Cristiano Ronaldo 101

Ronaldo (and MU) must had thought that his goal had secured all 3 points for Manchester United at the clash of the season so far against league leader Arsenal, but William Gallas spoiled United’s celebration with an injury time equalizer.

Both teams are level on points, before or after the match. Arsenal is on top with better goal advantage, and with a game in hand.

Arsenal dominated possessions in the first half, but couldn’t make the possessions into anything dangerous. In fact, it’s United that showed more effectiveness with their attacks; they came close twice with Ryan Giggs before getting their opener on the 44th minute with a Gallas’s own goal… but Rooney would probably take credit for that.

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Cristiano Ronaldo believes Manchester United will retain their Premier League title and win a third European Cup after a solid start to the season.

The Portuguese winger has scored six goals to help United to second in the domestic table and to win their opening three games in the Champions League.

And the 22-year-old said: “I believe we will win the Premier League and the Champions League this season.

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Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez is beginning to look like a deadly strike force as they contributed 3 out of the 4 goals in Manchester United victory.

Nani scored a stunner in the 3rd minute for United before Jeremie Aliadiere equalized for Boro just minutes later… but it’s all about United dominating the game after that.

Rooney took back the lead for United on 33rd minute, thanks to a blunder from Stewart Downing.

Tevez then scored United’s 3rd and 4th goal in the 2nd half after some great play with Rooney. The 3rd goal in particular was a real gem.

Ronaldo played well too despite not scoring… he has to let the other boys shine once in a while.

Cristiano Ronaldo returned in red to haunt former club Sporting Lisbon and ensure Manchester United made a winning start to their latest Champions League quest with a 1-0 victory.

Ronaldo spent seven years wearing Sporting green before he left for Old Trafford in 2003 with a £12.2million price tag and became a megastar.

But the brilliant Portugal winger had warned there would be no old pals act at the Jose Alvalade Stadium, the ground on which he first came to Sir Alex Ferguson’s attention in a friendly meeting between the teams four years ago.

And Ronaldo matched his words with deeds as he arrived with perfect timing to finish off Wes Brown’s low cross and provide the Red Devils with only their third Champions League away win in 15 encounters.

Having refused to state yesterday whether he would celebrate any goal, Ronaldo restricted himself to a low, double-fisted salute before an almost apologetic bow to the home supporters, who offered the winger a standing ovation when he was replaced by Carlos Tevez four minutes from time.

[Soccernet]

Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off in United’s EPL match against Portsmouth, which ended in a 1-1 draw at Fratton Park.

2 draws in a row for Manchester United… the season is still early, but it’s not spelling good for the Red Devils.

To make thing worse, Ronaldo’s headbutt and the red card means that he is going to miss the next match for sure, and is almost certain that he will miss another 2 more matches after FA revealing the incident.

With Wayne Rooney (and a few others) already out of injury, Ronaldo’s suspension is going to cause some real headache for United manager Alex Ferguson.

This is the red-card incident video, not very clear though…