DBasia.news – A few facts assessed Barcelona star, Lionel Messi, to be more powerful than striker, Cristiano Ronaldo at the national team level after breaking into Uruguay’s goal in a friendly match, Tuesday (11/19) AM.
For more than a decade, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s names have often been in the spotlight. The rivalry of the two players was the talk of the party.
The dominance of the two players in the Ballon d’Or event was the reason. Especially when Cristiano Ronaldo was still strengthening Real Madrid which incidentally is the eternal rival of Lionel Messi’s club, Barcelona.
At the international level, the debate over who was better between the two is heard. Moreover, neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo have ever made their team win the World Cup.
For Cristiano Ronaldo fans, they have the Portugal national team weapon who already won the European Cup 2016. In addition, Ronaldo has scored 99 goals with his country.
However, that does not mean that Lionel Messi’s achievement is more inferior. Messi has presented the 2008 Olympic Gold Medal for the Argentine national team.
In addition, Lionel Messi also became the all-time top scorer of the Argentine national team. In La Albiceleste’s uniform, Messi has struck the opponent’s goal 70 times.
Lionel Messi’s goals were also considered to be more quality than Cristiano Ronaldo. Around 82 percent of Messi’s goals for Argentina national team were produced against countries in the top 50 of FIFA ranking. Compared to that, Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal is more inferior than Lionel Messi’s. Only 29 percent of Ronaldo’s goals were scored when facing a country that is in the top 50 FIFA rankings.