Former Bayern Manchester United and Bayern Munich midfielder, Owen Hargreaves has come to speak on “Ronaldo is the problem in United team” the England International said he laughs to himself when people criticize Cristiano Ronaldo. Owen Hargreaves slammed those saying the Portuguese are the problem In the Manchester United team, adding that without Ronaldo, they would be nowhere near where they are now.
He made this known after Ronaldo scored his hat-trick on his return to the club. The hat-trick helped Manchester United climb to fifth place in the league table on Saturday. The Portugal legend scored two goals inside 32 minutes but two goals from the visitors either side of half-time set up a tense ending to the game.
With 14 minutes to go, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner stepped up to take a free-kick, and rifled it past Tim Krul to earn Ralf Rangnick’s side all three points. Owen Hargreaves said: “How on earth is he the problem? He’s one of the only reasons they are where they are.” “David De Gea has been their player of the season, and Cristiano Ronaldo is a close second. Not many people played well today, but Cristiano did.”
“That game could’ve been anything, but Ronaldo gets the job done we know that. And credit it to him. He just showed he’s huge in big moments.”
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