The former Real Madrid forward often gets called it on social media – but what does it mean and how accurate is it?
Five Champions League titles, three Premier League wins and five Ballons d'Or – and yet, there is a certain aspect of Cristiano Ronaldo's goalscoring that is routinely called into question.
The term 'Penaldo' seems to pop up whenever the Portugal superstar scores a goal from the penalty spot, which is often. Due to his former Real Madrid credentials, some Barcelona-leaning fans are partial to the rather uncomplimentary nickname, which suggests that they think that Ronaldo scores most of his goals from penalties.
A portmanteau of the word 'penalty' and 'Ronaldo', the term proposes that since a large portion of the striker's goals are spot kicks, they are not 'true' goals.
"You have to look at the statistics," the Juventus ace has said about the moniker. "How many goals have I scored for Real Madrid? And they are not all penalties.
"I will score as many as I can - 600, 700, as many as I can. They will all be there for people to see.
"And anyone who wants to can go to YouTube to see all the goals I have scored..."
Ronaldo scored his 100th and 101st penalties of his entire senior career in January 2018 against Valencia in La Liga. He has since taken over from Paulo Dybala as penalty taker at Juventus, despite coach Massimiliano Allegri's statement that the two would share the duties.
How many penalties has Ronaldo scored?
While at Real Madrid, Ronaldo scored 450 goals in all competitions with 79 of those being penalties – which means that 17.38 per cent of his goals have come from the spot.
*At Real Madrid in all competitions
*At Real Madrid
Though Ronaldo has scored many of his career's goals from the spot, penalty taking itself requires a great deal of skill and technique to execute successfully. Being able to keep your cool in a 1v1 situation against the goalkeeper in one of the most high-pressure moments in the sport.
Ronaldo's stats suggest he's one of the most accurate and reliable penalty takers in modern football. He has an 85.90% success rate with his spot kicks, scoring 79 penalties from 92 taken.
Ronaldo's penalty record is significantly better than that of his Barcelona rival Lionel Messi, who is the designated penalty taker for club and country (while active with Argentina). In La Liga, Messi has taken 90 penalties for Barcelona with 68 of those successful, sporting a success rate of 75.56%.
tropicalda
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Scoring penalties is an art. You go one-to-one with the goalie and it’s a battle you should win, if you are a top player. Ronaldo is one of the best penalty takers in the game and it works in his favour that he rarely misses in the big games..scoring from penalties is not easy as we can see in the recent example where messi missed to score goal from the penalty spot... The ‘Penaldo’ comments are made by haters who point out that Ronaldo scores only penalties
Iamsamson
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Haters can hate any thing good ..... penaldo or goalnaldo .... CR7 is the greatest and the best player football has ever seeing .... tell me a player who is better are the things he does ? Was it not thesame haters who claimed our very own LIONEL MESSI is a one skill player? This group of haters will see a DIAMOND 💎 and claim the it’s a mud .... give them GOLD and you will hear them say it’s a stone ....... give the hater 5 penalties to take.,,, let’s see their best 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ LETS THANK GOD FOR GIVING US CR7 and LMESSI ...enjoy them while the still play football and stop HATING....it takes 11 good players plus good coach and supporters to win trophies
ht2017
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ronaldo got 92 chance and messi 90 , whats a difference in terms of penalty chance ...both same but ronaldo performed well in term of conversion so messi fan and ronaldo haters named him like this. But as per stat , he is best penalty taker too.
KelvinDan
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See it, weather you like it or not
Shagun
41
I can say Ronaldo is the greatest of all time and has the largest arsenal of weapoms in his forwardism. I respect Messi and Messi is the 2nd best player in the world of thisgeneration at least. Love one respect both.
KelvinDan
37
This is how you distinguish between #ʙᴜғғᴏᴏɴs and actual football Fans. Cos seriously I can't imagine myself hating a player because he doesn't satisfy me like another, everyone is created and has different personalities and vulnerabilities. SOMEONE'S success shouldn't make you Angry; it rather should motivate and brighten up your spirit.
yoheilrsu
10
yes!!!! be aware of the modern dog!!!
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so he's a modern dog...., Ronaldo has taken 92 penalties for Real Madrid, While Messi took 90 penalties. So technically speaking Messi is also a dog who smells penalties right?! According to you!