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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...

Just knew this thread would have the classic nonsense. :lol: Portugal's 2016 run was against garbage, stop pretending otherwise. They scraped out of a crap group and only played literally one good team, in the final. Argentina have literally NEVER BEATEN Brazil in Brazil in a competitive...

Tactics nowadays are just as further advanced as fitness is. Messi is a supreme athlete, regardless of how he looks compared to other modern players. Players in general are running more per match than they were in the past, and the difference grows in KMs the further back you go. I remember...

I'd say the bigger overall issue is the move towards collective tactical movements are starting to choke the flair and style out of the sport. We are firmly in an era of physical, fast pressing football. Guys like Neymar, with old fashioned Samba style, aren't really excelling at the top levels...

Well the refs are the reason you are the current champions, so perhaps you're just catching up on that karma. :wenger: ;)

Why didn't he look at VAR? HOW. Why does this nonsense happen to Barca so often. Literally nothing happened there.

How do you score by hitting the bar twice in one shot. :D :lol:

Fair enough on the Passarella omission, but the rest stands. It's not a poor squad, at all. The very fact they won the tournament proves that. People having issues in the camp was not uncommon even to this day, but it's still a great squad of players. I don't see how this is "twisting" anything...

You'll need to wait 4-5 years to see if they both move to Spain or England, and establish direct competition with each other for regular honours as well as personal awards/top scorer awards and such, since that was was really drove the Messi Ronaldo thing. If Ronaldo never moves to Madrid I...

Argentina's 86 team is almost certainly their best ever team, I don't know where this ongoing idea comes from that Maradona carried plumbers and such. Valdano, Burruchaga and Ruggeri were in that squad, Passarella, arguably South America's best ever centre back and the Captain of the 78 WC...

Very good points. The assumptions are often along the lines of "Messi is a bette playmaker, and Ronaldo is the better shooter/striker" but Messi has a better goals per games ratio, and a better shots to goals ratio, and even more goals outside the box which most people don't even consider. The...

It was always the wrong move. Juve needed to rejuvenate their squad, but they didn't. Ronaldo alone can't cover the increasing flaws in the squad at his age.

They didn't blow it! Only one more chance to blow it now. :D

They are honestly the jammiest team in the CL, all sorts of things just seem to fall into their lap. :yawn:

This team are still miles off being CL winner calibre, but there are enough good young talents and good squad players that with a few top signings, they could be decent again and compete for trophies regularly.