Of Ronaldo's haul in Europe's top competition, he has managed 82 for Real Madrid. However, when it comes to deciding a crucial encounter, there are very few more reliable than Ronaldo and the Portuguese showed there are still plenty of years left in him with another impressive performance on the grand stage. Ronaldo scored two clever poacher's finishes, turning a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead.
Arturo Vidal put Bayern ahead in a dominant first-half for Bayern, but Madrid battled back in the second-half, scoring twice through their talismanic forward Cristiano Ronaldo.
Bayern's Arturo Vidal opened the scoring and missed a penalty before Ronaldo volleyed the equalizer in the 47th minute and scored the victor 13 minutes from time when he was picked out by Marco Asenio and finished calmly.
Bayern were dealt another blow with a half-hour to play when Javi Martinez was sent off for a second yellow card within three minutes for fouls on Ronaldo.
Real pressed home the numerical advantage but Zidane warned the slender lead may not be enough.
That was Ronaldo's only goal in his first 32 European games for Sporting Lisbon and United, but he has now reached three figures from only 143 matches - all but three of which have come in the Champions League proper.
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Vidal came close to adding a second not long before the interval, too, when Arjen Robben squirmed his way down the right flank and to the goal line before his cross was headed just wide of the net by his Chilean team-mate.
While Ronaldo and Benzema, along with goalkeeper Keylor Navas, will rest when Madrid visits Sporting Gijon, coach Zinedine Zidane said on Friday that an unidentified leg injury will keep Bale from playing. "That is his ambition. We will see. We hope it is not much, but in the end I am happy with the substitution and what [Asensio] did on the pitch". "In the return leg we will have to dig and we know that".
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"It's not the first time and it won't be the last", Ancelotti said of the missed penalty, calling it one of the "small details" which decided the game.
"Sometimes you miss a penalty, that was not the first one, and it will not be the last one, but we can build on the first half". The sending-off changed the match completely.
"We don't have a big chance, but we still have a chance - we're still alive", the Italian said. I think it's a good result for us. We still have 90 minutes, and we'll give it everything.
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