Soccer for Peace

Man United will be able to add another string to their bow once Anthony Martial has recovered from his current injury. The Manchester United forward has spent most of this season staring at the walls of the Carrington treatment room, as opposed to strutting his stuff out on the pitch. Injury troubles have so far restricted him to just 45 minutes worth of action this term, leaving him lagging behind his competitors in pursuit of a regular starting berth.

But on the one occasion Martial did get to try and start rekindling his United career, he ensured that he made his mark, providing an excellent assist for Marcus Rashford's first goal of the season in the 2-1 win over Liverpool last month. United were 1-0 up at half-time that evening and manager Erik ten Hag, instead of trying to protect what his team had got, sensed blood, making an unexpected attack-minded change.

Cristiano Ronaldo is in contention to feature for Manchester United when they take on Brighton and Hove Albion in their opening game of the new Premier League campaign this weekend.

New Manchester United boss Erik Ten Hag will start his managerial reign at the club on a competitive note against the Seagulls at Old Trafford on Sunday afternoon and Ronaldo is expected to feature in the squad at least.

Cristiano Ronaldo has been named in the PFA Team of the Year, an honour voted on by his fellow professionals. Amid a poor season for Manchester United, Ronaldo stood out, and was the only Red Devils player named in the PFA XI, BBC Sport report.

The full team was: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Rudiger, Cancelo; Bernardo Silva, Thiago, De Bruyne, Salah, Mane, Ronaldo. Ronaldo scored 18 Premier League goals in 30 Premier League games, just five off the leaders, averaging a goal every 137 minutes.

Ronaldo may not have been able to win a trophy in his first year back at Manchester United, but he is not short of individual honors. This is the 13th honour Ronaldo has received since returning to Manchester United at the start of last season. These include five club player of the month awards and two Premier League awards, as well as his Manchester United top goalscorer award.
PFA Premier League Team of the Year
Manchester United Fans Player of the Year
Manchester United Goal of the Season
Premier League Player of the Month (April)
Premier League Player of the Month (September)
Manchester United Player of the Month (May)
Manchester United Player of the Month (April)

Cristiano Ronaldo's crusade to reach in a fifth World Cup moved a step closer to reality as Portugal scraped past Turkey but not without a serious scare on Thursday night. The Portuguese seemed to be coasting through when they went two goals up in the first half, courtesy of Diogo Jota and Otavio. But Burak Yilmaz pulled one back for the Turks and was presented with a golden chance to equalise from a penalty, in the 85th minute.

Yilmaz missed the target and Matheus Nunes went on to snatch Portugal's third in the final seconds as the visitors threw players forward with an air of desperation. Goals and personal glory eluded Ronaldo on this occasion but his team moved into the final of the Path C play-off, back in Porto on Tuesday.

One of the major questions up for answer ahead of the Premier League clash between hosts Burnley and Manchester United is the poor form of Cristiano Ronaldo in front of goal and whether he can put an end to his goal drought against the Clarets who have played a goalless draw in each of their last two games in the league since the 3-1 loss to the Red Devils in the reverse fixture. Ronaldo was one of the goalscorers in that reverse fixture as he scored the third Manchester United goal. The Portugal international has gone four games without a goal since that Burnley game. Scotland midfielder Scott McTominay and Ben Mee (own goal) were the other goalscorers for the Reds during the game with the three-time European champions racing to a 3-0 lead before winger Aaron Lennon pulled one back for Burnleywith all the goals coming in the first half.