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FC Barcelona ❤| Messi 🐐|
Rihanna 👸|...cause normal is boring

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You need a specialist who are you calling?
1. Birkhoff in Nikita
2. Chloe in 24
3. Patterson in Blindspot
4. Aram in The Blacklist

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@LeoAllGoals One of the most underrated Messi goals

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@CentreCircle14 @FabrizioRomano Why is he angry? Those shots are scary

[Siya🇵🇹🇦🇷 @uuMaSiya]

Unfortunately,any nigga that spends 4 years in the MLS and comes back to outplay everyone on the biggest stage deserves the Ballon D'Or

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@Rheeta_xo He basically won everything individual. He was great but the English media exaggerated his abilities.

[DAMOLA 🏀⚽️ ⚾️🔞 @holardamolar]

How Messi take know say e suppose tip that ball as Anderson dey approach?😭

Opolo por😂

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@NkJnr It's too close to lose it now

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

Yeah so that might top 28-3 🤯

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@JoshYohe_PGH At the beginning of the European football season, watch every FC Barcelona match. You will know and enjoy the game

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@RayToluAyo No one can compete 🐐

[Son of Camp Nou @clintonnzedimma]

Lol.
You’re grasping at straws here.

Nobody said football has to be played one way. Nobody said Ronaldo had to play like Messi. Nobody said Ronaldo was only goals. That’s a straw man.

The argument is not “Messi looks better on the ball, therefore he is better.”

The argument is that Messi has the stronger total case: trophies, individual awards, goalscoring, playmaking, dribbling, chance creation, control of games, and overall influence.

Ronaldo has his own profile and he mastered it at an all-time level: movement, finishing, heading, weak foot, athleticism, big moments, UCL dominance and longevity. That is clear.

But different profile does not automatically mean equal level.

A player can be great in his own style and still not be greater than another player who affects more areas of the game.

Messi was competing with Ronaldo in goalscoring, while also competing with players like Xavi, Iniesta, Özil, De Bruyne, Bruno and Modrić in playmaking and chance creation.

That’s the difference.

Messi was not just aesthetically pleasing. He was functionally elite in multiple areas of football. He could score like an elite forward, create like an elite playmaker, dribble like an elite winger, and control games like an elite midfielder.

And even in goalscoring, Messi has more European Golden Shoes, so the idea that Ronaldo owns that lane completely is not even true.

Ronaldo was one of football’s greatest final weapons.

Messi was the final weapon, the creator, and the controller of the attack.

Also, saying assists depend on teammates is convenient because goals also depend on teammates: service, crosses, cutbacks, through balls, penalties won, and chances created. So if you want to reduce assists because of teammates, you have to apply the same logic to goals too.

And let’s be honest: if Ronaldo was the one functionally elite across more areas of football while Messi was mostly dominant in one lane, would Ronaldo fans still accept “they are equal”?

If Ronaldo had more Ballon d’Ors, more Golden Shoes, more trophies, a World Cup, more playmaking awards, more assists, more dribbling influence, more chance creation and more control of games, nobody would be saying “they are equal.”

They would say Ronaldo is clear.

That’s why the equality argument feels forced.

Ronaldo’s case is strongest in goals, UCL dominance, mentality and longevity.

Messi’s case stretches across goalscoring, playmaking, dribbling, chance creation, passing, match control, individual awards and team trophies.

And no, the World Cup is not the only thing that puts Messi above Ronaldo.

Before the World Cup, Messi already had the stronger all-round case. The World Cup did not create Messi’s superiority. It removed the last excuse.

So the question is simple:

If Messi can stand with Ronaldo in goals, while Ronaldo cannot stand with Messi in playmaking, dribbling, chance creation and control of games, what exactly are they equal at functionally?

Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers ever.

But “different profile” is not the same as “equal to Messi.”

Being different explains Ronaldo. It does not erase Messi’s edge.

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Most man of the match awards in:

The World Cup

1. Messi 13
2. Cristiano 8

The champions league

1. Messi 67
2. Cristiano 40

Copy American

1. Messi 15
2. James Rodríguez 10

La liga

1. Messi 227
2. Cristiano 93

🐐 goat for all the reasons.

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@FPL_TomHadley This was awesome, thank you

[No'Mo Foolin' 🍋 @llemurn]

Messi trying to carry Argentina every single time be like... 😂😂😂🇦🇷

#BRAARG

[Johnjr @jayjayr01]

A strange pattern in football 👀

The player widely recognized as the best in the world entering a major international tournament rarely seems to live up to expectations:

🇧🇷 Ronaldinho — 2006 World Cup
Below par performance ❌

🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo — Euro 2008
Below expectations performance ❌

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi — 2010 World Cup
Below expectations performance ❌

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi — Copa América 2011
Below expectations performance ❌

🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo — 2014 World Cup
Flop of the tournament ❌

🇫🇷 Mbappé — Euro 2020 (played in 2021)
Major flop of the tournament ❌

🇫🇷 Karim Benzema — 2022 World Cup
Unavailable throughout the tournament ❌

🇧🇷 Vinícius Jr — Copa América 2024
Major flop of the tournament ❌

🇪🇸 Lamine Yamal — 2026 World Cup
How will he fare? 👀
Will he break the trend or join the list?

[Dafa_1 @1_phadaH]

If this image offends you, you're probably a Ronaldo fan.

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@FWC26KansasCity Goat 🐐

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🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊
It's June 4th, and it's my birthday
Alhamdulillah 🤲
I was born on a Thursday, and today is Thursday 😅

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@_iamtolulope All I see is that she respects you enough to block the world out and be there with you.

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@Debbybruno3 I wasn't sleeping, but during the last World Cup, I did this after Messi's goal against Mexico. The only time I've ever done it in relation to football.

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@Beno10_MFC 993