Round 3 Modric vs. Iceland Quiet game, didn't create any great chances, nor had any chances to score and Croatia scored two goals without him. It's not as bad as being suspended in a crucial game like Zidane, but it's the closest one. World Cup Performance Index, considering statistics, the best (and worst) plays, importance and relation of quality of opposition and own team. Color highlighted as gold, silver, bronze ball, or not in Top 3. 1. Messi 14 vs Nigeria 2. Robben 14 vs Chile Cruyff 74 vs Bulgaria Pele 70 vs Romania Jairzinho 70 vs Romania 6. G.Müller 70 vs Peru Eusebio 66 vs Brazil 8. Romario 94 vs Sweden Schillaci 90 vs Czechoslovakia 10. Maradona 86 vs Bulgaria 11. Forlan 10 vs Mexico Rossi 82 vs Cameroon 13. Charlton 66 vs France 14. Ronaldo 02 vs Costa Rica Ronaldo 98 vs Norway Suker 98 vs Argentina Kempes 78 vs Italy 18. Modric 18 vs Iceland 19. Zidane 06 (double yellow)
Round 4 Modric vs. Denmark Created 3 great chance's, missed a penalty and scored in SO. Because Croatia managed crucial goal without his input, it isn't really Romario vs USA tier, but at the same time, he created 3 chances to 1 miss and scored in SO, which is why feel it's better than the second last tier, which has same importance, but where players mostly scored a goal from many chances. World Cup Performance Index, considering statistics, the best (and worst) plays, importance and relation of quality of opposition and own team. Color highlighted as gold, silver, bronze ball, or not in Top 3. 1. Eusebio vs North Korea 2. Messi 14 vs Switzerland Kempes 78 vs Poland 4. Robben 14 vs Mexico 5. Cruyff 74 vs Argentina 6. Forlan 10 vs South Korea Zidane 06 vs Spain Maradona 86 vs Uruguay Jairzinho 70 vs Peru 10. Suker 98 vs Romania Romario 94 vs USA 12. Modric 18 vs Denmark 13. Ronaldo 02 vs Belgium Ronaldo 98 vs Chile Schillaci 90 vs Uruguay Rossi 82 vs Argentina Pele 70 vs Peru G.Müller 70 vs England 19. Charlton 66 vs Argentina
Round 5 Modric vs Russia Failed tackle on his man which allowed Russia's goal, assisted one goal of two team goals, created one additional chance which also turned into a bad miss, and also scored in the SO. It's again difficult to directly compare when unusually player was directly resposible of goal for opponent, but I think it compares to Romario vs Netherlands. Tie in importance, Romario involved 1/3 goals, Modric involved 1/2 goals + opponents goal + SO goal. In quality both created one additional great chance but slight favor for Modric for missing only one great chance instead of two. World Cup Performance Index, considering statistics, the best (and worst) plays, importance and relation of quality of opposition and own team. Color highlighted as gold, silver, bronze ball, or not in Top 3. 1. Maradona 86 vs England Rossi 82 vs Brazil 3. Forlan 10 vs Ghana 4. Charlton 66 vs Portugal 5. Zidane 06 vs Brazil 6. Suker 98 vs Germany 7. Messi 14 vs Belgium Robben 14 vs Costa Rica Ronaldo 98 vs Denmark 10. Jairzinho 70 vs Uruguay Eusebio 66 vs England 12. Schillaci 90 vs Ireland G.Müller 70 vs Italy 14. Modric 18 vs Belgium 15. Romario 94 vs Netherlands Pele 70 vs Uruguay 17. Kempes 78 vs Brazil 18. Cruyff 74 vs East Germany 19. Ronaldo 02 vs England
Round 6 Modric vs England Again started the game with an abysmal tackle, which led to the England goal, and created one good chance when Croatia scored two goals without his input. It's a bad performance. I don't think it's the worst performance in this round, because Charlton also pretty much did nothing when England scored 4 goals, but it's very close. World Cup Performance Index, considering statistics, the best (and worst) plays, importance and relation of quality of opposition and own team. Color highlighted as gold, silver, bronze ball, or not in Top 3. 1. Maradona 86 vs Belgium 2. Ronaldo 02 vs Turkey 3. Schillaci 90 vs Argentina Rossi 82 vs Poland 5. Kempes 78 vs Peru Cruyff 74 vs Brazil 7. Suker 98 vs France 8. Pele 70 vs Italy Jairzinho 70 vs Italy 10. Romario 94 vs Sweden G.Müller 70 vs Uruguay 12. Messi 14 vs Netherlands Forlan 10 vs Netherlands Ronaldo 98 vs Netherlands 15. Robben 14 vs Argentina Zidane 06 vs Portugal 17. Eusebio 66 vs Soviet Union 18. Modric 18 vs England 19. Charlton 66 vs West Germany
Round 7 Modric vs France Nothing much happened for Modric in this game, was part of the first goal of the two Croatia scored. I think it fits right below Forlan 10, with same importance, although Forlan had more eventful game missing and creating couple more chances. World Cup Performance Index, considering statistics, the best (and worst) plays, importance and relation of quality of opposition and own team. Color highlighted as gold, silver, bronze ball, or not in Top 3. 1. Kempes 78 vs Netherlands 2. Robben 14 vs Brazil Schillaci 90 vs England Suker 98 vs Netherlands Cruyff 74 vs West Germany 6. Forlan 10 vs Germany Ronaldo 02 vs Germany 8. Modric 18 vs France 9. Rossi 82 vs West Germany 10. Maradona 86 vs West Germany 11. Messi 14 vs Germany 12. Ronaldo 98 vs France 13. Romario 94 vs Italy 14. Zidane 06 vs Italy
Yeah, watching the games I got a feeling that Rakitic was actually better, although I wasn't concentrating on him, many chances originated from him. Hazard easily had better performance than Modric, even without analyzing it. I still have to write a summary and rate the whole performance for Modric but it isn't looking too good.
