It is just a number but what a number. Seven hundred club goals. More than the Brazilian Ronaldo and Marco van Basten mustered between them. More than the trio of Gary Lineker, Bobby Charlton and Paolo Rossi got when their efforts were combined. Seven hundred.
Two decades and two days since he first scored for Sporting Lisbon against Moreirense, Cristiano Ronaldo became the inaugural member of the 700 club in a manner that felt familiar. Few have cut in from the left wing with such regularity and such potency. The driving run, the drilled finish, the sheer professionalism about the process of scoring goals: it was Ronaldo in a nutshell.
