Is Ronaldo the best in the world?

Ronaldo this season:

Ronaldo scored 5 goals from penalties:
- against Derby, Everton and Arsenal in the league
- against Spurs in the FA Cup
- against Dynamo Kiev in the Champs League

Scored 5 from free-kicks:
- against Sporting in the Champs League
- against Sunderland, Portsmouth, Bolton and Newcastle in the league.

So 28 of his 38 goals came from open play.

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Originally Posted by cartman

because junior is a pleb.. its not an insult... its a fact..;)

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Do you even know what a plebian is?

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Originally Posted by GavinZac

Do you even know what a plebian is?

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plebian??? never mentioned plebian...
i said pleb ;)

and now i ask you do you know what an andy capp is??

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Originally Posted by cartman

and now i ask you do you know what an andy capp is??

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A wife beating drunk

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Originally Posted by Roadend

A wife beating drunk

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Have you seen the cut of his wife? You'd be a wife beating drunk in that instance too I'd wager :)

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Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

Ronaldo this season:

Ronaldo scored 5 goals from penalties:
- against Derby, Everton and Arsenal in the league
- against Spurs in the FA Cup
- against Dynamo Kiev in the Champs League

Scored 5 from free-kicks:
- against Sporting in the Champs League
- against Sunderland, Portsmouth, Bolton and Newcastle in the league.

So 28 of his 38 goals came from open play.

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Out of the hundreds of free kicks he's taken within scoring distance, 5 have gone in and the other 99% have left an imprint in the nuts of the players in the wall - some record.

I'd bet Hargreaves has a much better shots to goals ratios from free kicks

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Originally Posted by lionelhutz

Out of the hundreds of free kicks he's taken within scoring distance, 5 have gone in and the other 99% have left an imprint in the nuts of the players in the wall - some record.

I'd bet Hargreaves has a much better shots to goals ratios from free kicks

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I'm not a massive Ronaldo fan but I think that's a very unfair comment. Before this season his free kicks were generally extremely poor and almost always hit the wall but they have improved remarkably this season. To score five free kicks in a season is IMO excellent. There aren't many players who would do much better (even Beckham didn't usually score much more than that) and he is now one of the best at taking direct free kicks.

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Originally Posted by lionelhutz

Out of the hundreds of free kicks he's taken within scoring distance, 5 have gone in and the other 99% have left an imprint in the nuts of the players in the wall - some record.

I'd bet Hargreaves has a much better shots to goals ratios from free kicks

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He can't win. Uninformed posters claim he only scores from penalties and free kicks and when I point out that actually 28 of his goals came from open play this season....now we get comments about how ****e he is at free kicks??!! :confused:

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Originally Posted by cartman

plebian??? never mentioned plebian...
i said pleb ;)

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Thanks for illustrating my point perfectly.

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and now i ask you do you know what an andy capp is??

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Read the strip every day. I don't know if thats supposed to be funny, if it is I'd say leave the non-sequitor cultural references to Family Guy. Stick to buffoonery.

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Originally Posted by jmurphyc

To score five free kicks in a season is IMO excellent. There aren't many players who would do much better (even Beckham didn't usually score much more than that) and he is now one of the best at taking direct free kicks.

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Pfft....George has 2 in 8 games ;)

how did the worlds greatest player get on against blackburn saturday?? was he playing???

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Originally Posted by cartman

how did the worlds greatest player get on against blackburn saturday?? was he playing???

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He was, the usual footballing contradiction, hit the post with a superb shot and then did the usual disgraceful dive in the box.

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Originally Posted by razor

He was, the usual footballing contradiction, hit the post with a superb shot and then did the usual disgraceful dive in the box.

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That diving S..t really annoys me. Watched a super doc last week called 'Football's gone soft'. Souness would have ended Ronaldo's career, had they played in the same era.. The bloke's a sissy girl..

As a neutral I hope Wednesdays match lives up to its billing.How fit will Messi be?Another draw for Barca against Espanyol on Sat.Zambrotta is a capable defender so Ronaldo will have to be on his game but it will be fascinating.

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Originally Posted by jbyrne

from the football ive seen players like platini, zidane, rui costa, maradonna, and yes our own lads mcgrath and keane could be called world class. they did it year in year out and also performed at major tournaments. ronaldo is a very good player but best in the world? i doubt it. its one thing doing it against villa or fulham but look how poor he was in the cl semi final last year v milan when he came up against top quality opposition. i actually think torres, fabregas, messi and kaka are currently better players and im sure there are others out there that i dont see regularly

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just had to get a comment in lads,im a liverpool fan myself so it hurts me to say it but lets be honest ronaldo is on fire at the monent but he will have to do it for another few years before he will be world class,but the real reason im writing is im astonished that with all the legends of the game that have been mentioned as in above the best player to every put on boots wasnt....romario.....the man is a god look at his record 1226 games 1002 goals i know they were not all at the top level but a lot were even the great maradona is quoted as saying he was the best finisher he has ever seen and he would have him in his dream 11 you cant get much higher praise than that

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Originally Posted by the sparks

just had to get a comment in lads,im a liverpool fan myself so it hurts me to say it but lets be honest ronaldo is on fire at the monent but he will have to do it for another few years before he will be world class,but the real reason im writing is im astonished that with all the legends of the game that have been mentioned as in above the best player to every put on boots wasnt....romario.....the man is a god look at his record 1226 games 1002 goals i know they were not all at the top level but a lot were even the great maradona is quoted as saying he was the best finisher he has ever seen and he would have him in his dream 11 you cant get much higher praise than that

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Big Ronaldo was better.... :D

I do believe Messi is giving us our answer tonight fellas :)

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Originally Posted by jebus

I do believe Messi is giving us our answer tonight fellas :)

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Seconded..and Im a United fan...:o

Its harsh to compare them on tonight given the amount of possesion Barca have had and how poor all United players have been.

Saying that Ive always thought Messi was the better player.

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Originally Posted by micls

Its harsh to compare them on tonight given the amount of possesion Barca have had and how poor all United players have been.

Saying that Ive always thought Messi was the better player.

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It is but you have to take into account Messi's overall play in general against Ronaldo's overall play. Say Messi gets hit with a hard tackle, he either shrugs it off or gets up and gets on with it, with Ronaldo you get the theatrics on the floor. With Messi he looks a danger attacking the goal himself, or running down the wing and getting the ball into the box, with Ronaldo I still don't think he's a great crosser of the ball. He's better in pretty much every way, even after a lenghty lay off