Forget the goals! You're all as bad as Cristiano himself. Its not about tap in versus creating a goal yourself. For people trying, rightly, to say that goals don't automatically equal greatness, you seem awfully fixated on goals, albiet 'beautiful ones', indeed being a main measure of it.
Messi isn't better than CR because he scores more beautiful goalls. Cristiano could never ever perform as Leo did in the Manita. He dictated an entire game, created everything, controlled the style and effectiveness of our attacks, at will. Tore open the defence repeatedly, other times dropped back to control tempo or help manipulate the opponents shape. Doing it all with phenomenal technique, control, passing, dribbling and knowhow. And didn't score a single goal.
It has very little to do with goals, of any kind. Call me crazy but in my honest experienced opinion Cristiano in Madrid has never been in the worlds top TWO, let alone d'OR*. Still up around there, obviously, but now I'm going to get a lot of flack.
*For the record I believe Iniesta was the worlds 2nd best during huge chunks of the Pep years. Other players who were briefly 2nd best include Sneidjer, Xavi and more recently Suarez.
