Piers Morgan has hailed Cristiano Ronaldo as his “GOAT,” claiming that Lionel Messi does not look as brilliant out of his comfort zone.
Both superstars changed clubs at the start of the season, with Messi joining Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Ronaldo returning Manchester United. Outside of Barcelona for the first time in his career, the Argentine superstar has failed to put his best foot forward. He has only scored twice in 18 Ligue 1 appearances this season, drawing criticism for his lack of cutting edge.
The United no. 7 has also struggled for form from time to time, but he has been a lot more expressive in front of goal. The 37-year-old has struck 12 times in the Premier League itself, emerging as his team’s leading scorer.
On Twitter, Morgan compared the careers of the two leading goalscorers of this generation. The Englishman claimed that the PSG no. 30 looks a “shadow of his former self” after leaving Barcelona. He said:
“Messi’s a great player but as we’re now seeing, he operated exclusively in a Barca comfort zone for his whole career and without it he now looks a shadow of his former self.”
He added that Ronaldo proved himself for four clubs (Sporting CP, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Juventus), making him the Greatest of All Time (“GOAT”) in his books.
“Ronaldo’s proven himself for 4 clubs in 4 countries. That makes him my 🐐”
The Portuguese skipper has scored 807 goals in his football career so far. He is currently the leading scorer in the history of men’s football.
Ronaldo scores hat-trick three days after Messi’s humiliating Champions League exit
On Wednesday night, PSG fell to a 3-1 defeat against Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League last-16. The loss saw the Parisians crash from the competition on aggregate (3-2), surrendering their 2-0 lead. Lionel Messi struggled to do anything of note that night, failing to register even a single shot on target.
Three days later, his arch-rival scored a hat-trick to guide Manchester United to a 3-2 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League. The 37-year-old’s opening goal, in particular, was spellbinding. From 25 yards out, he dispatched an unstoppable piledriver, leaving Spurs’ keeper Hugo Lloris for dead. Saturday’s treble marked the 59th hat-trick of his career — his second in Man United’s colors.
Lizdlmpru
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Now I know that Morgan is truly useless and senseless. How can a journalist like him who is supposed to know better write this kind article? How can you judge 2 individual players by how many clubs they have played for? Does it mean that Morgan does not know that whom much is given much is expected? This same Morgan wrote stupid things about benzema when Ronaldo was at Madrid because he was very blind to see that Madrid team then was built for every player to play for Ronaldo to score. I believe if Morgan is asked to write about benzema today, it will be a different story. The same story at Juventus where every plan was to play for Ronaldo to score and the same thing is happening at Manchester United. Every big team has an arrow man. In PSG, the arrow man is mbape. PSG has built or building their team around mbape who is younger and they doesn't want to lose him to another club and he is delivering. Manchester United does not have younger player who is as good as mbape at their disposal. So, they have no option than to use Ronaldo as their arrow man and everybody can see that Manchester United are struggling even when you compare their performance with last 2 seasons.
AustyUba2020
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Messi is Great but RONALDO IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME 💯🤞
themainman
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We were saying Messi will flop out fo barca but they didn't believe us. . messi fans, we told you so. your goat is one club man.
choola32
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Ronaldo has the greatest attacking header, the football world has ever seen. He has 140+ header goals in his career. Most players don't even have 100 goals in their career. So if you're coach would you ask ronaldo to play deep and waste his one of biggest strengths. If messi has aerial abilities techniques like Ronaldo do you think messi would play deep like he does. No absolutely not. And by the way people who are saying he is not a playmaker just know Ronaldo has selected for the uefa team of the year 4 times as a midfielder. Iniesta has 5 selections. 6 years he spent in Manchester he played LW LMF or RMF never played as a striker. But he won every individual award in 2008. Balon d or, Fifa best, Golden boot, premier league best player etc. Some of the recods in that year are still unbreakable. 🐐🐐