reports of cristiano ronaldo's decline have been greatly exaggerated: the real madrid forward scored five goals against granada, taking his tally in la liga to 36 for the season   more than half of europe's top teams granada were torn to shreds by ronaldo and his real team mates as the european champions won 9 1 at the bernabeu, and their portuguese talisman managed the first five goal haul of his career his record of 36 league goals for the season overtook lionel messi's 32 strikes, and put him in the incredible position of having scored more goals than 53 of the 98 teams in europe's top five leagues this season cristiano ronaldo scored an incredible five goals against granada to lift his tally for the season to 36  granada were torn to shreds by ronaldo and his real team mates as the european champions won 9 1  the portuguese star now has more goals than 53 teams in europe's top leagues, including nine in england  there are nine teams in the barclays premier league who have managed fewer goals in the league than cristiano ronaldo has this season they are:  stoke city, newcastle united, west bromwich albion, hull city, aston villa, sunderland, queens park rangers, burnley and leicester city ronaldo took some flak last month after a series of poor performances for real, but his goalscoring has never waivered and even through a difficult period he managed six goals in 10 games, the sort of record most strikers can only dream of and his displays across the season have brought more goals than the likes of newcastle united, malaga, borussia dortmund, torino and lille the first three of his five goals against granada marked the quickest hat trick of his career, coming in just eight first half minutes another followed 16 minutes later, and his last came 35 minutes after that ronaldo's displays across the season have brought more goals than the likes of borussia dortmund and lille  it all adds up to a brilliant easter sunday for the world's best player, and he spoke of his delight afterwards  lionel messi and barcelona came out on top in el clasico but he has fewer league goals than ronaldo  borussia dortmund, who can boast marco reus among their ranks, have fewer goals than the real talisman  while ronaldo overtook messi on the goalscoring charts, the hat trick   which could have been doubled   levelled the argentine's record of 24 la liga trebles he almost matched real legend alfredo di stefano's 28 hat tricks for los blancos in what was their biggest league win in 48 and a half years it all adds up to a brilliant easter sunday for the world's best player, and he posted on twitter after the game, saying: 'happy to have scored 5 goals with this excellent team work thank you for all your support' if the critics still see ronaldo as greedy, it certainly paid off at the santiago bernabeu on sunday premier league: stoke city, newcastle united, west bromwich albion, hull city, aston villa, sunderland, queens park rangers, burnley, leicester city la liga: malaga, athletic bilbao, rayo vallecano, real sociedad, celta vigo, espanyol, getafe, levante, eibar, elche, deportivo la coruna, almeria, granada, cordoba bundesliga: augsburg, borussia dortmund, mainz, cologne, hertha berlin, freiberg, hannover, hamburg, paderborn, stuttgart serie a: torino, sassuolo, udinese, empoli, chievo, atalanta, cesena, cagliari, parma ligue 1: lille, rennes, nantes, guingamp, nice, bastia, evian, lorient, toulouse, metz, lens
europe real madrid cristiano ronaldo this season granada 9 1 portuguese the barclays premier league la liga
real madrid beat granada 9 1, with cristiano ronaldo scoring five goals  the portuguese forward now has 36 goals this season in la liga  that league tally is more than the totals for 53 of europe's top 98 teams  nine teams in the barclays premier league have fewer goals this season 