Cristiano Ronaldo vs Raheem Sterling

After Hull at home he should put his feet up to watch two of the best left wingers in world football play in the biggest fixture going. Cristiano Ronaldo versus Neymar will be an education.After Sterling’s nocturnal visit to London’s trendy Cirque le Soir in London, just 24 hours after England’s victory over Estonia, the most important club in his career is Liverpool.The attitude of a superstar, a genuine world beater, is to put all that stuff off until he is finished with football in his mid-thirties.That’s what Ronaldo did when he committed his mind, body and soul to the sport when he arrived at Manchester United at the age of 17. Look how it has paid off.On Wednesday night, in the seductive colours of the ten time European champions Real Madrid, Ronaldo taught Sterling how to play that role down the left. In short he was magnificent.When Karim Benzema scored Real’s third, Sterling stood hands on hips and wondered out loud how Liverpool could ever get a grip on this game.This is the world’s best football team and it was a privilege to watch them take Liverpool apart in this Champions League group game.When one cog in the wheel of the world’s best football team isn’t functioning, they simply turn to another expensive piece of machinery to do the job.Ronaldo, Toni Kroos, James Rodriguez, Isco and Luka Modric turned the screw at will. Liverpool? They just feed Sterling.It is impossible to rely on him alone, to think that a kid of 19 can handle the responsibility and pressure of trying to win a game against one of the best club teams we have ever seen.To his credit, Brendan Rodgers is doing his best to shield him from the spotlight after a series of events that would affect even the most stable teenager.‘It comes with his rise that people might want to knock him, but he is focused,’ claimed Liverpool’s manager.‘For Raheem Sterling, at 19 years of age and six days before a game, people are saying he can’t go out? That’s not right.’ At least Sterling was willing, running his guts out down the left and trying to make up for losing possession by haring back down the touchline. There was admiration from Carlo Ancelotti, the man who made the European Cup happen last season on that dramatic night against Atletico Madrid in Estadio da Luz. (Daily Mail Sport)Bakudaily.Az