Jude Bellingham equals Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid with four goals in the first three games
Acting with freedom and assuming protagonism, the English midfielder is the eighth player in the club’s history to reach this mark. The last one was CR7, in 2009
Jude Bellingham’s start at Real Madrid couldn’t be better. Signed for 103 million euros, the third most expensive signing of the current European football transfer window, the former Borussia Dortmund player has an incredible four goals and an assist in the first three games of the Spanish Championship. Such a performance led the team to three victories and leadership.
The last player to manage to score four times in the first three LaLiga games was Cristiano Ronaldo, in 2009. The 20-year-old English midfielder equals the Portuguese star and six other names in a select list of fantastic starts for the club in the tournament national.
Athletes who have scored four goals in the first three games for Real Madrid in LaLiga:
- Lazcano (1929)
- Arbiza (1941)
- Marshall (1956)
- Puskás (1958)
- Sneijder (2007)
- Van der Vaart (2008)
- Cristiano Ronaldo (2009)
- Bellingham (2023)
Bellingham’s achievements sound even greater if we take into account the athlete’s career history. Originally a defensive midfielder, he only scored eight goals in 31 games for Borussia Dortmund in the 2022/23 Bundesliga. Altogether for the German club, there were 24 goals in 132 games.
In the English national team, where he also plays in a more defensive way, he scored just once in 24 games. Despite this, he always demonstrated versatility and had already been used in alternating midfield positions and even in attack.
Carlo Ancelotti was able to see the versatility of the young talent signed by Real Madrid and he uses him with great freedom in the center of the offensive midfield. Bellingham starts the season fluctuating behind the Brazilians Vinícius Junior and Rodrygo and ahead of a trio and also dynamic midfielders formed by Tchouaméni, Camavinga and Valverde.
In this way, the top scorer of the current edition of the Spanish Championship has participated in 5 of the 6 goals of Real Madrid so far this season. Only the team’s first goal in the competition, with a pass from Carvajal to Vinícius Junior, did not involve Jude Bellingham.
