
Naturally, it was all about Cristiano Ronaldo. It often is, to be honest, but especially when he scores a late winner, especially when that late winner completes a hat-trick, and especially when that hat-trick helps him move clear as the highest-scoring player of all time in the record books.
There was something about Ronaldo even before kick-off on Saturday. You could see it in the way he was striking the ball during the pre-match warm up. Even when one of his practice shots from range pinged back off the post, it did so with the same venom that he had put into it, the same menace he was about to put into his performance.