ExtraFootie's Rolly Pelovangu reflects on Real Madrid's 3-1 win over Marseille at the Stade Velodrome on Tuesday evening as Cristiano Ronaldo stole the show.

How do you stop the current FIFA World Player of the Year? Clearly Marseille do not know the answer as yet again 'CR9' cut the French giants to pieces.

That is four goals in two matches against l'OM this season, although careful examination of Ronaldo goals point more to Marseille's defensive frailties as opposed to Maradona-esque performances.

In arguably the toughest group of the whole lot, Marseille can hold their heads up high despite having failed to navigate their way past the group stages for the third successive campaign.

As for Real they head into the last 16 as group winners, but before Manuel Pellegrini's men can even begin licking their lips in anticipation of a favourable draw, they need only be informed that last season, of the eight teams that emerged as group winners, only five progressed to the quarter-finals.

Los Blancos need no reminding that in 2007 having themselves topped Group C, they collapsed in the knockout rounds to Group F runners-up AS Roma, who defeated the Spanish giants both home and away to send them packing.

For all Real’s apparent might in this season’s group stages, question marks still hang over whether or not Los Merengues can cut it against Europe's finest.

Yes, they boast the likes of Ronaldo, Kaka, Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso, however, a 3-2 defeat at home to AC Milan, coupled with a 1-0 defeat in last month’s 'El Clasico’'proves the nine-times European champions are beatable when they face-off against top-class opposition.

The 3-1 win over l'OM would have given Real a feeling of superiority and confidence going into the draw for the last 16, but the confirmed runners-up, which include the likes of Bayern Munich and FC Porto, will not exactly be quaking in their boots at the prospect of playing Real in the last 16.

As ever, the UEFA Champions League's top scorer this season, Ronaldo, stole the headlines with two goals, one being a superbly taken 30 yard free-kick, while the other came from a defensive mix up in the dying stages.

L’OM had their chances, most notably from the spot when 2-1 down, but midfielder Lucho Gonzalez fluffed his kick and coach Didier Deschamps was left to ponder what for.

"We had the opportunity to come back to 2-2 with the penalty, and it would have been different thereafter, but we failed. And to miss it was a blow on the head," he told the club's official website.

"I knew there was a difference between Real and OM, but now I am more aware of that, even if we could have taken something from this game," he bemoaned.

Catch highlights of the match below: