Cristiano Ronaldo, the Champions
League’s top scorer this season with 13 goals, can add to his tally and
extend his record against German clubs in the knockout stages at
Wolfsburg, AFP reports.
The 31-year-old is currently four short
of matching his record in a Champions League season ahead of
Wednesday’s
quarter-final, first leg, at the German league club with the return
next Tuesday at the Bernabeu.
The Portuguese star is on a rich run
against Bundesliga sides and has found the net in all of the last six
knockout ties played against German clubs in the Champions League.
It started back in the 2011/12
semi-finals when he bagged a brace against Bayern Munich as the Bavarian
giants went on to suffer heartbreak in the final at home to Chelsea.
In the 2012/13 campaign, he netted
against Borussia Dortmund as the German side reached the final at
Wembley when they lost to Bayern.
But in the 2013/14 campaign, when Real
achieved ‘La Decima’, he notched a total of seven goals across the home
and away meetings with Schalke, Borussia and Bayern.
Then last season, he claimed three goals
in the last-16 tie against Schalke in a 5-4 aggregate win, netting
twice in the shock 4-3 defeat in Madrid having also scored when Real won
2-0 in Gelsenkirchen.
A home Champions League quarter-final
against Ronaldo and Real is a dream tie for the Wolfsburg squad, who are
without a win in their last three games.
“You can only be impressed with Cristiano Ronaldo,” said Wolfsburg’s Germany international Julian Draxler.
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