Ronaldo scored his 99th and 100th goals in European competition, with his brace in their 2-1 win over Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Wednesday. The Portuguese star ensured Madrid came from behind - after Arturo Vidal's 25th-minute header for Bayern - to put the defending champions on course to reach the semifinals for a seventh successive year.
The German side were without its top-scorer, Robert Lewandowski, after he failed to recover from a knock to his right shoulder.
5 - Carlo Ancelotti lost the battle of wits against his former pupil Zinedine Zidane, whom he mentored during his spell in charge of Italian champions Juventus, and later becme his trusted assistant in Madrid for an historic Decima.
Zidane was delighted with Real Madrid's 2-1 away win but said that nothing is won yet, and that his team will have to "suffer" at the Bernabeu next Tuesday. "It's not easy to play here against a really hard team and, losing 1-0 in the first half, we had good feelings about the second". "We needed patience to decide the match".
"I saw Juve play, they seemed to be in good shape and very strong".
Bayern forced several corners early on and the sixth finally paid off when Vidal headed home through Keylor Navas' fingers.
The Chile midfielder, though, wasted a chance to double the German club's advantage in first-half stoppage time when he blasted a penalty over the crossbar after what looked a poor handball decision against Dani Carvajal. The Madrid defender was booked though TV replays showed Ribery's shot had hit his upper body.
MF Franck Ribery, 7 - Turned 34 last Friday, but Bayern's second-longest-serving player continues to turn back the clock, winning the penalty that Vidal wasted in an energetic and inventive first-half performance. "This can happen in football".
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Real were level two minutes after the break when Carvajal found space on the right and fired in a cross which Ronaldo volleyed past Neuer.
Bayern played the last half an hour a man down after centre-back Javi Martinez was sent off for two fouls on Ronaldo within three minutes of each other.
"The sending off was the turning point", Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said.
But Madrid had already forced the home side back.
Four-time world player of the year Ronaldo then slotted in the victor between goalkeeper Manuel Neuer's legs for the victor 13 minutes from time.
"Their goalkeeper saved lots of chances".
Real's superstar then hit the victor as substitute Marco Asensio, on for Bale, put in a low pass for Ronaldo to tap the ball home between Neuer's legs. Between the 73rd and 77th minutes, Madrid had six shots with Ronaldo's second coming in the 77th minute.
It could have been worse for Bayern - Sergio Ramos had a goal ruled out late for offside.
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