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Ronaldo: I can beat 23-goal mark

Cristiano Ronaldo sees no reason why he should not top last season's phenomenal 23-goal tally.

The Manchester United winger's extraordinary achievements were one of the major reasons why the Red Devils ended a four-year Barclays Premier League title drought and ended the campaign just three wins away from emulating their 1999 Treble triumph.

"Twenty-three goals is a lot for a winger," he admitted. "To score that number made it a special season indeed but I believe in myself. I feel I can do better, or at least equal what I did last year and I will be trying hard to do exactly that."

Ronaldo was speaking at the launch of his book 'Moments', where he was forced to wear a pair of oversize designer sunglasses to protect the eye injury he suffered during Tuesday's win over AS Roma.

Although Sir Alex Ferguson had suggested Ronaldo felt he was the victim of a deliberate elbow by Roma substitute Mirko Vucinic, the Madeira-born winger played down the incident.

"It wasn't intentional," he stressed.

"I don't want to look like this but these things happen in football."

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