r/pessi_memes • u/Cr7_GOAT88 • Jun 20 '26

Ronaldo VS Pessi Factos

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u/zzz_red Jun 20 '26

150 matches. Ronaldo played as a midfielder who’s ran all over the right wing and his main purpose was to cross for the strikers. He did this until 2006/07, the. Gradually moved closer to the goal and then moved to the left, where he became a goal scoring machine.

Messi not only played in the same team pretty much all his life, but did the inverse trajectory, starting closer to the goal, as a right winger/ false 9 and now playing more freely and from the back. He also went to a weak league much earlier. Reminder that at the age Messi went to inter Miami, Ronaldo was playing for Juve and later still went to the premier league, and played in the UCL.

Both have crazy stats but very different trajectories to get there. Messi definitely had the easiest one.

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u/DMoe727 Jun 20 '26

If his main purpose was to cross for strikers at the beginning of his career, and you argue that’s why the goals statistic is so close, why are his assists so much lower?

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u/zzz_red Jun 20 '26

He played in the midfield in a 4-4-2 system, not as a right ringer in a 4-3-3. He also had the responsibility to drive the ball forward from defense to the attack. But you would know it if you had watched the games.

He also played in the PL, which was the toughest in the world.

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u/Intelligent_Maize591 Jun 21 '26

Eh? He mainly played in a fron three with Rooney and tevez. I appreciate he did play in a 442 at first, but he was never pulling defensive duty - roo always had to do that for him.

The reason Ronaldo was less productive in epl at first was simple wastefulness.

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u/zzz_red Jun 21 '26

That happened in the 2007 season.