RONALDO
Cristiano Ronaldo took six minutes to score on his comeback
as Real Madrid beat Osasuna to keep up a 100-per-cent La Liga start.
Ronaldo, back from a knee injury picked up with Portugal
during the Euro 2016 final, tapped in Gareth Bale's cross.
Danilo drove in a second just after Unai Garcia hit the bar
for Osasuna.
Sergio Ramos and Pepe both headed in Toni Kroos corners, and
Luka Modric bent in a fifth, before Oriol Riera and David Garcia pulled two
goals back.
The visitors - who also had a penalty saved as Kiko Casilla
denied Roberto Torres - finished with 10 men as full-back Tano Bonnin was shown
a second yellow card for pulling back Nacho.
Ronaldo eases back to
action
Real Madrid's main man scored 35 goals in 36 La Liga games
last season as they finished runners-up to Barcelona.
His return from injury has come at a very good time for his
club, as they prepare to begin the defence of their Champions League title with
their opening group game against his former club Sporting Lisbon at the
Bernabeu on Wednesday.
In many ways, this was the perfect match for the Portugal
captain to make his return, against an Osasuna side struggling to adjust to La
Liga after winning promotion via last season's play-offs.
Having scored early, Ronaldo also played a part in the
second goal; his lob towards Alvaro Morata was pushed out by keeper Nauzet,
running loose for Danilo to drill the ball through the crowd and into the net.
In between those two moments, there was a classy back heeled
flick to set Mateo Kovacic away down the left for a break that came to nothing,
and an attempted volleyed lob that landed on the roof of Nauzet's net.
Real's 15th successive La Liga victory - a run stretching
back to the start of March - was wrapped up in little more than an hour as they
went top of the table, at least until Las Palmas and Barcelona's matches were
completed later on Saturday.
Ronaldo, still not back to full fitness, was replaced after
66 minutes to a standing ovation. Real boss Zinedine Zidane will hope to see
the forward's season pick up speed.
Zidane's side, 5-0 up by the 62nd minute, rather took their
foot off the pedal after that, although substitute Karim Benzema hit the bar
and the post in the final moments.
BBC
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