From Cristiano to sub zero

Kiev received Real Madrid with freezing temperatures and Shakhtar left the whites to zero. The Madrid team was left without scoring for the third game this season. The Ukrainians dried up the whites as Real Sociedad and Cádiz did before. It would not be more than one piece of information. Anecdotal. But, seen in perspective, it illustrates the goal that Madrid has lost since Cristiano Ronaldo left. Without the Portuguese, Madrid are left without scoring in almost one out of every five games (19.51%). In the nine seasons with CR7, whether the star played or not, he was unable to score in less than one in eleven games (8.86%). Madrid's inability to score has more than doubled without the now Juventus player.

Madrid played 519 official matches in the nine seasons in which Cristiano Ronaldo defended the Real Madrid shirt. The six-time Ballon d'Or winner participated in 438 of them. Playing or not the one that was his great star for almost a decade, Madrid were able to score 1,378 goals, an average of 2.66 goals per game (In the 2011-2012 season, he reached 3 goals per game). He was unmarked in 46 games (8.86%) and scored at least two goals in 383 (73.8%). In 13 games he scored more than six goals. His record was the double hand (10-2) that he did to Rayo Vallecano, with Bale's poker, hat-trick from Benzema, Cristiano's own double and goal from Danilo.

After Cristiano's departure, Madrid have played 123 games in which they have scored 232 goals, an average of 1.89. It has remained unmarked in 24, 19.51%. Only in 57.7% of the games has he been able to score at least two goals. His maximum score in the same game has been six goals: in the second leg of the 2018-19 Cup round of 32 against Melilla (6-1) and Galatasaray in the group stage of the last Champions League (6-0) . In fact, as soon as the Portuguese left, Madrid linked at the beginning of 2018-19 the second longest unmarked streak in its history: 481 minutes without scoring, including four complete games. The worst date of 1985, in which he added 495 minutes without seeing the goal.

Cristiano scored 32.7% of the team's goals while he was at Madrid. Now, the team scores 29% fewer goals. That is to say, Madrid has only found a replacement to supply 11.3% of the goals scored by the Portuguese, that except in his first campaign, in all the others he scored more than 40 goals.

This season Madrid have scored 25 goals in 15 games, at an average of 1.67 per game. To stay, It would be the worst average for whites since the 1999-2000 season in which they scored 106 goals in 65 games (1.63 on average). That year, Madrid won the Eighth, but was fifth in the League.