Ronaldo levels La Liga penalty record by Hugo Sanchez for Real Madrid
Real Madrid’s Sunday match against Sevilla ended with the scoreboard reading Sevilla 2-1 Real Madrid, with the goal in favour of Real being scored by Ronaldo as a penalty shot. The team’s unfortunate 2-1 loss to Sevilla is important for CR7, though, as Ronaldo levels La Liga penalty record by Hugo Sanchez for Real Madrid vs Sevilla. The record for penalty shots La Liga is set at 56, keeping him well ahead of his long-term rival Lionel Messi in this viewpoint.
Ronaldo levels La Liga penalty record by Hugo Sanchez for Real Madrid
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In the midst of Madrid’s failure at losing the game, and the end of their record strek of 40 unbeaten matches, Ronaldo’s individual record met with restricted celebrations only, as he levelled the record previously set my ex-Madrid player and Atletico Madrid and Rayo Vallecano striker Hugo Sanchez back in mid 1990s. Ronaldo’s numbers reveal that he has a better conversion rate. Having successfully converted 56 of 65 penalty shots in 249 La Liga games for Real Madrid, CR7 has a conversion rate of 86 percent, as opposed to Sanchez’s 79 percent, which he reached by netting 56 shots out of 65 penalty opportunities in 347 matches.
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After Ronaldo set this new penalty record for Real Madrid, the official social page of Carrusel Deportivo Tweeted “Cristiano Ronaldo ha igualado a Hugo Sánchez como el jugador que más penaltis ha marcado en la historia de la Liga (56)”, which in Enlish translates to “Cristiano Ronaldo has equaled Hugo Sánchez as the player who has scored the most penalties in league history (56).”
Over all competitions, Ronaldo has now taken 80 penalty shots for his club, exluding shootouts, and converted 69 of them successfully, to gain 86% conversion rate. His overall percentage is 82, having scored 98 penalties out of 119 shots for his nation and clubs, during his tenure as a soccer player. This season, Real and Sevilla have had the most penalties granted to them. Ronaldo has missed only one, spared by his previous colleague Fernando Pacheco who is presently at Alaves, while scoring five times. The Portugal captain likewise missed one of the two taken for his nation amid their 4-1 World Cup 2018 qualifier win against Latvia in November.