The stats behind C. Ronaldo's least prolific la liga season at Real Madrid

The Portugal international has scored simply 25 goals this season in the league, marking the joint-least on the grounds that his arrival in 2009.

Cristiano Ronaldo has loved every other prolific season at Real Madrid, yet the Portuguese has fallen short of his traditional widespread of goalscoring.

Indeed, as La Liga's season finale nears - Real play Villarreal this weekend earlier than taking on Liverpool in the Champions League ultimate next week - Ronaldo has scored 25 goals, his joint-lowest return in a league season in view that he joined the membership in 2009.

Ronaldo also scored 25 closing season, though there is the caveat that this season also marks the Liga campaign with the least minutes. Even if Ronaldo completes the full ninety this weekend, he will have played simply 2,230 minutes this term.

Nevertheless, his tally falls way brief of the heights of 2014-15, when he netted 48 La Liga goals. Apart from the final two seasons, the last same one would be 09-10, when he joined Real, as he hit just 26 goals before acclimatising to existence in Spain.

Perhaps his diminished return can be explained by means of the reality he has taken just 173 shots, the second-lowest number in his Real career, though his goals-per-minute ratio (one each and every 89 minutea) is higher than 2010 and 2016.

Strangely, Ronaldo has yet to rating from outside the field in La Liga this season, no matter his popularity as a fearsome long-range striker. Compared to 2009-10, when he scored 19 per cent of his desires from backyard the box, the statistic stands out as anomalous.

Of course, that also potential that Ronaldo has no longer scored a free-kick for the first time in an complete league season. However, his numbers from useless balls have continually been low - he scored just two in 2015 and 2016, and one in 2017.

While he has every now and then been labelled 'Penaldo' by rival fans, Ronaldo has also scored simply three penalties this season, in contrast to 12 in 2012.

And though always viewed as two-footed, Ronaldo has scored 56% of his goals with his proper foot. And he has netted just four headers.

Of course, he will hope to pad out the numbers in opposition to Villarreal this weekend as Real tune up for the Champions League final.

In fact, Ronaldo has loved more success in Europe, scoring 15 goals in just 12 games, notching at least one in each and every sport main up to the semi-finals. As a crumb of comfort for Liverpool, Bayern Munich had been able to nullify the 33-year-old in both legs of their semi-final encounter, though they stay the only team to do so this season.