ronaldo and free-kicks. pic.twitter.com/NIFktdKOw8
— CULTURE SZN (@CULTURESZN_) April 20, 2020
Ronaldo used to be able to score off free kicks with alarming regularity.However after getting to 55 freekicked goals(three more than Messi) since 2014, he has only found the net nine times from a total of 174 attempts from free-kicks. That’s the worst success rate (5%) of any player to have scored at least five in that time frame.
He is currently the second worst free kick taker in Serie A history – scoring 0 goals in 38 attempts.
The scientific and biological reasons for this sad decline are explained very lucidly here.