The €ristiano Ronaldo Thread [R] Part €9[4 million] - #1 Huslta gettin money

Keep in mind I said durations. Real are better with Ronaldo, but to claim they are as dependant on him this season as Barca are on Messi is just crazy.

 

sh!t. he seems hurt

 

Surprise, surprise. Messi to Xavi, Xavi to Messi. Goal.

Meanwhile, Ronnie had 2-3 chances to beat Pique with speed and couldn't get past him. Then, he spent the rest of the half limping around the field. Wouldn't surprise me if he's done for the day.

 

You know? Forget about Messi and Ronaldo. Give the award to Xavi. He's sick. If Barcelona finished all his passes, it would be 4-0 by now.

 

I don't want to discredit Messi at all, but its difficult to bring up just one player when considering Barcelona. Watching them right now, they are simply too good, for any team. Their ability with the ball is just amazing, and when they don't have it they're so compact in defense. Xavi's passing is straight up sublime.

With all that said, Real Madrid suck bigtime. They don't even look like a team.

 

I agree with everything you said. Barcelona's team play is incredible. The way the ball just bounces around the field, I feel exhausted just imagining what it must feel like for the other team.
This game looked exactly like Champions league final vs MU. Messi pretty quiet but scored his goal. Ronaldo has flashes here and there but can't put the team on his shoulders. Meanwhile, Barcelona gives a masterclass of team soccer while Xavi plays Master of Puppets.

Messi played well - classy finish on 1st goal but was denied in a couple of very good chances in 2nd half; Ronaldo played above average - not terrible, not supernatural either. In particular, he could NOT get past Pique. But he still made a lot of good passes and crosses and ran around the pitch trying to create stuff. It was very similar to some of his games for the NT during qualies; team play was nearly non-existant - pretty much "pass to Ronaldo and see what happens". Higuain barely touched the ball.
Xavi - incredible. The guy is just 2 steps ahead of everybody. His passes are telepathic. Sublime passes for both goals and he set up 2 others that somehow didn't go in.

 

The only good thing about Rela Madrid this season is providing motivation for Ronaldo in the World Cup...and healing Pepe fantastically well, because he will participate in their last 3 games

Chelsea should take note.

Also, Real Madrid's coach is an idiot.

You guys believe Ronaldo is going to have a big world cup?

 

Sure about that? Sounds plausible in theory, but don't see much evidence of it. If anything, Ronaldo saw plenty of the ball whereas Higuain didn't get a sniff of it today. Ramos and Ronaldo were playing on opposite sides of the field most of the game. Xabi was not particularly interested in even playing the ball - he spent most his time trying to take off limbs in midfield (it's a miracle Real ended the game with 11 - Barcelona is going back black & blue). Higuain couldn't pass to Ronaldo because he never saw it. And in past games I've certainly seen some chemistry developing between Hig. and Ronaldo - some beautiful give & gos, etc...

 

knock on wood. Hopefully he didn't pick up something today. He spend the later part of the 1st half limping.

 

After today's game, I'm not sure if CR should even be considered the #2 best player.

 

wow...Ronaldo has absolutely NO TOUCH on the ball. TOTALLY doesn't know how to deke past a defender, a shame really. I don't think he will ever win another player of the year award. Messi just has a natural touch on the ball. There was one point early in the game where Ronaldo went past two defenders and TOTALLY screwed up and kicked the ball WAY too far, I mean talk about having no touch but that was atrocious, I see house leaguers with a better touch.He really has to work on that part of his game. Also find he does make the right decisions but it takes him a bit too long and by that time the defenders already know what he's gonna do.PS if he's gonna play like that, get the F off the NT.Thank You.

 

RM= Failure.

still cant believe they have MP as coach. and there defence sucks. Pepe is the glue in that defence.

 

CR9 didn't have a good game but neither did RM. They were crap. The few times CR9 had the ball, the RM players didn't run up to support him. RM didn't stand a chance today.

Not sure how Van der Vaart has a place on this team. I mena, he doesn't really add much and missed a breakaway too It looked like he was scared and just blindly kicked the ball....

 

I'm not a CR9 fanboy by any means but it's not fair to judge a player by just one game.

Let's face it, Messi is amazing but Xavi is the Barcelona's best player. He completly dominates the midfield and how many times has he fed Messi unreal passes?

Xavi deserves more recognition.

 

Agreed. I could have easily said that today's game's really just one more example.

 

lol the knee-jerk reactions on CR are hilarious

 

Xavi is an huge part of the puzzle but he's not there best player, he's there best play maker. Was this match the only Barca game you've watched all season?

 

Best play maker on a team is a key part of the team. Every Barca game's i've watched this season, Xavi has made great passes. I guess i must miss all his bad games....

If this was the only barca match i've watched all season, i wouldn't think Xavi was that great...