Kane, Haaland, Lukaku have better per game ratios with the national team than Ronaldo (0.6 per game).
And none of them will ever outscore him internationally
And none of them will end their WC campaign with 0 goals in 8 knockouts in five World Cup tournaments. For Haaland, we need to wait though.
Nation's league means f all. It's just a recently made up new money making scheme tournament from UEFA trying to find a way to turn euro and WC qualifiers into a competition since no one cares about so many qualifying games usually. They still don't. Nation's league is just qualifiers.
You only answered half of the questions. Only those who fit your agenda
How did I answer half? You mean because I didn't mention anything about the actual Euros? Yeah that's because Euros is actually a big international tournament that matters. I don't need to answer anything about it.
-Ronaldo's 20 year-long international career in a nutshell-
Playing a hundred games more than the average player also matters. A lot! That's why we celebrate Ryan Giggs. Yes, he didn't win much with Wales. But he played for a long time. It matters a lot. That's why nobody really cares about the highest ratio of goals per game, nobody mentions it.
Ronaldo has scored around 50 more career goals since turning 30 than Lukaku has in his entire career
What has that to do with what he said?
There are numbers, facts and figures that goes beyond trying to downplay them by adding random goalposts.
Has he changed clubs again?
I got involved because you answered something conpletely out of context that had nothing to do with the argument you quoted.
I think it has more to do with that its Lukkaku and not a generational talent. Still I think its petty to take stabs at Ronaldos longevity and records. Like everyone says, there is a reason why he has those records and others dont.
Its 17 more to be exact (397 vs. 380), including 38 goals in 19 matches against Armenia, Andorra, Faroe Islands, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and New Zealand, 30 goals in Saudi Arabia and 56 penalty goals (Lukaku has 36), but whatever. Why make up numbers?
I dont know if that's true or not but he was awful yesterday. Worst portuguese player on the pitch, still waving his hands around every time he didnt get the pass.
Lukaku has played for Chelsea (x2) United and Inter?!
Well, you can also look at the group before applauding. Fecking Luxembourg is comfortably third:
If you dont watch enough football you can probably say its easy matches. But away to Bosnia, Slovakia and Iceland is never easy. 30/30 is impressiveWell, you can also look at the group before applauding. Fecking Luxembourg is comfortably third:
he might go to Saudi Arabia nextAh yes, the good old "you probably don't watch enough football" argument. So deep and nuanced. Yes, Bosnia away, for example, is so hard Portugal was winning only 0-5 by halftime a month ago
Different eras though. There were basically less tactical awareness or defensive football back in those eras too.
That is a wrong take, since there weren't more goals being scored when Gerd Müller was playing in comparison to now:
That's not just the magic of Euro qualifiers. It's the magic of mathematics: there are more matches now.
Are you saying that playing for United 03-09 (PL champions 3 times and CL champion 1 time (finalist 2 times) and had won the PL 8 out of the last 11 years before he arrived), Real Madrid 09-18 (the Galacticos, champions every 2nd year, scoring 100+ goals in LaLiga every season he was there, no club has more european trophies etc.) and Juventus 18-21 (won 7 straight scudettos before he arrived) is comparable to playing for Chelsea 21-22 (He had 0 starts for Chelsea in 11-12) comming off a 67 point season (scoring 58 goals total) in the PL and a fluky CL win, Inter (hadn't won a trophy in 10 years when he arrived) and us 17-19 (we haven't been even romotely close to dominate anything the last 10 years) ?
WC is really a small size sample for making such claim. Its like taking less than 0.1% of the total goals/games played back in those time, which makes it really negligible when we are comparing general stats of the games across eras.
Not if you're Portugal. In those three matches combined their goalkeeper had to make one save total. Goal difference 36-2, 9 clean sheets, 0 goals conceded away from home tells a story of a Q-group that was the opposite of hard. Probably one of the easiest Q-groups ever. The one game Ronaldo didn't play they won 9-0 against 3rd placed Luxembourg...
Sure, your gut feeling that strikers used to score more goals outweighs the official statistics I posted.
What a ridiculous way to try and dismiss one of the world's best footballers of a lifetime
Don't ask me what happened, but around 2011 something strange happened to international football. Messi and Ronaldo at the time were floating around the 25 goal mark for their nations, and the top scorer for nearly every nation was around the 50 mark. Then everyone started scoring nearly a goal a game, every big striker for every big nation just bucketing goals, Lukaku, Kane later on, Ronaldo and Messi themselves, Lewandowski, Mbappe now, Suarez, Cavani etc etc etc.
You'd also think that Ronaldo played his entire career as a centre forward, given that is goal ratio is now being compared to other CFs
These people are best left alone. Seriously.What a ridiculous way to try and dismiss one of the world's best footballers of a lifetime
