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Published 13:40 8 Oct 2016 BST
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So far it's been another record-breaking campaign for Real Madrid's top ever scorer.
He set an appearance record at Euro 2016 and became the top scorer of the competition. Somewhere along the way, he helped guide Portugal - bloody Portugal - to the title as well and he even managed to do it with a bit of dignity and selflessness that many would deny him.
He hit 35 of Real Madrid's 110 league goals last season and brought them to the final of the Champions League - a tournament in which he took his own personal scoring tally to 95 - and hit the winning penalty.
When questions were asked of Ronaldo, he answered them. When the critics were willing him to balls up, he ignored them.
On Friday night, he looked for all the world like he was finally back to full fitness and then some as he hit his 62nd, 63rd, 64th, and 65th international goals.
He ripped Andorra to shreds like you'd probably expect a Ballon d'Or competitor to do but each of his four goals during that 6-0 win were frighteningly glorious.
A left-footed volley, a header, a right-footed volley, a left-footed half-volley.
They were hit with conviction and accuracy and pure, merciless power. They were hit like only Ronaldo could and they were finished like only the best finisher in the world could.
1. He gets off the ground in time to smack home a volley off his left into the bottom corner.
2. He leaps like a star-gazing salmon above the defender to head his second.
3. A ball is absolutely drilled at him and he manages to react and control his effort first-time to put it in the top corner.
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4. Anticipation, reactions, improvisation.
https://twitter.com/SkyFootball/status/784489822270332928
And this stuff is just the latest example in a long line of Ronaldo's brilliance.
The man is unstoppable. Give him his dues. Give him his Ballon d'Or.
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