Unai Emery: "Ronaldo and Madrid deliver in big games"

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Ronaldo's Champions League form was never in doubt this season - he became the first player in history to score in each group game, scoring nine times in the six games.

The Belgian global was on the cover of a major Spanish daily today, and that vanilla soundbite above may be grabbing the headlines right now in relation to this story, but the real substance, the true takeaway here, is what Hazard had to say about Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane.

The Real Madrid superstar endured a bad start to the season and spent the first half of the campaign struggling to find the net as his team stumbled time and again, leading to arch rivals Barcelona holding a commanding 19-point lead heading into the weekend.

The Spaniard has proven over the course of the last two seasons that he has ability and maturity in abundance, as exemplified by some massively impressive displays for Zinedine Zidane's side. "He's a superb player and he's shown that, it's not true we want to sell him".

Sergio Ramos admitted Real Madrid was thinking about Thursday's (AEDT) UEFA Champions League tie against Paris Saint-Germain during its 5-2 defeat of Real Sociedad in LaLiga on Sunday (AEDT).

Reports on Thursday had suggested that Isco was to be shipped out of Santiago Bernabeu after he failed to impress Zidane in the matches he had been handed opportunities in.

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"I want Isco [in my team] and I want him to spend his whole life here".

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"The most important thing for me is the team. They have those kinds of players and we do too". "We have had a very good first part of the season".

Out of the Cup and struggling in the league, Madrid's entire season now hangs on progress in Europe and failure to reach the last eight would mean this could be viewed as one of the worst campaigns in the club's history.

"We have so many games and I'll have to call on all of them". Diario AS caught up with the former madridista before the game to discuss the game and his feelings about meeting his old employers and warns that however poor Real Madrid's recent results have been, there is no such thing as an ideal time to take them on.

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Unai Emery: "Ronaldo and Madrid deliver in big games"

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