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Cristiano🇵🇹 vs Messi🇦🇷
Stats in each round of UCL KO vs top 10 elo teams -
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Kareem@Kareem_676
This is the only round in ucl ko where Ronaldo is better than Messi, this is what creates the disparity in there stats and make people think he's way better,. But the difference in the quality of teams they faced is insane
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@someballfacts @lucianosanchezl Sweden 2013 showcases his peak profile better, but Spain 2018 is the biggest carry job (closest in that regard is probably Atletico 2019).
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@lucianosanchezl i am not sure what his best game is. someone else who is a cristiano "expert" might have better insight. all i can say is this is the highest level of football.
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My main takeaways from this historic-level performance (based on highlights below - have not rewatched match, but saw live)
(1) Near technical perfection. Almost every touch is calibrated, efficient and oriented to produce vertical momentum, engage tight situations at all-time level of proficiency.
(2) Elite physical sharpness and conditioning. Ronaldo is engaged and firing sharply and efficiently in his physical actions - sprints, jumps, turns.
(3) Decision making - exquisite interpretation of the play. Always picking out the right action and importantly - the right tool: left foot when necessary.
(4) Completeness as a footballer: wins first and second balls with his heading, wins duels, sprints from deep, sprints into space, ball carrying, play construction, scoring.
(5) Historical decisiveness. Scoring a world cup hattrick is practically unheard of. Doing so against a superior team puts this squarely in the category of historical performances.
Iniestactics@Iniestactics
Cristiano Ronaldo vs Spain - 15/06/2018
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@maktub_61 Funnily enough, I remember that back then it was the consensus that Ronaldo was the more complete player but that Messi was still the better player overall for showing up in big games.
How things change!
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Just how things should be, Messi hanging with the average/normies while CR stands as the only true outlier of this century
PopFoot@ThePopFoot
📊 Les meilleurs buteurs en Ligue des Champions à partir des 1/4 de finale
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@someballfacts Don't know if it's that drastic, but through balls generally require more touches from the finisher than crosses and cutbacks, and Ronaldo's chances tend to have a higher xA on average, whereas Messi relies more on volume. So that would check out.
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Wait what? Is this true FT?
The god@ChiHilari43559
@DegurechaffSama Been researching this stat since yesterday Ronaldo assists that were finished in one touch are over 90 percent Messi assists that were finished in one touch are less than 17 percent Whole De bruyne has over 60 percent. Unbelievable shit! Ronaldo gives the more quality assists
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Small towns are almost complete devoid of culture because everyone interested in culture inevitably moved to a big city
Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck@PAHoyeck
What's everyone's most elitist opinion?
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@someballfacts "Dribbles completed" stats have cooked people's brains.
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People do not understand that not all dribbles are created equal.
Evading players in midfield is FAR less challenging and less impactful than a DIRECT 1V1 opening for a shot.
Cristiano was a specialist and therefore one of the deadliest dribblers we've ever seen.
Tanya Degurechaff@DegurechaffSama
Cristiano Ronaldo - 1v1 Emperor Cropped dribbling comp, full 30+ minutes comp in comments
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@RioVeradonir @wil_da_beast630 Solid plan. Basically the British Empire with extra steps.
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Libs be like^.
I say: conquer them now!
Certainly the weak vassal states like Old Europe. We could take Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Greenland, and most of the EU inside 18 months.
BRICS would actually fight. Leave them alone, for now, while we consolidate Westria.
A joke?
Tim Hannan@TimHannan
If we impeach and remove Trump right now, maybe just maybe the world will forgive us one day for what he’s done.
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@ronaldowave I'm afraid we've already exhausted all our "all-timer international campaign after 40" cards on the Nations League. But we shall see...
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#We actually have a chance
CentreGoals.@centregoals
🚨🚨| GOAL: CRISTIANO RONALDO WITH HIS 967TH CAREER GOAL!!! Al Nassr 4-2 Al Najma
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@aymeric70 Excluding Italy, D has good variety. I’d go with that.
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@StatisticUrban Other than Andrew Tate, I've only ever seen the "straight sex is gay" take from Nick Fuentes.
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@StatisticUrban I'd say Anglosphere culture is more different from the rest than the US is from the UK. So 1.
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@maktub_61 You see this in the fact that even people who include defenders in their all-time top 10s only include 1 or 2, the rest are all forwards.
Not what you'd expect if all positions were equivalent.
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Nobody actually rates defenders, btw. Those who do are dishonest but annoyed at the "inequality" lens with which they view everything, including football.
Madrid Zone@theMadridZone
🚨 Kylian Mbappé: "The easiest position in football? In my opinion, it's centre-back. You're covered from every direction, you can even play in a 3atb. It's the only position where you see guys who are 40 years old, still in Europe, still in top clubs. An attacker at 40 years old, he's finished."
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This seems alright, even though I’m not sure giving 20/21 to Lionel
z@noLsZzz
The better big game performer each relevant season between Messi and Ronaldo 06/07: 🇵🇹 07/08: 🇵🇹 08/09: 🇦🇷 09/10: 🇦🇷 10/11: 🇦🇷 11/12: 🇵🇹 12/13: 🇵🇹 13/14: 🇵🇹 14/15: 🇵🇹 15/16: 🇵🇹 16/17: 🇵🇹 17/18: 🇵🇹 18/19: 🇵🇹 19/20: 🇵🇹 20/21: 🇦🇷 21/22: 🇵🇹 22/23: 🇦🇷 23/24: 🇵🇹 24/25: 🇵🇹 14-5. Sad.
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@wil_da_beast630 Ayn Rand making that exact case: courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-1…
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Traveling to outer space, and planting our flag on new worlds, is far far far more important than keeping the fattest and least functional unemployed people in our current society fed.
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@TheNassrZone - Statpad-max in the group stages.
- Score 1 or 2 decisive goals in KOs.
- Lift the trophy.
That's all I'm asking him.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 - Group K:
Portugal 🇵🇹
Colombia 🇨🇴
Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
DR Congo 🇨🇩
Thoughts ?
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A usual reply I get when sharing my political journey:
‘If you're not a leftist when you're young, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative when you're old, you have no brain’.
I hate this quote. Every part of it.
Everything wrong with politics is there:
1) why is the Left the only side viewed as idealistic?
Because its opponents have indeed zero idealism
(except some quasi-fascists - not all idealism is good).
Because classical liberalism is seen as ‘compromise’
and boring GDP graphs.
Because no one (minus maybe 10 people)
can make a MORAL and inspiring case for liberty.
2) Why is the alternative to being a leftist being a ‘conservative’?
Screw that. The Left are the real stagnation-seekers.
I want Maglev trains, life expectancy to 500, terraforming Mars.
They want to ban plastic straws.
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