Jérôme Boateng talks about how Bayern can stop Cristiano Ronaldo | OneFootball

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Lewis Ambrose·23 April 2018

Jérôme Boateng talks about how Bayern can stop Cristiano Ronaldo

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Cristiano Ronaldo has scored nine goals in six matches against Bayern Munich.

Last season’s quarter-final saw the Portuguese score five across 210 minutes, so how can Bayern handle him this week.


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“We can only stop Cristiano Ronaldo as a team,” defender Jérôme Boateng told German magazine kicker.

“In front of goal, he’s like a machine. You can’t shut him out completely, he always gets his chances in a game because of the lines he runs and his excellent timing.

“Real Madrid base their game around him and it’s important we give him as little room as possible.”

Obviously it just isn’t that simple and the rest of Real Madrid’s talent means you can’t focus on Ronaldo alone.

Whatever happens this week, Bayern will have to get to grips with Ronaldo better than they did 13 months ago, otherwise the semi-final is already as good as over.