Cristiano Ronaldo he retired dazed against Brentford. The Man Utd I was up on the scoreboard, there were spaces, I was comfortable and it was a good opportunity to score. But Ralf Rangnick changed him and the Portuguese did not take it well. Anger and first bad face at United.
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Ronaldo left muttering and sat on the bench at Brentford Community Stadium with a frown on his face.
Rangnick had to approach him to explain the reason for the change, with twenty minutes still to go and the rival open.
The fury of CR7
“It’s normal what happened, a striker always wants to score,” said the German, who brought in central defender Harry Maguire instead of Cristiano, to save his clothes and avoid another setback like the one suffered against Aston Villa, who drew them 2-2 -0 in the final minutes. “I didn’t want that to happen again and I wanted to keep the door clean.”
But Cristiano, who has not scored since last December 30 against Burnley, wanted an explanation. “He just asked me ‘why me? Why did you take me off?” Rangnick said. “I had to make the best decision for the team. I didn’t want to repeat the mistake against Villa. I understand that Cristiano is ambitious, but, if he ever becomes a coach, he will realize that he would make the same decision after 70 minutes of the match.”
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“I didn’t expect him to give me a hug after being substituted. I know how scorers think and I had to make this decision. I have no problems with him,” he added.
To all this is added that Cristiano came from not playing the last two games due to injury. The Portuguese had some muscular discomfort that prevented him from being against Villa in the FA Cup and in the Premier.
“He just recovered from injury and has been out for ten days. We had the options of Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial on the bench, so why not use them? I would make the same decision again.”
Rashford himself made it 0-3, but United failed to keep a clean sheet for the fifth successive Premier League game.
“I’ve been here for six weeks and I’ve never had a problem with Cristiano. We talked about his injury before the cup match against Villa and we agreed that he wouldn’t play. Today he was available and we decided to start him,” added Rangnick to close the first brush between Cristiano since he landed in this United.
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