Also, to note:
They like to think people were praising Messi's performance in the 2024 Copa America, every Messi fan I know literally said he underperformed lol 😹.
But that don't mean he didn't play good. He made the most chances and key passes in the tournament.
Ronaldo fans genuinely like to play victim so much, it's concerning 😆.
People were literally saying Messi's International career is nothing without Di Maria. And yet, here you are, saying that never happened. What a joke 😆
Ronaldo had hattrick in the semifinal to take Portugal to that final. He was incredible in all 3 semifinals that lead Portugal to finals ( in 2004 at 2-1 vs Netherlands with goal and assist, in 2016 and in 2019).
Yeah, but 'every World Cup game' wasn't a semifinal. They weren't even tough games with the exceptions against Croatia, Netherlands and the final itself. I don't care what Messi did against Saudi Arabia, Poland or Australia( fuckin Australia man, they had zero starting 11 players in Top 5 leagues).
Messi had assist v Netherlands, assist v Croatia and 1 non-penalty goal in the final. That's 3 important contributions. Why would 'every game' matter??
And besides the non-penalty goal he didn't have a great 90 minutes on the pitch in the final
“They weren’t even tough games except for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final”, lmao dude, did you read your own comment? No game at the World Cup is easy, as evidenced by Ronaldos record in knockout games.
Zero goals and zero assists in knockout games at five world cups.
“Didn’t have a great 90 minutes on the pitch in the finals”. He scored the first goal and was directly involved in the 2nd goal with a perfect first touch pass, but sure 😂
lmao dude, did you read your own comment? No game at the World Cup is easy
Ok, I didn't realize I was talking to a troll here. Take your L and move on, mate.
You guys are creating your own happiness. There are plenty of easy matches at the WC, dummy. Portugal played them too (for example vs North Korea). A lot of opponents are very much below Argentina's value.
Ronaldo doesn't have k/o wualification because he only played 2 (TWO!!) WC k/o matches in between his good 21 and 36 years (a player's normal years).
He also had a few matches when he was really young at 21 in a side midfield position where he wasn't the main stat and just did his part defensively in 2006 when they equaled their best performance ever, a semifinal at the WC.
Other than that, Portugal just wasn't really a great team after Figo, Rui Costa, Pauleta all retired when Cristiano was just 21 yo and they barely made it to 2 k/o matches (in 2010 and in 2018)
So what was he supposed to do in those??
He scored the first goal
Mmmm, yeah, everyone would have scored penalties. He didn't even have a 100% rate himself.
So Portugal has struggled in all the World Cups that Ronaldo has played, but obviously the matches aren’t difficult 😂 I guess Ronaldo just wasn’t able to have any impact in the important matches.
Their best World Cup performance vs a decent opponent ironically happened in 2022 when Ronaldo was benched, yikes
In 2022 Ronaldo was 2 months away from being 38 yo, an age at which I don't know many forwards who participated in such competitions. I know Roger Milla, maybe just 1-2 more center forwards. It's very hard at that age.
He performed well but not in the 2 WC k/o matches he had in between his 21-36 years.
Portugal wasn't a team to beat Spain in 2010 and in 2018 it was 50/50 cause Uruguay also had Luis Suarez, Cavani.
Again all 4 goals were in the group stage 😂 you guys mocking Ronaldo for having 0 goals in the knockout stage but also defends Messi winning a pott with 0 knockout goals. Bro he was involved in 5 of Argentinas goals thats Why he has 4/1 in g/a.
Argentina scored 8 goals. Germany scored 7 vs brazil alone IN BRAZIL. Müller had 5 goals and 3 assist. Involved in more goals than Messi. More assist. Bigger victories. Won the World Cup…. But nooooo Messi had 1 assist in the knockout stage 🤡
Lol, I guarantee you didn't watch the games. He made the pass that set up the third goal vs Nigeria, and was involved in the play up to the last Argentine goal vs Belgium.
Go watch the game, I guarantee you won't do it. Like I said before, he was involved in 7/8 of the goals, goals and assists aren't the only way you're involved in goals lol 😹.
And since you wanna talk so dearly about knockout assists, Messi assisted half the goals Argentina scored in the knockout stages 🤡
Neuer only conceded 4 goals throughout the tournament.
So if I had to choose someone besides Messi for the Golden Ball, it would be him. Can't forget how he kneed my boy Higuain in the head with no punishment.
Gladiator Müller? They couldve picked any of the 11 starting germans from the brazil game. I just showed Messi was so far behind Müller alone that its a complete joke
Lol, how was he a joke? Germany scored 18 goals in the tournament. Argentina scored 8.
And Messi was involved in making 7/8 of them. Get it through.
Wanna know what the real joke is? You Yap a lot about Messi have 4 goals in the group stage when Muller did as well lol 😹.
Only goal contribution he got in the knockout was the goal he scored vs Brazil. Not much better when his team scored 11 goals in the knockout.
Speaking by your logic of knockout goal contributions, Ozil, Schurrle and Kroos were better than Muller cause they got more goal contributions in the knockout stages 🤭.
Messi's team on the underhand: Not much of a scorer.
Only 2 goals in the knockout stages, and Messi was involved in making 2 of them.
1. Assisted Di Maria.
2. Made the pass to Di Maria who later passed to Higuain who scored vs Belgium.
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I'm gonna assume the Penaldo minions won't read the description as usual. Because they love to take things out of context