What a bunch of biased propaganda, lol.
Messi has scored 5 of his 47 goals in Copa against teams that weren't in First division, Benidorm, Cultural Leonesa, Ceuta and 2 vs Cordoba, he only scored 3 goals before R16 which is basically 80% Primera teams.
His record in the cup is:
5 goals in the final, 1 vs Alaves, 4 vs Athletic Bilbao
11 goals in semifinals, 3 vs Valencia, 2 vs Getafe and Almeria, one vs Mallorca, Real Sociedad, Villarreal and Atletico
10 goals in quarterfinals, 4 vs Betis,2 vs Malaga, one vs Atletico, Zaragoza, Real Sociedad and Espanyol
18 goals in Last 16, 4 vs Getafe, 3 vs Atletico, 2 vs Athletic, Celta, Espanyol, Cordoba and Osasuna
There's a gulf between you saying that lower division teams helped him get that record, and then him only scoring 5 against non first division teams and 6 against Athletic or 5 against Atletico alone.
2 months before Pep's arrival to the "best Barça ever"
Obviously, Pep built the best Barça ever from that, it wasn't like Pep used Leo to his full extent in order to build the best Barça ever.
And we can expect Pep to sell Ronaldinho and Deco and turn a team that finished 18 points behind Real Madrid to win a treble, but we can't expect Ronaldo to send Real Madrid past Lyon in the R16 on his first year there while also signing Benzema, Kaka and Alonso, that wouldn't be fair.
It can't be that Pep's Barça was the best ever because he had Messi, it has to be the other way around, just look at all the UCL titles Pep has won without Leo and vice versa
What's your reasoning about better with his weak foot? Leo is 14 goals behind Ronaldo with his weak foot in 150 games less, if he's better, it's marginally.
Why is he better at the counter, because he runs faster? Who'd you rather have in your team, Obafemi Martins or Michael Laudrup as a quintessencial counter attack player?
How is he better off the ball? Because he runs faster at the space? It's not even the same concept as "off the ball"
The power of amazing
Jokes aside, he's indeed a most useful player at set pieces... unless you take into account that if Ronaldo is defending a set piece, Messi is outside the area to launch the counter (and he's good at it, trust me, there's a treble almost won on that), and that where there's a good header, usually you can use a good player crossing it at set pieces, know who's good at crossing from corners?, so in the end both have their effects in set pieces that almost nullifies each other's advantages.
Because he's done it for the past 2 seasons at abnornal rate?, Messi is entering now the age Cristiano had before his Wolfsburg hat-trick, and up until that point their stats are identical.
And then, you're probably forgetting that Leo has been being decisive for almost a decade vs Bayern, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Arsenal, United, PSG or Milan in KO stages, so what, he never put 5 on the same leg vs Bayern? He destroyed them anyway, being decisive itself is not scoring a bunch once the game is over, is doint the most important effort to win it, he has that more than covered.
The facts are never propaganda man, are pure reallity.
First of all, you know that Zaragoza, Osasuna, Mallorca, etc, are 2nd division teams also right? Then you have the teams like Getafe, Almeria, Celta, Betis, Malaga, etc that are teams that move usually from mid to lower table positions almost every year, clearly not Champions League level teams. And then, you have the Real Madrid, Atletico, Sevilla, Valencia, Villareal that are the teams that are always in UCL or Europa League positions almost every year, and he doesn't gets to 10 goals between them all in Copa del Rey.
Messi has been in 2 Copa del Rey finals vs Real Madrid, and went without scoring or making any kind of impact in both games. Cristiano played in only one of that finals, and he scored the only goal of the match that gave Madrid the Cup.
Then again, From Pep's Barca, the fact is that when Ronaldo got to Real Madrid, Pep had been alreaady one year as the coach winning everything, and Real Madrid was terrible. Still, Ronaldo first season in Madrid, while is true that he didn't win anything, he make the team get 96 points in La Liga, all time record in that time for Real Madrid. The problem is that Pep's Barca made more...
