serghei
Senior Member
Yea, basically Ronaldo is the better striker with more weapons in his arsenal to score. He can score with both feet almost equally well, expert at headers, volleys, great at all sorts of crosses, is quicker, hits more powerful. And has a great bag of tricks to get the better of defenders in seemingly packed 16m box. Must have the best movement in world football from midfield up. Messi doesn't have anywhere near the same arsenal of scoring. And his dribbling doesn't help him against teams that concede space and defend deep. Because he doesn't have any space to run into.
In the end you just can't go around the fact that Messi is a different type of player to Ronaldo. He can't enter Ronaldo's zone and be better than him, although he does much better than Ronaldo would do trying to pull off the stuff Messi did/does.
Messi does get close to Ronaldo in terms of scoring as long as the opponents are not elite level in decisive games. When the opponents are elite level, the better scorer is Ronaldo by a clear margin. Frankly, both would be excellent in the same team if not for their rivalry and ego.
In the end you just can't go around the fact that Messi is a different type of player to Ronaldo. He can't enter Ronaldo's zone and be better than him, although he does much better than Ronaldo would do trying to pull off the stuff Messi did/does.
Messi does get close to Ronaldo in terms of scoring as long as the opponents are not elite level in decisive games. When the opponents are elite level, the better scorer is Ronaldo by a clear margin. Frankly, both would be excellent in the same team if not for their rivalry and ego.
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