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The 6 players with more assists than Cristiano Ronaldo for Real Madrid

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While Cristiano Ronaldo is predominantly known for his goalscoring abilities, he’s racked up an impressive number of assists throughout his career too.

During his nine-year spell with Real Madrid, CR7 produced a total of 120 assists which places him seventh in the all-time rankings for assists at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Using Opta’s criteria for assists, here are the six Real Madrid players with more assists for the club than Ronaldo.

6. Juanito – 122 assists

Real Madrid fans still chant the name of Juanito to this day and for good reason.

Impressively, he managed to produce two more assists than Ronaldo in 37 fewer appearances for the club. Of course, his goalscoring numbers pale in comparison to those of CR7, but his creative numbers are seriously impressive.

The former Spanish international spent 10 years at the club from 1977 to 1987 and he won 10 trophies in that time, including five league titles.

5. Ferenc Puskas – 132 assists

Widely recognised as one of the greatest forwards of all time, Puskas is one of the most complete strikers in the beautiful game’s history.

Along with ranking fifth in Real Madrid’s all-time assists chart, Puskas also ranks as the club’s sixth-highest-scoring player of all time with 242 goals to his name.

Throughout his Real Madrid career, the Hungarian international averaged 1.43 goal contributions per game which is absolutely outrageous.

For context, Ronaldo averaged 1.3 goals and assists per game during his time in Spain.

4. Alfredo Di Stefano – 139 assists

Considered by some as Real Madrid’s greatest player of all time, it should come as no surprise that Di Stefano makes the cut for this list.

The legendary forward spent 11 years at Real Madrid and racked up 447 goal contributions in that time, with 139 of them being assists.

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3. Karim Benzema – 149 assists

Benzema is the only player of the modern generation who has outdone Ronaldo with assists in a Real Madrid shirt.

While strikers are usually renowned for their selfishness, that was never the case with Benzema who was often happy to take a backseat to accommodate the likes of Ronaldo and Gareth Bale.

However, that’s not to say that Benzema didn’t score his fair share of goals over the years too. The Frenchman scored a total of 354 goals for the club which ranks him second in the all-time standings.

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2. Paco Gento – 166 assists

The diminutive forward reaped havoc on La Liga defences from 1953 to 1971 during his mammoth 18-year spell with Real Madrid.

Gento is one of only eight players who have made 600 or more appearances for Real Madrid and he certainly enjoyed plenty of success with the club back in his heyday.

He won a total of 23 trophies during his time in Madrid and produced an impressive 166 assists throughout that period.

1. Michel – 197 assists

Up until this point, no player has been able to match Michel’s record of 197 assists for Real Madrid. Even CR7 finished his Real Madrid career being 77 assists short of the record.

The former Spanish international, who has since gone into football management, spent 12 full seasons with Real Madrid and averaged 16 assists per campaign.

His record of 197 assists is going to take some beating.

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EPL: Fulham must move on from defeat to Manchester City — Iwobi

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Alex Iwobi says Fulham must stay positive despite their 5-4 defeat to Manchester City at Craven Cottage on Tuesday.

Marco Silva’s side put up a spirited display in the encounter, and were unlucky not to get at least one point.

Iwobi started the fight back by scoring the second goal for Fulham early in the second half.

The versatile midfielder’s compatriot, Samuel Chukwueze then rose from the bench to score two more goals for the Cottagers.

Manchester City, however, held on to go home with maximum points.

Iwobi stated that they deserved more from the game.

“I feel disappointed because we didn’t get anything out of the fighting spirit that we showed, but I think we have to take the positivity from the game,” Iwobi told the club’s official website.

Fulham will be away to Crystal Palace in their next Premier League game on Sunday.

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EPL: Guardiola names team that impresses him everyday

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Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola has named the Premier League club that has impressed him so much this season.

The Spaniard said that Enzo Maresca’s side have really impressed him with the improvement they make everyday.

Speaking after Manchester City beat Fulham 5-4 in the Premier League on Tuesday night, Guardiola pointed out that a team must remain consistent to win the title.

Pep Guardiola’s side closed the gap at the top of the Premier League to just two points behind Arsenal with the victory over Fulham, but the Gunners could maintain their five points lead with a win over Brentford on Wednesday night.

“Chelsea impresses me more and more every day with Enzo [Maresca], but it’s long,” he told reporters after the win.

“Premier League is so long, many things will happen. We won six Premier Leagues, four or five when we in December, January or February we were behind.

“The team who wins the Premier League is the team who grows during the months and this is what we try to do. No injuries, it’s so long.

“But at the same time, if we push, we will be better and push ourselves and control the situations better, the emotions and we will see what happens.”

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Outrage As ‘Biological Male’ Wins World’s Strongest Woman Event in Texas (Photos)

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The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman final has sparked outrage after an alleged transgender athlete won gold.

American Jammie Booker, who is accused of being a biological male, beat Great Britain’s Andrea Thompson to victory at the event in Arlington, Texas.

According to Mail Online, Thompson walked off the podium, appearing to say ‘this is bulls***,’ while Booker celebrated. The Brit has since been crowned the ‘true World’s Strongest Woman’ by her coach and some of her peers.

Rebecca Roberts, a three-time winner of World’s Strongest Woman, has sensationally claimed that no one – not even the organizers – knew about Booker’s background.

Details on the American are not clear, but the publication sighted a YouTube video – uploaded to what appears to be Booker’s YouTube channel in September 2017, with Booker saying: ‘Everyone is dying to tell their own story and I am obviously no exception to that.

‘I’m 21-year-old trans woman with a history of abuse, struggling to stay true to herself while under the rule of her religious parents.’

On Monday night, Roberts posted a picture on Instagram that read ‘Protect Women’s Sports.’ She wrote alongside the picture: ‘I hold no hate toward transgender people. Everyone deserves dignity, respect, and the freedom to live their truth.

But I cannot stay silent about something that threatens the fairness and future of women’s strength sports. Transgender women, people born male, should not be competing in the women’s category.

This isn’t about identity. It isn’t about politics. It’s about the undeniable physical differences that exist in strength-based sports… differences that don’t disappear, and that matter more here than almost anywhere else. Women’s categories were created for a reason, and if we lose that, we lose the foundation of our sport.

‘What happened this weekend wasn’t transparent. None of us knew. Not even the organisers knew. And when fairness is taken by surprise, trust in the sport begins to crack.

‘My message is simple. Trans people belong in sport, but women’s divisions must remain biologically born female-only.

‘I love this sport. I have given my life to it. And I won’t ignore something that could quietly change it forever. Congratulations to @andreathompson_strongwoman… the true World’s Strongest Woman 2025’

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