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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are two of the best players in the world. In the last 10 years, they took turns to win the title. Since 2009, the two still meet each season. Ronaldo at Real Madrid, Messi at Barcelona
Ronaldo is from Portugal, Messi of Argentina. Unlike Real Madrid and Barcelona who can meet each season on the biggest stage of the Spanish Liga and the UEFA Champions League. Portugal and Argentina can only meet on the biggest stage of the World Cup.
The World Cup is the only event in which Ronaldo and Messi can meet by taking off their great costumes, Real Madrid and Barcelona. , Ronaldo is 33 years old, Messi is 31 years old. The 2018 World Cup will probably be their last World Cup. The ideal fate is if both can meet in the finale.
But shortly after the final match the group stage ends in Group D, fate moves them to meet in the quarterfinals. finalists in their respective groups. Argentina meets France, Portugal meets Uruguay.
However, again, in the last night of June in Russia, fate has changed again. Messi and Ronaldo, Argentina and Portugal, have failed to qualify for the quarterfinals. Argentina lost 3-4 against France, Portugal lost 2-1 against Uruguay. No Ronaldo vs Messi in Russia
Portugal is Ronaldo, Argentina is Messi
See Ronaldo and Messi at the Cup of the World sees the players, not the teams. Portugal and Argentina both have their two best players.
Ronaldo scored 4 goals at the World Cup, Messi only has one goal. However, both are the most prominent players: Ronaldo averages 5.3 shots per game (best with Neymar), Messi 4.5 shots per game (fifth best).
In addition to their respective teams, their play is also important to their opponents. Ronaldo is beaten 3.5 times per game (mostly eight).
Of the six goals scored by Portugal at the World Cup, four of them were scored by Ronaldo. Since Argentina lost 0-3 to Croatia in their second Group D match, Messi would be the regulator of the Argentine team, not their coach Jorge Sampaoli.
Even before the World Cup Sampaoli had predicted: "If Leo [Messi] this team (Argentina) will be more under his control than my control."
There is no record that could show the Portugal's dependence on Ronaldo and Argentina to Messi from all of the above.
But again, we remember The world is not limited to the best players in the world. Portugal is not Real Madrid. Argentina is not Barcelona. Unfortunately until now, until both are eliminated, Portugal is Ronaldo; Argentina is Messi.
Football does not count
There is no Italy and the Netherlands in the 2018 World Cup. We can already pbad from there, although the jokes on both are still pending until today. Putting aside the joke, Italy and the Netherlands do not qualify if the two are not the best teams.
2018 World Cup followed by 32 teams. The 32 teams (with the exception of Russian hosts) are best ranked according to a long qualifying process. Luck approaches sometimes, but we can generally conclude that all the escaped teams (including hosts) are the best.
Without Italy and the Netherlands, the World Cup still has Germany, Brazil, Belgium, Portugal, and Poland. Eight teams called now are the eight best FIFA rankings as of June 7, 2018 (before the World Cup).
Unwittingly, after the knockout stages, the two names have disappeared: Germany (1st place FIFA)) and Poland (8th FIFA). Both became guardians in their respective groups
Then, just one day of the 16 major races, two names are missing, namely Portugal (ranked 4 FIFA) and Argentina (FIFA 5th). Although both have the best players in the world.
There are still two weeks left before we can find the best teams. Looking at the table of competitions above, a glimpse of "injustice" is reflected because the left graph (from Uruguay to Japan) seems heavier than the graph on the right (Spanish to English )
up to the semi-finals in the left-hand table, while the right-hand table is not very promising unless (for example) Spain eventually meets England in the semifinals.
In fact, such judgments make us err. However, 16 teams that qualify again are teams that have been filtered out of the group stage. Those who qualify as group winners and vice-champions do their best
World Cup for the Best Team, not for the Top Players
field, not of maths on paper. On the field, a team of 11 players. At the beginning of the tournament, observers question the best player on each team, as they forgot that there were still 10 other players.
All we know is the 2018 World Cup without Gianluigi Buffon, Arjen Robben, Alexis Sanchez, Gareth Bale, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Marek Hamsik, Miralem Pjanic, David Alaba, Riyad Mahrez, up to # 39 to Zlatan Ibrahimovic
With the exception of Zlatan, all the names of the above players are those who have been considered the best players, at least in their respective countries, but his country does not. failed to qualify for the World Cup.
If the names above were not judged good enough to compete with Ronaldo and Messi, at least the 2017/18 season, there is a very digadang-gadangkan name: Mohamed Salah. Incidentally, Salah appear in the World Cup. But even Salah, who had struggled to bring Egypt to the World Cup, could not finally reach the triumph of the World Cup.
Now, at least three sails are open. Ronaldo and Messi-Added Wrong, the top three players in the world, no longer participate in the World Cup.
This confirms that the World Cup is for the best teams. If this tournament is an individual tournament, one of them must have been the winner. But the highest reward for a better player is still the World Cup trophy itself.
In the last decade Ronaldo and Messi have managed to dominate the best player title in the world. Individual diploma. But in the last decade, we do not see either Ronaldo or Messi as World Cup champion. Remember: It's a World Cup, dude, not a Gold Ball.
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