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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Samuel Meade

Cristiano Ronaldo's iconic Nou Camp moment that saw sanctioned threat in record season

Cristiano Ronaldo, forever the man for the big occasion, silenced the Nou Camp a decade ago en route to ending Barcelona's LaLiga dominance.

Jose Mourinho was hired to end the Catalans' stranglehold of the Spanish top flight in 2010, arriving as the European champion following his success with Inter Milan - ironically in the Bernabeu - following their Champions League final success over Bayern Munich.

It was clear that Ronaldo, then the world's most expensive player, would be central to his plans as he aimed to suppress Pep Guardiola's seemingly irrepressible Barcelona outfit, who had won successive LaLiga titles before making it a hat-trick in 2011. A year later though and the Catalans were playing catch-up, but knew a win at the Nou Camp in the Clasico in April would swing things back in their favour.

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