Cristiano Ronaldo's worst goalscoring year of the decade Serie A He netted 39 times in 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, Cristiano Ronaldo is absent from the list of the top five scorers of the calendar year.

Robert Lewandowski scored 54 goals, Lionel Messi had 50, Kylian Mbappe had 44, Raheem Sterling had 41 and Eran Zahavi had 40.

Ronaldo, meanwhile scored 39 times - 25 with Juventus and 14 with Portugal.

This is his lowest number of the past decade.

Since he netted 69 times in 2013, his numbers have slipped and slipped as he had 61 in 2014, 57 in 2015, 55 in 2016, 53 in 2017, 49 in 2018 and now 39 in 2019.