DonAndres
Wild Man of Borneo
Ronaldo figured out that 90% of casuals don't give a flying fuck about La Liga or his stats there. And those "casuals" include all the journalists and footballers who voted him for Balon D'or, they probably don't even know how many goals he has.
CL is all that matters for him, and the CL alone with those KO stage goals is why he will win this Balon D'or. He probably doesn't care at all about his dry spell in la liga as long as he gets to keep peppering shots at a rate head and shoulders above everyone else in the CL, with extreme levels of service. It's no surprise that he grabbed his 2 goals as the 5th and 6th in a blowout vs APOEL, just as his pen and garbage time goal vs Tottenham. The team is built to just feed him, Ronaldo's ONLY job out on the football pitch is eat up chances and benefit from the unparalleled creativity of his team.
Dude plays with a one track mind. Run into the box and get point blank chances galore. No surprise that when his teammates are struggling to create chances he looks utterly lost and uniquely useless.
But he knows. He knows that all that matters for perception in football is DEM GOLZ. There's no other team sport where an all-round historically dominant savant like Messi would get disrespected and equated to someone like Ronaldo because GOLZ. Nowhere. Only in football is the analysis of the sport so primitive and elementary that it all boils down to goals and nothing else. No one in football has ever even paid attention to shots per goal or shots per game or efficiency in general. Let alone more advanced things like shot creation or gravity or positional advantage. Football is just too stupid of a sport for Messi, or better to say football fans are too stupid for football to understand Messi.
CL is all that matters for him, and the CL alone with those KO stage goals is why he will win this Balon D'or. He probably doesn't care at all about his dry spell in la liga as long as he gets to keep peppering shots at a rate head and shoulders above everyone else in the CL, with extreme levels of service. It's no surprise that he grabbed his 2 goals as the 5th and 6th in a blowout vs APOEL, just as his pen and garbage time goal vs Tottenham. The team is built to just feed him, Ronaldo's ONLY job out on the football pitch is eat up chances and benefit from the unparalleled creativity of his team.
Dude plays with a one track mind. Run into the box and get point blank chances galore. No surprise that when his teammates are struggling to create chances he looks utterly lost and uniquely useless.
But he knows. He knows that all that matters for perception in football is DEM GOLZ. There's no other team sport where an all-round historically dominant savant like Messi would get disrespected and equated to someone like Ronaldo because GOLZ. Nowhere. Only in football is the analysis of the sport so primitive and elementary that it all boils down to goals and nothing else. No one in football has ever even paid attention to shots per goal or shots per game or efficiency in general. Let alone more advanced things like shot creation or gravity or positional advantage. Football is just too stupid of a sport for Messi, or better to say football fans are too stupid for football to understand Messi.
