Ralf Rangnick is failing to heed Cristiano Ronaldo advice Zinedine Zidane gave Manchester United

Cristiano Ronaldo finds himself in the middle of an uncharacteristically bad run of form at Manchester United.

Some fans would link that to him receiving a lack of service in attacking positions and others will say it is because he is simply a 37-year-old finally approaching the point of his career where his level inevitably drops off.

The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle but what is most important is that United find a way to get Ronaldo back to his best possible form with a number of important matches coming up in both the Premier League and Champions League and his former manager Zinedine Zidane's previous advice on how he managed Ronaldo may have offered a potential solution.

Zidane coached Ronaldo at Real Madrid during the years when the Spanish club won the Champions League three times in a row and after a La Liga fixture against Atletico Madrid back in 2018, the French manager said: "Cristiano is Cristiano, he has been this player all his life, scoring 50 goals a season. It is true that there is nobody else who does that.

"But others can score, have done recently, and we must think about the positives. It's better to have Cristiano with us.

"It was just (to rest him). We have many games, that's it. Sometimes he needs to rest. These days he needs that. He feels better every day, you can see it."

Ronaldo has played the full 90 minutes in the majority of games he has started for United this season and fans will remember his outburst when he was substituted against Brentford in the Premier League, which continued even past when Marcus Rashford had scored the team's third goal of the game.

With an important Champions League round-of-16 second-leg fixture against Atletico Madrid around the corner and also