Hahah fair play. I looked it up and Cristiano did score 3 freekick braces so far in his career. Amazing for a guy so bad at it.
CR was a magnificent free-kick taker in the early days of his career. Only since 2013 or 2014 did he really turn into shite at them. In fact he was so good at them in early part of his career he still has more total free-kick goals than Messi to this day despite Leo dominating in this area as of late and Cristiano falling off a cliff.
Messi has 52 free-kick goals in his carer whereas Ronaldo has 53.
It is an inevitability Leo will pass him at this point, but the difference was much larger even two years ago.
In 2017:
CR7 - 51 free-kick goals
Messi- 34 free-kick goals
Therefore, the sum in the two previous seasons shows Messi's free-kick dominance as off lately: 2 goals (CR7) - 18 goals (Leo).
Yes, Messi did not take all that many the free-kicks in the early part of his career, but the Ronaldo slander does not make sense.