article_snippet.sent: Reports of Cristiano Ronaldo's decline have been greatly exaggerated: The Real Madrid forward scored five goals against Granada, taking The Real Madrid forward tally in La Liga to 36 for the season - more than half of Europe's top teams.
article_snippet.sent: Cristiano Ronaldo scored an incredible five goals against Granada to lift his tally for this season to 36 .
article_snippet.sent: Cristiano Ronaldo has this season are: .
article_snippet.sent: Cristiano Ronaldo took some flak last month after a series of poor performances for Real, but Cristiano Ronaldo goalscoring has never waivered and even through a difficult period Cristiano Ronaldo managed six goals in 10 games, the sort of record most strikers can only dream of.
article_snippet.sent: The first three of Cristiano Ronaldo five goals against Granada marked the quickest hat-trick of Cristiano Ronaldo career, coming in just eight first half minutes.
article_snippet.sent: Another followed 16 minutes later, and Cristiano Ronaldo last came 35 minutes after that.
article_snippet.sent: It all adds up to a brilliant Easter Sunday for the world's best player, and Ronaldo's  spoke of Ronaldo's  delight afterwards .
article_snippet.sent: It all adds up to a brilliant Easter Sunday for the world's best player, and Ronaldo's  posted on Twitter after the game, saying: 'Happy to have scored 5 goals with this excellent team work.
article_snippet.sent: If the critics still see Cristiano Ronaldo as greedy, the critics certainly paid off at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday.