This game shows it completely again. The thread is not about the more successful player but the better player. Ronaldo does nothing all game, his team deserve to go out but they get through. Great penalty all the same.
You guys are always completely missing the point of this thread by bringing up trophies. It's not about who has won more, it's about who the better footballer is. Hands down it's Messi. His best performances not only better Ronaldos but they shit all over them. Again (and it won't be believed unfortunately) I'm a Ronaldo fan, he's payed for my team while Messi has played for a team I dislike because they ruined our Champions League hopes twice. However on pure abilities asa player (which is what this thread is actually about, not achievements) Messi is superior by quite a margin. Ronaldo is in the tier above all others except Messi.
It simply doesn't matter if Ronaldo scores the winning goal for Madrid in a Champions League final against Barca while doing feck all if Messi has dominated the game from start to finish. The player that is the best on the pitch is the better footballer but maybe not the winner of the game. I mean is O'Shea superior to Gerrard for that last minute goal, or to Henry for the same (silly question obviously O'Shea is a better player than both).
I'll again refer to Park v Le Tissier, both top players but one won lots of trophies and one was the better footballer, who was it?
The best GAA footballer I've ever seen never won the ultimate prize at all but to bloody hell with you if you think he wasn't better than all those that actually did, but as in the case with Ronaldo I'm not saying the others were bad players, there was simply someone better at playing the game than them.
