[El Wardo]

Raed, on May 6 2009, 06:21 PM, said:

One thing to note though, I don't recall the last time Ronaldo had the ball at his feet and beat a man without passing the ball. His teammates bailed him out a lot.

cause you can only be a good footballer by running past defenders Messi-style... right.

[chucka]

El Wardo, on May 8 2009, 04:36 PM, said:

cause you can only be a good footballer by running past defenders Messi-style... right.

No, but Ronaldo the 'tricky winger' who takes on loads of players and is full of jaw dropping skill should be able to, and should be able to easily, right?

This post has been edited by chucka: 08 May 2009 - 06:41 PM

[Raed]

El Wardo, on May 8 2009, 11:36 AM, said:

cause you can only be a good footballer by running past defenders Messi-style... right.

How did you arrive to this conclusion? I never said he wasn't a good footballer and I never used Messi's style as a criteria. On the contrary, I like Ronaldo and all the hard work he puts in unlike a lot of his counter parts who have more skill but their heads are so far up their asses they can chew their own food twice.

I merely stated a visible fact.

[El Wardo]

Raed, on May 9 2009, 04:38 AM, said:

How did you arrive to this conclusion? I never said he wasn't a good footballer and I never used Messi's style as a criteria. On the contrary, I like Ronaldo and all the hard work he puts in unlike a lot of his counter parts who have more skill but their heads are so far up their asses they can chew their own food twice.

I merely stated a visible fact.

the first part is a visible fact, the second part (him teammates bailing him out) is crap.

I wonder why you would state a visible fact while it is completely irrelevant, and apparantly conclude from it that he is bailed out by his teammates just cause he isn't running past people with the ball at his feet? That has never been the major aspect of his game.

[Raed]

Ward, I don't know what you are arguing. I am saying if I were to depend on Ronaldo to beat a man marker he couldn't do it. Everytime he was faced with an opponent with Ronaldo static, all he did was move his legs over the ball in a fancy manner, not actually doing anything with it until one of his teammates came close for Ronaldo to pass it to him. He wasn't able to find players to pass to, and nor was he able to beat a man.

He does his job mighty well at Manchester United, and he is a superstar for it. He might do it again against Barcelona and credit to him he would have helped Man U win the CL with his goal, again.