‘I work to be like Ronaldo’: Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus

‘I work to be like Ronaldo’: Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus

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Gabriel Jesus has said that he looks up to Brazilian legend Ronaldo Nazario for motivation. The Manchester City striker scored again, against Real Madrid in the Champions League second leg last 16 tie. Manchester City established another 2-1 victory over Real Madrid in the second leg of last 16 tie (UCL) at the Etihad stadium. The Cityzens ran out 4-2 aggregate winners over Real Madrid.

Jesus mugged the ball of Raphael Varane in the ninth minute before giving an assist to Raheem Sterling’s opener for Manchester City. However Karim Benzema equalized minutes later. Then in the 68th minute , Gabriel Jesus capitalized from Varane’s back-pass to skillfully finish City’s second goal past Thibaut Courtois. Eventually helping Manchester City run 4-2 aggregate winners.

Gabriel Jesus on Brazilian Ronaldo

Jesus revealed he was inspired by the career of fellow countryman Ronaldo.

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In a post-match interview Jesus added,”We beat a top team, the best club in this competition so for us it is massive. It is about belief, believe in their mistakes. We are human and can make mistakes so I believe always and I press, press a lot. It is one of my powers. I was happy to score. I work to be a great striker; I work every day hard to be like Ronaldo was. His quality is different from me but I have to work to be a great striker. Real Madrid are such a good team, they have a lot of players. They can beat us which is why we came to the pitch to work hard again. We have to keep working and stay strong for the next game.”

Sterling’s 100th goal for Manchester City

Sterling completed his century of goals for Manchester City. In Interview with BT Sport, Sterling said, “Energy, passion. It is a competition we want to do well in. If we play our football and run our socks off then the result will come. We know how good they are, we know how good we are and the difference was who would run the most and I thought we were brilliant today. We wanted to be right on them and from our pressing we got two goals. [It is] a great achievement [to score 100 goals for the club], hopefully plenty more to follow.”

Now Manchester City face French side Olympique Lyonnais in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals.  

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