Messi compares decently actually. Maybe not so much with Pele and Maradona, but everyone else for sure. Its just that people set a very high bar for him. Perhaps righty so because he’s the best of his era. But take for e.g. : - the outrage from Messi winning ballon dor for WC 2014. Where was the outrage for Modric winning the same four years later? Should I congratulate Croatia on winning the World cup? - Cruyff losing a WC final is considered almost romantic through nostalgic glasses, but Messi doing the exact same is widely classified as a “choke”. But then again, Cruyff did light it up in the final. Oh wait.... - Messi widely critisized for disappearing from the QF stage onward in WC 2014, Ronaldo disappeared after 5 minutes of the second group stage game in 2018 yet widely considered to have had a very good tournament.
Nah, they will be lost on there, and I will make comparison to Messi's WC14 performance, and football journalism on whole. The whole comparison started when people were slating Messi's performance, even though it's one of the best ever in the World Cup, yet nobody is batting an eye on Modric when it isn't even remotely as good as Messi's, maybe even the worst Golden Ball performance. I had a thread for this subject on beautiful game forum, but I can't access it anymore because of biased mods. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/maradona-86-vs-messi-14.2008702/
Modric WC18 2 goals from 2 great scoring chances 9 great scoring chances created 15 players beaten by dribble (OPTA) 11 tackles (OPTA) Goals (Scored + Assisted + Involved) 6 (2 (1p) + 1 + 3) out of 14 team goals = 43% importance (+ 2 SO Goals) Goals Scored Nigeria 1 Argentina 1 Great Scoring Chances Missed Denmark 1 Russia 1 Great Chances Created Nigeria 1 Argentina 1 Denmark 1 Denmark 2 Russia 1 Russia 2 Denmark 3 England 1 France 1
Real Madrid fan on Cristiano RONALDO: @AlanazoRM tweeted: “This is how he pays us back after we had to lie for 9 years saying he was better than Messi.”
Messi actually was just as decisive in the knockout stages of the 2018 WC as the 2014 WC. In fact he probably did better in the knockouts this time than he did in 2014, as he didn’t miss a decisive 1v1 in the final this time. He surely should have been best player of 2018 also.
The fact that you define that as “1v1” proves my point that the bar is set so much higher for Messi than anyone else. But, yes, he did get two assists against France . In the Modric world that would be an entire tournament of productivity.
Still more decisive than Cristiano has been ever been in any of his World Cup knockouts. All Cristiano is known for is his winking after getting people sent off. Or are you not “following” Cristiano anymore?
People who think Ronaldo had a better World Cup than Messi is retarded. Argies with a shite squad wasn’t even that bad against the champions. First off, Argentina wouldn’t have qualified to the quarters if it wasn’t for Messi’s first goal against Nigeria.
He explains how senior members of the team led my Messi and Mascherano squared up with Sampaoli and his assistants Sebastián Beccacece and Lionel Scaloni, listing their grievances for 15 minutes before telling the manager: ‘We do not get what you say. We no longer trust you. We want to have an opinion.’ ‘On what?’ Sampaoli asked, to which the group replied: ‘Everything.’ According to the book, the Argentina boss then asked: ‘so you are going to put the team together, direct in training, everything?’ That drew a response from Messi, who replied: ‘You have asked me 10 times which players I wanted in the line-up and which I didn’t, and I never gave you a single name. Tell me, in front of everyone, if I ever gave you any names.’
Such a horrible mess for us. As to what Messi said, I have always felt he has been the guy to not meddle in any of this, like it has been claimed that he decides which players he wants to play with, the “Messi and friends” phenomenon. Not because he’s such a nice guy, but because he only seems to want to play — not lead or manage a team. Secondly, imagine a CEO of a company asking his employers, so you want to direct the company from now on....biggest flaw with Sampaoli was that he tried to fit his system on a group of players who had no aptitude to play that system. Good managers fit their system around the players they have.
I wouldn't think so either, but there were so many rumors that when there is typically smoke there is fire. I saw Crespo in one of those WC daily review programs on Fox basically say that he does influence player call ups. Perhaps it was just Icardi and then everything else got extrapolated.
For a Golden Ball performance Modric WC18 isn't good, for me it's the third worst performance. It's pretty equal to Charlton 66, maybe slightly better. Both were involved the same amount of team goals 45% vs 43%, both advanced the play same by dribbling 15 players, and although Modric created more chances, Charlton tackled more and were better round by round in four games to three. This again gives additional perspective how good Messi WC14 performance really was, and how football journalist work for creating exaggerated headlines (mostly fake) to drive traffic to their sites, and how this then usually gets instilled on football fans memory. Messi scored twice the goals, was involved almost all the team goals 88% to 43%, created twice the great chances, was round by round better in 6 games, advanced the game by dribbling three times more and even had the same amount of tackles. Croatia even conceded two goals directly because Modric failed tackle on his man. Whole deluded football world shat on Messi WC14, and didn't bat an eye for Modric's WC18 Golden Ball, and that alone already shows why football today is fake on media level. World Cup performance index, considering statistics, the best (and worst) plays, importance and relation of quality of opposition and own team. Color highlighted as golden, silver, bronze ball, or not in Top 3. 1. Maradona 86 Messi 14 3. Kempes 78 4. Jairzinho 70 5. Robben 14 Cruyff 74 7. Forlan 10 8. Romario 94 9. Eusebio 66 Pele 70 Rossi 82 12. G.Müller 70 Schillaci 90 Suker 98 15. Ronaldo 02 Charlton 66 Modric 18 18. Ronaldo 98 19. Zidane 06