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Cristiano Ronaldo...still top 2?

Shady

JazzG wrote:
If C.Ronaldo bangs another 60 goals in this season Neymar will have to be extraordinary to surpass that!

Is it just about the numbers?

5 of Ronaldo's 6 league goals have come in one match. He pads his stats out with meaningless goals.

Rex

Goals are goals, and Ronaldo is top class at scoring them. I much prefer watching Neymar, but I wouldn't say he is better than Ronaldo.

Claudius

Shady wrote:
JazzG wrote:
If C.Ronaldo bangs another 60 goals in this season Neymar will have to be extraordinary to surpass that!

Is it just about the numbers?

5 of Ronaldo's 6 league goals have come in one match. He pads his stats out with meaningless goals.

I wish we had some stat ladders on our squad

Klaus

jones wrote:

The way he murdered the last defender is some Bergkamp level shit right there.

One of my favourite goals of all time. It comes so easy to him.

MistaT

I'm sure it would to Messi, Ronaldo, Zlatan, etc if they were playing in Brazil.

Klaus

Class is class no matter where you play. You don't see goals like the one Neymar scored very often because they require something extra. Otherwise two-bob players would score them all the time.

MistaT

Very true, I'm just suggesting that Ronaldo wouldn't be simply a "poacher" if he played in Brazil. He would be afforded a lot more lax defending to bring back his other skills.

jones

Ronaldo never possessed Neymar's skill on the ball though, not even remotely imo.

Klaus

Yeah, I could see Messi or Ibra score that goal. Ronaldo not so much. His best season to date is still the 07/08 season when he won Champions League with United. After that he decided to phase out the technical excellence from his game in favour of physical superiority and poachery.

Coombs

I think y'all are severely underrating Cristiano's technical ability. He's unbelievably consistent and can do almost anything with the ball, at pace to boot.

est

Quite the tap-in this.

Qwiss

Classic no technical ability poaching there.

Bold Tone

I don't like the man but CRonaldo is still unbelievable.
Only Messi, when fit, is better.

Shady

That goal was two years ago 😆

He has regressed technically since then. He's also not as explosive.

JazzG

Shady wrote:
Is it just about the numbers?

5 of Ronaldo's 6 league goals have come in one match. He pads his stats out with meaningless goals.

Not always but 60 goals is serious number in one season, not too long ago scoring that in two seasons would put you in the top bracket of strikers.

Shady

Ronaldo has played 13 matches, and scored in 4 of them. Espanol (A), Shakhtar (H), Malmo (A), and Levante (H).

However, in total he has 11 goals in 13 games.

Basically, he has failed to score in 6 league games this season, despite the Spanish season being only 2 months old.

Last season he failed to score in 13 league games through the whole campaign.

Last season he scored in 8/8 league games.

year before 5/8.

year before 5/8 also.

year before 4/8.

year before 6/8.

This season he has scored in 2 of his first 8 league games. The decline is there boys and girls.

Bold Tone

Not as watertight as you think even though i also think, at 30 yrs of age, he is not at the height of his powers.
A few years back, he and Messi were depended upon to score almost all their team goals.
Nowadays he has Bale and James cramping his style like Messi now having to plays on the right as he has Suarez and Neymar for company.
As for the stats, you could go with the argument that with the season only being 2 months old they are not very relevant.
A few weeks back when OG was our top scorer, nobody said Walcott or Sanchez were declining as it was too early.

jones

Can't stand Müller but that made me 😆

Shady

Neymar is on another level to Ronaldo now.

I don't think it's close between them. I think I'd also rather have Suarez over CR.

Rex

Neymar was a little bit good today again, wasn't he? 🙂

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