But to tell that Pep's Barca was winning everything because they had Messi has to be one of the biggest lies someone can tell around here, easily demonstrated when you see that Spain's National Team won 2 Eurocups in a row and 1 World Cup between 2008 and 2012, just the same years Pep was in Barca, and they won them all without Messi but with 6 starters from that Barca team. Now tell me what did Messi won in that years without Barca. Or better, what has Messi won in all his career without Barca? Absolutely nothing.
So yes, that Barca team was ruthless because it was made by the Spanish golden generation with, Iniesta, Xavi, Puyol, Busquets, Pique, Villa, etc. They won everything they played in that times with and without Messi...
To tell that Messi is in the same level than Ronaldo with his weak foot looks like a joke, Messi will never score a goal with his right if it is not a tap in, or have you ever seen him make a strong shot outside the box with his weak foot and score? I have never, but I've seen Ronaldo doing it a lot. You only have to see them play to notice that.
Ronaldo is better at the counter because he has demonstrated it for years. Its not only that he is faster.
Mou's Real Madrid was one of the best counterattacking teams ever, also Ancellotti Real Madrid, and in all of them Cristiano was the most important part of them, he usually launched them from corners or free kicks in their own box, and then finished the counter with the goal. There are thousands of videos in youtube of the Real Madrid Counterattacks, if you see some of them you will get clear why Ronaldo is better than Messi in that regard.
You say that they are in the same level in set pieces because one is a great header and the other is a great passer in the corner kicks. Tell me, how often Cristiano scores with his head in set pieces, and how often Messi gets an assist in set piece. One of Madrid's biggests goal threats are the set pieces, and Barca has been since a long time ago, totally threatless in set pieces, so no, they don't nullify anything, it is much much more influential Cristiano in set pieces than Messi.
The last 2 years scoring at an abnormal rate in UCL gave Cristiano 2 Ballon D'Or, 2 FIFA Best Awards, and 2 Champions League Trophies, so then, I don't understand your point. 2 seasons ago CR7 had still 10 Semifinal goals vs Messi's 4.
But Im pretty sure being the topscorer of then UCL in the last 7 years in a row is a lot of time, and a hat trick to Wolfsburg doesn't minimizes anything.
You say that he destroyed in the last 10 years teams like Bayern or Chelsea, but I remember that Chelsea always kicks away Barca whenever they face them in UCL with the exception of this year, and he had never scored them before this year's tie. And Bayern? They won them 3 years ago, but don't forget one year before that, Bayern took them out by winning them 7-0 between the two legs, with Messi in there.
He has only scored 4 goals to them ever, so its hard to tell that he always trashes them.
PSG?? He has only scored them once, in the 7-0 turnaround last year, scoring his only goal with a penalty kick that doesn't even was a foul. He disappeared both games (he made the same vs Juventus the next round) and Barca made the 'remontada' thanks to Neymar, Suarez, and the Referee. Messi just disappeared vs PSG and vs Juve.
The teams Messi has scored the most in Europe are (in that order):
Arsenal, Celtic, AC Milan, Bayer Leverkusen, Ajax.
The teams Cristiano has scored the most in Europe (without taking Atletico into account) are:
Tottenham, Bayern Munich, Schalke, Ajax, Juventus.
Like I said bro, facts are never propaganda, is a fact that both have 5 Ballon D'Or, that both have 4 golden boots, Cristiano has 2 FIFA Best Awards, and a mayor trophy with his NT, Messi dosn't has neither of them. But most important, that Messi's peak was in the times of Pep's Barca. Since that times he has only won 1 Ballon D'Or vs Ronaldo's 4, 1 UCL vs Ronaldo's 3, hasn't outscored Ronaldo in UCL not even once, and hasn't won anithing with his NT while Ronaldo has.
The last years have been hard times for the Messi supporters, you know that my friend...
