Ronaldo's amazing UEFA Champions league record was ended by De Ligt

Cristiano Ronaldo is a legend with highest goals in the history of UEFA Champions league. Ronaldo started his Champions league career back in 2003 with Manchester United. Portugal's captain scored 126 goals in 162 matches while representing Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus. Ronaldo scored 15 Champions league goals for Manchester United. Ronaldo scored 105 Champions league goals for Real Madrid and this season Ronaldo scored 6 Champions league goals for Juventus. 

Cristiano Ronaldo took 144 matches to reach 100 champions league goals. When he was playing in Manchester United, he was considered as "The Ace" of the club and he was the most favorite player in the English league. Manchester United fans were really disappointed when Ronaldo left Manchester United for Real Madrid in 2009. In Real Madrid, CR7 spent the most dominant period of his career. Ronaldo scored 105 Champions league goals for Real Madrid in 9 years.

Cristiano Ronaldo was looking for his fourth consecutive UEFA Champions league title this season. Ronaldo won three consecutive UCL titles in Real Madrid and he was very optimistic for his fourth titles this season. Ronaldo pushed forward single-handedly Juventus for UCL title. In Knock out stage (Round of 16) Juventus lost the first leg form Atletico Madrid with deficit of 2 away goals but in the second leg Juventus came back strongly and Ronaldo showed the best performance of the season and  scored much needed hat-trick. 

Juventus won the knockout stage by 3 : 2 aggregate and reached quarter finals. Ronaldo's performance boosted the moral of the team. In the first leg of quarter final against Ajax, Juventus could not win and draw the match with 1 : 1 goals. Ronaldo scored a brilliant header goal but that was not enough to win the first leg. In the second leg, Juventus had advantage of home ground and fans all around the world were hoping for an easy win against Ajax.

Cristiano Ronaldo misses out on the semi-finals for the 1st time since 2009/10.#UCL pic.twitter.com/fzxzwOq5A1

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Juventus had lead at 28th minute of the second leg of quarter final when Ronaldo scored another brilliant header. It was Ronaldo's 126th goal of his UCL career. The home goal gave Juventus one goal lead over Ajax. Juventus lead could not stay longer  and Van de Beek scored equalizer Just 6 minutes after of the Juventus goal. The equalizer goal really boosted the speed of the match. In the second half, Juventus looked a bit under pressure and Ajax multi-dimensional passing opened the Juventus defense multiple times. Juventus started losing its defense which was due to absence of Chiellini  De Ligt scored header goal in 67th minute of the match and gave Ajax lead of one away goal. 

In spite of all the effort Ronaldo could not undo the away goals lead of Ajax. 34 years old Portuguese was frustrated over the stoppage time. He was booked at the dying minute of the match for an unwanted tackle from behind. It could be Cristiano's 8th consecutive appearance in the UEFA Champions league Semi finals if Juventus would have won that match. Ronaldo's amazing UCL streak was ended by Ajax. 

Well Ronaldo is still at the top of the list with highest (126) UEFA Champions league goals. Lionel Messi is at the second place with 110 goals. It will take at least two UCL seasons for Messi to equalize Ronaldo's current goals figure in UEFA Champions league. Ajax will face Tottenham in the UCL Semifinals.

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