : Christian Post