Cristiano Ronaldo stole the show at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium last night as the Champions League winners Real Madrid, Europe’s most expensive ever team, gave a master class in finishing as they beat Europa League winners Sevilla 2-0.

Ronaldo cut a forlorn figure in Brazil this summer as the Portugal team failed to make it out of their group and where their national hero looked a forlorn figure. 

This occasion could not have been more different. His two goals were well taken, the second of superb quality , and he looked fit, re-energised, and lived up to his title of the world’s finest footballer.

Cristiano Ronaldo slotted home the first after thirty minute. He fed local boy Gareth Bale out on the left and then motored sixty metres to slide home Bale’s pinpoint cross.

The Ballon d'Or winner added a second goal minutes after the break. Sevilla must be sick of the sight of Ronaldo, who has now scored eighteen times against them in four years.

The majority of forwards would be happy with that return in one season; he has achieved it against one club.

Gareth Bale, given a heroes reception in his native Wales, almost added a third with the final kick of the evening but Portugal’s Beto, in Sevilla’s goal, flung himself acrobatically to save. Madrid now boast a team of superstars who complement each other and who would bet against them becoming the first team to successfully defend the Champions League title.

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