The relation between football opinions, life opinions, and living conditions: Messi vs Ronaldo
About the different factors impacting how people view the sport, such as football logic, geography, politics, & other demographical aspects.
Most G/A in football history:
1 - Messi 🇦🇷 : 1127
2 - Pele 🇧🇷 : ~1126
Lionel Messi has now surpassed Pelé as the player with the most Goals and Assists in history 🐐
Most succ. Dribbles in 1 game
1. ronaldo ( 20 ) Benfica
2. ronaldo ( 18 ) arsenal
3. ronaldo ( 14 ) roma
4. Maradona ( 13 ) England
5. Messi ( 11 ) eibar
6 ronaldo ( 11 ) atletico madrid
7. Bojan ( 10 ) Valencia
8. Messi ( 10 ) betis
9. Ronaldo ( 10 ) shaktar
Dani Alves adapted to the modern game so well. He used to be the width older for Messi to go inside and now he does the opposite to allow Dembélé to stay wide, he turns 39 years old in 1 month and a half…
Lisandro Martinez had an aerial duel success rate of 71% last season. More than Koulibaly (55%), Ruben Dias (59%) & De Ligt (63%).
Aerial monster 🇦🇷 [A THREAD]
Every month Man City fans pick a new CB of theirs and call him the best in the world. Putting almost all the credit on him only to completely switch up a few games later.
Players with the most progressive passes in top 5 leagues this season :
🥇Messi : 127 (10.9 p90)
🥈Kimmich : 103 (9.2 p90)
🥉Kroos : 89 (10.5 p90)
Playmakers 🎯
Some of you have been complaining about Messi over-appearing on the lists I post, but I literally don’t have the choice. Look at any stat on FBref/Soccerment this season and he’s always first or second.
I don’t make Messi appear on lists, he makes himself appear on mines.
Footballers with the most through balls in top 5 leagues this season :
1) Messi : 20 (0.91 p90)
2) Trent : 18 (0.61 p90)
3) Kane : 16 (0.49 p90)
Pass behind the defenders 🔥
I often receive criticism that I’m a Messi fan when I should be unbiased but the truth is that he’s the best ever, it’s not my fault if he tops every graph
I’m a Juventus fan and I like Ronaldo, he’s very important to us but I’m not a fan of either, I just accept the reality
Xavi’s deep progressions in 2011/12 compared to 2021/22’s leaders :
𝟭) 𝗫𝗮𝘃𝗶 : 𝟮𝟯.𝟬
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2) Thiago : 14.5
3) Kroos : 13.1
4) Messi : 12.8
5) Laporte : 12.0
Best central midfielder of all time 🇪🇸
Neymar has scored or assisted in each of his last 15 games for club and country. Equalizing Messi’s and Ronaldo’s best G/A streak of 15 straight matchs for both.
One last goal contribution needed tomorrow to make history 🇧🇷
Most xT accumulated in Champions League this season so far :
1) Mahrez : +6.21 (0.93 p90)
2) Vinicius : +6.15 (0.91 p90)
3) Messi : +6.12 (1.02 p90)
Creators 🎯
Tweets complaining about a decision and then literally proving it right with the picture below are insanely funny.
It’s like if a criminal used a video of him killing someone to prove that he’s innocent.
People are just going to act like a club who has been proven to have the referee committee president AND the VAR media rights owner under their payroll for decades having this call go in their favor to win the league is very normal and natural. That's the funny part.
Lionel Messi xA evolution during this season so far (league + UCL) :
First 10 games : 1.5 xA (0.23 p90)
Last 4 games : 2.9 xA (0.73 p90)
Messi’s final pass is back 🎯
Players with the most pre-assists in top 5 leagues this season so far :
🥇Pedri : 6 (1.18 p90)
🥈De Bruyne : 5 (0.74 p90)
🥉Hojbjerg : 4 (0.51 p90)
Orchestrators 🎯
Players with the most progressive passes in top 5 leagues this season :
🥇Messi : 133 (10.6 p90)
🥈Verratti : 125 (9.1 p90)
🥉Kimmich : 125 (8.8 p90)
Progressors 🔝
Neymar has now scored or assisted in each of his last 16 games for club and country after scoring against Toulouse today. Beating Messi’s and Ronaldo’s best G/A streak of 15 straight matches for both.
He is now tied with Lewandowski for the best G/A streak of the 21st century.
Most pre-assists in top 5 leagues this season :
1) Messi : 16
2) B. Fernandes : 13
3) Tielemans : 10
4-6) Lukaku, Sané & Sanchez : 9
An interesting method to judge last pass creativity 👀
No player has made more progressive passes p90 than Messi (10.2) in top 5 leagues last season. At the same period, no player received more of them at a better rate than Mbappé (13.2).
Perfect duo 🇦🇷 x 🇫🇷
Whether or not he deserves it is a completely different debate. But there is no doubt that Lionel Messi will win the Ballon d’Or 2023 based on their criteria and voters
The race is over and has been since last December 🏆
No Renato Sanches doesn’t “only“ exists for Portugal, he was having an amazing season with Lille before his injury and helped them to win the league
Just say that you only watch the Premier League 👍
Players with the most xA in top 5 leagues this season so far :
🥇Messi : 6.8 (0.58 p90)
🥈De Bruyne : 5.4 (0.51 p90)
🥉Neymar : 4.8 (0.47 p90)
Final passers 🎯
Most assists in top international tournaments since the 2000’s :
World Cup - Totti : 6 (0.66 p90)
Euros - Ronaldo : 6 (0.25 p90)
C. America - Messi : 17 (0.53 p90)
Will someone overtake them ?
Footballers with the most through balls in top 5 leagues last season :
1) Messi : 24 (1.00 p90)
2) Trent : 20 (0.63 p90)
3) Kane : 19 (0.53 p90)
Pass behind the defenders 🔥
At first I thought that Messi coming to play in Ligue 1 would make people finally rate the league.
But I realized that if Messi plays well they’ll say that it’s because of the bad league and if he plays badly he will get slandered for not performing in “farmers league”
De Gea ranks 80th among the 98 starting goalkeepers in top 5 leagues in term of goals prevented this season (-4.3). He only prevented more than Meslier (-5.7) and Bazunu (-11.1) in the Premier League.
Not having his best season 😬
Messi won the yearly award (Ballon d’Or for 2021) and Lewandowski won the seasonal one (FIFA The Best for 2020/21). When each player had a way better shout for the opposite award.
Make it make sense