Here I was all ready to write a piece about Madrid's first three points of their La Liga campaign and Ronaldo, scorer of two of the goals in Los Blancos' 3-0 win over Granada, comes out and declares he's unhappy, and the rumour mills goes into overdrive. On a Sunday night.

It was going to be so easy. A comfortable win, Madrid still needing to hit top gear but securing a crucial three points after a lacklustre start to the season. Some progress for Mourinho and his men, but not the kicking-on expected following their midweek Supercopa success over Barcelona.

Then Cristiano has to come out in the mixed zone post-match and take all their attention. Of course he does. Why not the off-the-field attention as well as the on-the-field stuff? He's Ronaldo.

"I'm sad and people at the club know why, this is why I didn't celebrate the goals," he said after the match, according to translated reports. "The issues are professional. I cannot say more."

Indeed, the Portuguese star didn't celebrate his first goal. It looked more like embarrassment that Tono, the Granada goalkeeper, probably should have saved it. Then again, Ronaldo isn't one for enigmatic celebrations, Barcelona matches aside, maybe the goals just come too thick and fast for him - tonight's goals were his 150th and 151st goals in a Madrid shirt.

Tonight, seemingly, things were different. Ronaldo's quotes sent Twitter into overdrive. Is he 'sad' at the fact that Marcelo, his team-mate, put Iker Casillas forward for the Ballon d'Or rather than him? Has Ronaldo told Florentino Perez he wants to leave the Bernabeu? Was CR7 sad that Michael Essien, Madrid's newest signing, referred to manager Jose Mourinho as his "daddy"? All theories and rumour and the latter, clearly, a joke...

To share his unhappiness with the press just before the international break may be good timing on Ronaldo's part, but it'll surely send the Spanish press into frenzy until they can next interview Madrid's star man in the all-white. Expect someone to grab him while he's away with Portugal - I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this.

There was a match taking place on Sunday, of course, and a crucial one too for a Blancos side that had collected just a point from their first possible six and trailed title rivals Barcelona by five points already. To drop further behind the Catalans at this stage could have been disastrous, even though it is only three league games into the season.

A win's a win, as they say, and that statement couldn't be more true. It was comfortable, if not emphatic. Heck, there were even some whistles from Madridistas inside a flat atmosphere at the Bernabeu. The important thing was for Madrid to bag their first three points of the season and use it as a building block, like they should have done from the Supercopa second leg.

Against Barcelona Madrid were, for the most part, playing at top-gear. The tie could, and probably should, have been over at half-time such was the intensity of Madrid's play, the crispness of their passing, and their focus of the game. The clash with Granada had none of that, and Mourinho said there's still plenty for his men to improve upon in coming games. Too right.

Los Merengues battled so hard to win that Liga title from Barcelona last season and some may question their desire this time around. Is the appetite and the hunger still there from the players? If it's not, they'll need to rediscover that sharpish. Winning should breed a winning habit and Wednesday's Clasico victory, coupled with their first league win, will go a long way to doing that after a winless first two Liga matches.

One major positive was seeing Luka Modric getting his Madrid debut, and he did ok. For the first 20 minutes he slotted seamlessly into Madrid's methods. Coming in for Mesut Ozil, he played just behind Karim Benzema and was involved in two of Madrid's three goals. To say he's not 100 per cent match fit, his early passing seemed neat and crisp and his movement was good.

On the starting line-up it seemed as though Modric was set for a rotation with Ozil in the mould of Karin Benzema and Gonzalo Higuain. Post-match, however, Mourinho commented that the Croatian played an advanced role because he wasn't 100 per cent fit - maybe hinting at a deeper-lying role for Modric once he returns from international duty, duty that should boost his fitness levels. It's certainly the position I'd like to see him in with Madrid, especially with a talent such as Ozil also needing to be in the Blancos starting eleven.

I'm still tipping Argentine Angel di Maria to be top of La Liga's assists list too, if he stays injury-free. He was dropped to the bench in favour of Jose Callejon tonight but on his introduction he sparked the game into life for Ronaldo's second of the night.

It's now a break for international action. Will it be a good thing or a bad thing for a hit-and-miss Madrid side on form? We'll have to wait and see, but at least that first win's on the board. Onwards and upwards.

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