Ronaldo top of Champions League scoring charts
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
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Cristiano Ronaldo may have drawn a blank on Wednesday but the Real Madrid striker still has a two-goal cushion at the head of this season's group stage scoring charts.
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Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo is the UEFA Champions League top scorer at the midway point of the group stage.
2015/16 UEFA Champions League top scorers
5 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
3 Vincent Aboubakar (Porto)
3 Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moskva)
3 Nicolás Gaitán (Benfica)
3 Javier Hernández (Bayer Leverkusen)
3 Hulk (Zenit)
3 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern München)
Fifteen players have scored two group stage goals.
Ronaldo drew a blank against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday but had already racked up five goals in Madrid's first two games, including a hat-trick against Shakhtar Donetsk on matchday one. There are six players two goals adrift of the Portuguese international at the head of the scoring charts.
Ronaldo jointly holds the record – with Luiz Adriano, formerly of Shakhtar and now at Milan – for most goals in a single group stage, having struck nine times in 2013/14. That was the third season he finished the competition as leading scorer, having also topped the pile in 2007/08 and 2012/13. He was level on ten goals with Lionel Messi and Neymar last term.
