Uh, what was Cristiano Ronaldo doing to Marcelo after Real Madrid's third goal?

Henry Bushnell
·Senior soccer reporter

Real Madrid entered Saturday 19 points behind Barcelona in La Liga. Earlier this week, it crashed out of the Copa Del Rey. Next month, it must overcome PSG in the Champions League Round of 16 to have any shot at a trophy in 2018, one year after winning five.

Madrid, clearly, has a lot of problems at the moment.

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Its players also clearly have no problem … uh … touching one another’s butts after goals, so maybe everything is going to be alright after all?

Cristiano Ronaldo, uh, celebrates(?) with Marcelo after Real Madrid’s third goal against Valencia. (Getty)
Cristiano Ronaldo, uh, celebrates(?) with Marcelo after Real Madrid’s third goal against Valencia. (Getty)

It’s not quite clear what Cristiano Ronaldo is doing in that photo, and television cameras don’t appear to have caught it from the right angle. But you can see Ronaldo with an up-to-no-good grin during the celebrations of Madrid’s third goal in a 4-1 win at Valencia:

We’ve got nothing else to say here.