Ronaldo becomes Real Madrid’s all-time top goalscorer
Javi Guerra had opened the scoring for the visitors at the Camp Nou in the 15th, and Jozabed Sanchez scored Rayo’s second goal in the 86th.
Neymar said it was one of his best games with Barcelona since joining the Catalan club two years ago.
“I am happy for the goal, but the most important thing is the three goals”, he said. “We struggled a bit, but we did our job”.
Respected Spanish journalist Guillem Balague has claimed that this season could well be Cristiano Ronaldo’s last at Real Madrid, with Paris Saint-Germain reportedly interested.
Barca were soon in front as an outrageous piece of skill from Neymar provoked Nacho into committing another penalty and this time Neymar slotted the ball to Tono’s left.
After that season he scored more than 50 goals a season.
Meanwhile, Messi continues to recover from injury, although Barcelona managed just fine without him vs.
While Barnett also said that there is no problem between the £80million men, the overwhelming feeling in Madrid is that the two don’t see eye-to-eye, despite Benitez weighing in with the latest denial. “I wanted to sign Bale who we had been following since 2006 but in the end Tottenham paid a lot of money for him”, he continued.
However, after disappointing performances in draws against Malaga and Atletico Madrid before the worldwide break, the Bernabeu faithful quickly became restless after another slow start from their side.
“Cristiano took on the responsibility because we lacked forwards”, Real coach Rafa Benitez, missing regulars Karim Benzema, James Rodriguez, Luka Modric and Sergio Ramos through injury, told a news conference.
Raheem Sterling’s hat-trick and a Wilfried Bony double helped leaders City to a 5-1 home win against Bournemouth while a few miles down the motorway United thumped Everton 3-0 with Wayne Rooney scoring his first away league goal for 11 months.
Ronaldo hit his 324th goal in 310 games for Madrid just three minutes after Marcelo had given the hosts the lead midway through the first half, moving ahead of Raul as the club’s leading marksman. “Wednesday’s match against Real will be completely different, we will be playing at home against one of the best teams in the world, it will be nice to play”.