In a week where manager Jose Mourinho stated that Cristiano Ronaldo needed to win big trophies to be considered The Best Player in the World, it was Lionel Messi who ruled the day in Manchester.
Best Player? Emphatically.
Best Player on Best Team with Best Manager though?
Not.
Still, what a player. We don't think that Jose Mourinho should be dictating the terms of an "individual" title. He is only about Collective Conquests which flout rules and laws.
But the Best Player? He is only about...beauty. Pure beauty. And today that beauty was more Messi than Ronaldo.
"According to his peers in England, Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo remains the Premier League’s outstanding player but when it comes to the world stage he may still have to bow to Lionel Messi...It is Ronaldo not Messi who will grace the final of the Champions League after the Portugal international, voted the Player of the Year by his fellow players for the second year running, helped United to overcome Barcelona in their semi-final...No-one, though, could have done more than Messi to try to influence the second leg at Old Trafford on Tuesday—apart from Paul Scholes who scored the only goal of United’s 1-0 victory...The 20-year-old Messi, three years Ronaldo’s junior, was the outstanding attacking player on show and almost single-handedly led Barcelona’s attempt to claw back Scholes’s early goal and take the 2006 winners through to Moscow with an away goal...Though United defended well, they could hardly lay a finger on the bewitching winger who rode tackle after tackle to try to create the decisive opening...One typically elusive run and shot in the first half had Edwin van der Sar at full stretch to save. Thereafter, the Argentina international picked and probed at the United back line to create openings for team mates which they were unable to take."
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Best Player? Emphatically.
Best Player on Best Team with Best Manager though?
Not.
Still, what a player. We don't think that Jose Mourinho should be dictating the terms of an "individual" title. He is only about Collective Conquests which flout rules and laws.
But the Best Player? He is only about...beauty. Pure beauty. And today that beauty was more Messi than Ronaldo.
"According to his peers in England, Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo remains the Premier League’s outstanding player but when it comes to the world stage he may still have to bow to Lionel Messi...It is Ronaldo not Messi who will grace the final of the Champions League after the Portugal international, voted the Player of the Year by his fellow players for the second year running, helped United to overcome Barcelona in their semi-final...No-one, though, could have done more than Messi to try to influence the second leg at Old Trafford on Tuesday—apart from Paul Scholes who scored the only goal of United’s 1-0 victory...The 20-year-old Messi, three years Ronaldo’s junior, was the outstanding attacking player on show and almost single-handedly led Barcelona’s attempt to claw back Scholes’s early goal and take the 2006 winners through to Moscow with an away goal...Though United defended well, they could hardly lay a finger on the bewitching winger who rode tackle after tackle to try to create the decisive opening...One typically elusive run and shot in the first half had Edwin van der Sar at full stretch to save. Thereafter, the Argentina international picked and probed at the United back line to create openings for team mates which they were unable to take."
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