Memorable moments: Cristiano Ronaldo scissors in one of the best goals of the Champions League

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored many wonderful goals in his career. With over 800 of them, there are plenty to choose from. But there is one he values most of all. Scissoring in the Champions League quarter-final against Juventus.

Memorable Moments is a special project by Ruiku that recalls the most iconic moments that have happened in football. Today, we look back at Cristiano Ronaldo’s scissors.

Scissor goal like a dream

There aren’t many more beautiful goals in football than those scored with scissors. For a lot of footballers, it’s a dream to score at least once in their career with scissors, as it’s an extremely challenging kick where you have to match your body movement with the extra flight of the ball with your back to goal.

Even history’s top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo has admitted that scoring at least one goal with the scissors has always been a dream for him. And he tried to do it several times. But to no avail.

His glorious moment came in 2018. Real Madrid played Juventus in the Champions League quarter-finals and Los Blancos clearly had the upper hand in the match against a strong opponent.

It was Ronaldo who opened the scoring in the third minute, and the Merengues continued to have more of the game. Finally, in the 64th minute, there was a moment that will forever go down in history.

Vázquez’s shot was deflected by Gianluigi Buffon only to Carvajal, who broke free on the right side, sent a fluffy centre into the box, which Ronaldo ran onto, jumped on and, at the right moment, scissor-kicked and headed exactly to the bar.

The best goal in Champions League history?

A goal so perfect that even the home Juventus fans had to applaud it. Ronaldo then made no secret of the fact that it was this gesture from the fans that helped him make the decision to move to Turin.

It is considered by many to be the best goal in the history of the Champions League. However, a few weeks later, Gareth Bale also joined the debate, adding his little brother’s goal in the Champions League final against Liverpool and scoring a wonderful scissor kick as well.

“At first I was very frustrated. But after about 25 seconds I started thinking about how beautiful that goal was. Even though he scored against us, I could recognise that he had done something incredible,” Buffon later recalled.

“When I walked past him afterwards, I said: ‘Cristiano, how old are you?’ And he said: ’33. That’s not bad, is it?” laughed the Italian goalkeeper.

Source: UEFA, Twitter