article_snippet: Under-fire Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo were in full swing during hurdling drills and five-a-side games at the club's Valdebebas training ground on Thursday.
article_snippet: Cristiano Ronaldo (centre) pierces team-mates Asier Illarramendi (left) and Alvaro Arbeloa .
article_snippet: The facts are that, despite being in the rare position of being underdogs at the weekend, away from home Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are Spanish club football's most dangerous forward duo.
article_snippet: The Portuguese Ballon d'Or winner and the Welsh winger have more away goals than any other strike partnership, even Lionel Messi and Neymar.
article_snippet: The Portuguese Ballon d'Or winner and the Welsh winger combined 22 goals in 14 games when not braving the white handkerchiefs of The Portuguese Ballon d'Or winner and the Welsh winger Bernabeu
article_snippet: is leads Lionel Messi and Neymar's tally of 18 outside the Nou Camp.
article_snippet: Ronaldo has 15 of those and will be keen to catch the Messi, the prodigious Argentine who has been on fire in 2015 with 20 goals in 17 matches in all competition and overtook the Portuguese to be La Liga's top goal scorer.
article_snippet: With Bale and Ronaldo in full flight, only Sami Khedira was missing through a stomach illness while James Rodriguez's foot injury is still on the mend.
highlights_snippet: Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale trained at Valdebebas on Thursday .
  
highlights_snippet: Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are the most damaging attacking duo in Spain's top division .
  