The Portuguese star has had11 red cards in his career: four with Manchester United, six with Real Madrid and one with Juventus in Mestalla. Seven direct red cards and four double yellow cards.

The Champions League match Juventus vs Valencia, just another duel between Italy and Spain, engendered another outrageous incident in the statistics, which joined the previous, almost concurrent episode with Madrid and Valencia. Sergio Ramos became the most cautioned player in the history of the Champions (37 yellow cards against Scholes’ 36) with his yellow card obtained in the match against Roma. At the time, Cristiano Ronaldo has suffered his first sending off for the 158 games played in the Champions and the first with Juventus. This club has obtained more red cards than anyone else in the Champions League’s history (26).

Without CR in Mestalla, Allegri's team clearly won against Valencia due to two penalties by Felix Brych (the referee also whistled the third in favour of the local team) that confirmed him the referee who states penalties the most (24). And without CR in Bernabeu, Isco scored his first goal from a direct free kick in the Champions and became the first Spanish player in Real Madrid who did it.

A number of data in which one image stood out the most: crying Cristiano after seeing the red card and his desperate yell “I have not done anything!”. His conflict with Murillo, in which first he dropped his arm and then made a hair tug. But the linesman noticed that. His first red card in the Champions League was the eleventh sanction in his professional career (seven direct red cards and four double yellow cards; eight as a guest and three at home). He was sent off four times with Manchester United for the period 2004-2008, and six times with Madrid during nine seasons (two were in Bernabeu).

The first sending off for Los Blancos’ player happened in December in 2009. It was during the match against Almeria. He got two yellow cards: the first one for taking off his shirt to celebrate the goal and the second one for kicking midfielder Ortiz. Just a month after he was sent off once again for smacking Mtiliga from Malaga in the face in La Liga. After the blow, Mtiliga suffered nasal bleeding.

More than three years passed till Cristiano was sanctioned again. Then he was sanctioned again in 2013 Copa del Rey intense final against Atletico. The Portuguese saw a red after he kicked rojiblanco Gabi. Seven months later, in San Mames, he was sent off again. This time is for smacking Iturraspe. A subsequent gesture of contempt towards referee Ayza Gamez cost Cristiano three matches ban. The last expulsion of CR in La Liga was in Cordoba in January 2015. He obtained a two-match ban for aggression towards Edimar and a pushing Crespo. The committee also took into account his contemptuous face and look at the Champions League emblem on his shirt, the title of which Madrid managed to win that season.

Cristiano’s sanctions in Spain became a closed chapter in August 2017. That day in the Spanish Super Cup’s match against Barca he got two yellow card for taking off his shirt after scoring a goal and, according to De Burgos Bengoetxea, diving. Subsequent shoving the referee cost him the maximum sanction, so in total the Portuguese had been sent off five times in his career.

Source: El País