VIDEO: Cristiano Ronaldo Scores Five, Breaks Real Madrid Record

Cristiano Ronaldo scored five goals in Real Madrid’s impressive win over Espanyol, defeating the Catalan club by a whopping score of 6-0 (Karim Benzema had the other goal).

With this amazing display of sheer offensive force, Ronaldo surpassed Raúl as the leading scorer in Real Madrid history, Raúl has 228 goals and Ronaldo now has 231 goals. He is also La Liga’s fourth leading scorer with only Messi, Zarra, and Hugo Sánchez having scored more goals in the Spanish league’s history.

Ronaldo commenced the scoring with an early seventh minute goal that saw Real Madrid go up 1-0, and ten minutes later Espanyol conceded a penalty in the box that Ronaldo calmly took to give Los Blancos a two-goal lead.

Just three minutes later, Ronaldo scored his third achieving his hat-trick in only 20 minutes, Real Madrid’s fastest hat-trick since Pepillo in 1960. It was this goal that gave Ronaldo the team record, eclipsing Raúl’s 228 goals with his own 229. Up 3-0, Los Merengues were in cruise control and in the 28th minute it was Ronaldo that set up Karim Benzema for the 4-nil lead.

The first half would end on that note, but Ronaldo was still not done, looking to silence critics that chastised him for his recent lack of effort and his “scoring drought” of late. In the 61st minute Ronaldo struck again and then again 20 minutes later, scoring both goals from inside the area thanks to quality crosses from Lucas and Gareth Bale.

Bale would end up with two assists, Lucas, Ronaldo, and Modric would end their nights with an assist each as well.

The slaughter of Espanyol would end at 6-0 and Ronaldo certainly earned the man of the match award, accomplishing his mission of silencing the pundits, at least for the time being.

View all of Ronaldo’s goals:

 

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