Now that Messi has the trophy in his cabinet, that single black mark is gone, despite the laughably predictable attempts from ConstantlyShiftingTheGoalposts FC to try to keep their guy in the conversation. In terms of achievement overall, they are probably roughly equal, but it would depend on what you prioritise. More medals, more MotM awards, more player of the tournament awards, more final appearances, First player in all football history to win a NT tournament as top scorer, top assister AND Golden Ball, or do you prefer racking up mickey mouse goals against Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and the utter Z grade trash Euro forwards get to fill their boots with? Go look it up, his "wonderful competitive" NT record is almost HALF against the Gibraltars and Armenias of the world. Bolivia are comfortably the worst team currently in SA and even so they'd be midtable in a Euro qualifier group. People here in Europe don't watch it, so they don't understand it.
People in here will still denigrate SA football, having not watched Argentina get booted up and down the pitch every single match, whilst lauding Ronaldo for this imaginary "yes, but he stood on the sidelines in a really impressive way which somehow translates to something". thing. GTFOH with this tripe.
Right up there with giving him an assist for heading the ball towards goal and someone scoring the rebound after the keeper saved it. That's not an assist, has never been an assist in any universe, and is even less credible that the cheerleader theory.
For what it's worth, Portugal are also currently ranked higher in FIFA's list than Argentina. People keep listing all these forwards like Higuain
ffs without mentioning that both these guys need quality teammates to help win tournaments. There's no point in being stacked in one position and nowhere else. Di Maria missed one final and got injured in another final, and it effects how the team perform. Now this one he gets to play and surprise he is a great attacking outlet when Brazil are trying to stop Messi and Lautaro.
Might be harsh but.....so what.
Ronaldo drones in here have spent literal years flipping and flopping, changing what is the best criteria to use depending on what one Ronaldo was doing better in at the time. Talk utter shite most of the time. Go on twitter, facebook, see the hordes of ultra casuals talking down Messi because he scored against Eibar, when he has more goals against Madrid. The Euros being "stronger" is irrelevant when it has more than twice the number of teams, and Portugal's 2016 win was the flukiest run of utter jam ever seen on Earth, since they finished third in a Group of Life, then played middling Croatia, before they were WC finalists, then Poland, then true world power Wales in the semi. Not to mention not having the constant pressure of the ancient winning past on your shoulders either. No-one thought Portugal were winning anything despite the players in their squad, but people always put that label on Argentina even when they have a patchy team like in 2018. And in 2018, just like in 2007, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019, Argentina generally lose against the tournament hosts, the tournament winners, or Germany.
TL;DR = Probably about the same, but Ronaldo fans talk a lot of shite to try to pretend otherwise.