Cristiano Ronaldo rises to big occasion with impeccable timing | Sid Lowe

Real Madrid's talisman debunks theory he doesn't perform in big games by scoring magnificent header against his former team-mates It could be his next poster campaign, photographed before a green backdrop and plastered life-size across the walls of the Santiago Bernabéu metro station. There was something cartoonish, machine-like, about it. Almost too perfect, a computer game. The leap, high; the back, straight. The timing, pause included, impeccable. Real Madrid had started well and so had he, ...