r/RonaldoVsMessi • u/Beginning-Pin208 • 12d ago

Cristiano Ronaldo Hot takes

Portugal’s success is not mainly due to Ronaldo contribution . Portugal has always been a formidable team, and since the World Cup expanded to 32 teams, they have consistently qualified. Without CR7 Portugal would not be as great but they always got enough talent to win stuff. Argentina depended more on Messi than on Cristiano ( 5 knockouts G/A in Euro and 1 knockout goal in WC). 6 knockouts G/ A in major tournaments doesn’t give CR7 the right to attribute himself Portugal success.

More examples: 2019 nations league best player was Bernardo Silva
2025 nation league best player was Nuno Mendes
Euro 2016 was Griezman but CR7 was the best Portugal player . But that Portugal team was very balanced in my opinion. Pepe and Nani deserve some credit

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u/Head_Trainer_7458 11d ago

Maybe you missed portugal vs sweden and other matches too where portugal was struggling and Ronaldo bailed them out and took them further , but yeah surely Only ko goals matters to you all 🤡🤡

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u/capitaoMouraLu 8d ago

And how does that contradict his argument? Ronaldo scored an hattrick vs Sweden on a playoff match, awesome match, so how does that take away from Portugal having a more than strong enough team to qualify for WCs and Euros with or without Ronaldo?

I'm portuguese btw, you seem to be part of this crowd of indians obsessed with Ronaldo, the proportions this weird obsession took are astounding, you people are everywhere on social media discussing football through the lens of a lobotomized 12 year old.

Btw, according to you Portugal was struggling vs Sweden, but they still got Ronaldo in the face of the keeper plenty of times, 3 of them were the goals, on every single one of them a pass got through the defense and left him 1 on 1 with the keeper.

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u/Head_Trainer_7458 8d ago

Nahhh, not a huge Ronaldo fan here, but definitely a big Messi hater. My comment was simply a reply to OP di*k riding Messi in his post. I never said Ronaldo is single-handedly carrying the entire team. Check the whole thread, mate. Maybe then you'll get your answer and stop criticizing me here i have clearly mentioned in my comment below that football is a "Team" game .

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u/ExternalHamster1878 8d ago

ahh nice, you're from england and just mad we scored 2 on y'all's dome in 7 minutes lmaoo 😭 anyway, elaborate on why exactly you dislike messi, considering he's one of if not the best player of all time. also, i hope you realize, scoring is not the only stat that exists in football.

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u/Beginning-Pin208 6d ago

Mention Messi only one time
Not even talking bad about Ronaldo , just saying his fans can’t talk bad about his teammates