A Manchester United legend believes Cristiano Ronaldo's career changed following a UEFA Champions League match in 2005.
Real Madrid legend Cristiano Ronaldo is undoubtedly one of the greatest soccer players of all time. However, there was a period when things weren't quite working out for the Portuguese superstar.
"I always remember a game at AC Milan and he frustrated the life out of me. We were playing them away. But Gattuso kept running over to him and taking the ball off him and it was doing my head in. He was playing against Maldini anyway, but Gattuso just kept coming over, taking the ball off him, taking the ball off him.
"'Look, you've got to pass the ball, pass the ball before he gets to you. It's quite obvious what's happening.' And I think it was after that game that he realized and he thought, 'Right, that's the game, that's the biggest stage, I'm going to play him. And I wasn't quite up to speed.'"Scholes didn't think Ronaldo was "game intelligent enough.
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