@PremLeaguePanel Enzo scored from Excatly the zone that had been protected all game long by Rice, the moment he went off 2 goals came from that area alone!
@CraigyBoii93@UCR7L It's so easy to cook stuff up these days and stir people up with.
Uefa Euro 2012, Quarter final, against Czech MOTM on https://t.co/3fPrFWjts9 is shown below.. who do you see? should we verify the rest of your jargon ?
@AlexVolloFPL Please, don't forget the earlier-promised custom filter/sort feature to select best rotating team(s) w.r.t. a chosen benchmark. That'll be useful to find cheap enablers who'd rotate well with overpriced assets as the season starts.
@PremLeaguePanel Enzo scored from Excatly the zone that had been protected all game long by Rice, the moment he went off 2 goals came from that area alone!
@LetsTalk_FPL think it makes sense with Argentina having so much of the ball now. If they equalise (hope not) then he can switch and bring on Saka again
@JimmyHenchman5@GianniButtice yeah, in #FPL, sometimes the difference between you and 100k people ahead of you is that one differential transfer you can make before the deadline after seeing the lineups. i think you underestimate that!
I'm so grateful that Ronaldo won the euros with the generation that he won it with. Those players were not as talented as the current squad, but they played their hearts out on the pitch. These entitled brats of today don't deserve to win anything.
... and France ends the game with 3 yellow cards, Paraguay, None. Same game we all watched. The poorest refreeing performance at a world cup by a mile! #FRAPAR#PARFRA
@kantesbarber@FPL_Zlatan oh, i agree with you.... oh dear! look, see a kid who did not have a pitch to play on. Such a pity that he needed growth hormones to measure up... and they struggled to register him at barca... so much harddddd work that deserves an award. Hey look !
Oh yeah? Golden Generation ?
He inherited a nation that had never won a major international trophy. He led it to the biggest prize on the continent, against the best, Portugal's first ever major title, and he did it with a team many Portuguese find hard to even call Portugal's true golden generation. But with him, the expectation changed from participating to winning. He raised the bar higher than the one he inherited. But of course, as usual, I'd help you move the goal post unless he wins a World Cup. He has done nothing with a generation that is playing shit at this tournament.
Funny, ain't it?
If admiring Ronaldo’s GOAT case is “low IQ,” then give me more of it. I respect both. Messi’s genius is unique, but he built his case in football’s finest palaces, with the best generation of players around him. CR7 kept marching through ice and fire, and in the hardest places, his name never left the table. If Ronaldo had spent 20 years in Guardiola’s Barça and lifted a World Cup with Argentina’s golden generation, there wouldn’t even be a debate. I guess it takes a very high IQ to pretend context doesn’t matter.
Also - while we are at it.
Anyone that still insists that Ronaldo is a better player than Messi is not worth listening to about football.
It’s one of those things that just signify a low IQ. Miss me with it.
Or then you tell me, what greater burden of proof is there than walking into the most decorated clubs in 3 of Europe's top 5 leagues, where football's greatest legends had already set history ablaze, and leaving as one of the defining names of each? 1st Ballon d'Or for that club in 40 years, or just casually become an all-time top scorer of another, so easy, right?
That's a very different kind of challenge from spending two decades in one ecosystem. Or by your scale, let's just say Madrid, Juventus, and United are simply just not hard enough places to test a man's aura like at Barca, heh?
Thank you for actually reinforcing my point.
My main issue is the characterisation of any perspective that sees Ronaldo as the GOAT as a "low IQ" position. That's a profound contextual blunder.
The song of ice and fire isn't joining weak clubs. It's repeatedly walking into football's greatest institutions, where greatness is already the minimum expectation. Great clubs don't lower the burden of proof. They raise it.
Real Madrid was already the biggest club in world football. Ronaldo's burden wasn't to make Madrid great. It was to become one of the greatest figures in the greatest club. Boy, did he. He left as their all time leading scorer and the defining face of arguably the greatest modern era in the club's history.
Juventus had just won seven consecutive league titles before Ronaldo arrived, but the generation that built that dynasty was already leaving the stage. He inherited not their success but the burden of sustaining it. Boy, did he. 2 league titles, Serie A's Capocannoniere, and the fastest Juventus player to 100 goals.
Now, ask yourself the same question. The one time Messi truly stepped outside the ecosystem that shaped him, did he redefine the institution he joined? Did he become the era? Or do we explain it away by saying the club wasn't built around him? If it's the latter, you've made my point for me. Ronaldo repeatedly found a way to become the defining force rather than waiting for one to be built around him.
That's the dimension of greatness I admire. Surely appreciating it isn't a symptom of low IQ ? or maybe i need more pitiful likes, smh!