Ronaldo back for Real Madrid: Hungrier than ever!

Real Madrid coach Juan Roman Lopez Caro will name Ronaldo in his starting line-up for tomorrow's match against Espanyol.

The Brazilian has fully recovered from his injury, which kept him out of action last month and trained with the attackers yesterday.

Ronaldo took part in the full session and then worked with Robinho, Julio Baptista and Antonio Cassano in a closed doors session under the guidance of Lopez Caro.

Asked how he was feeling, Ronaldo declared: "Ronaldo is more focused and hungrier than ever!"

I hope we are speaking of 'hungry for goals' and not food here, seems Ronnie boy can get a bit wide in the midriff and his play is effected........

Real will be hoping he's got his motor running, they seem to be playing a bit better now and he should be a welcome sight.....

Thats how he gets his motor running though Oranje.. Some hotdogs before game.

Interesting to see how Cassano will fit into their squad. They've some good names on that team sheet.

i do agree that ronaldo has gained a couple extra pounds ...but he is allways a lethal striker that you cant sleep on him because he will make you pay. he could be ineffective for 88 minutes and it will take him 2 minutes to embarass opponents ....he has shown in the pass that his best form is when he comes back from injury (maybe because that when he does the most training) ...last world cup he had come back from an injury to become the tournament's top scorer...i know its easy to make jokes about this guy ...but it realy sucks when you have to swallow your words later...lol

lol, I agree. Ronaldo is fat (for me not as fat as Cassano) but as soccernut said, He can score some goals easily in a few minutes of activity. It's very curious.