The Champions League It is the maximum European competition and the great stage where the great footballers end up consecrating themselves. From it, for a matter of merits, the future comes out practically every year Golden Ball, the highest individual distinction. The two most awarded with this title, the kings of the last two decades, Cristiano Ronaldo and leo Messi, they are at a turning point with it. La Orejona, or rather the road to it, has become a headache for the Portuguese and the Argentine this past year more than their usual playground.
Age is unforgiving. The 36 years that he turned CR7 last February and the 34 that will be in May Messi are already big words. Despite its undoubted quality, level and physical condition, performing for more than a decade with such demand in the Champions it seems complicated. Both continue to command and lead statistics in national competitions, in domestic leagues. Yes OK Cristiano Ronaldo continues to lead with notable ease the top scorer of the A league, with 23 goals in 24 games played, Leo Messi does exactly the same in the Santander League with their 23 goals in 26 games.
In the areas, going to door, both stars continue to be differential. With the goal goal, both have the security and ease of solving matches for both the Juventus and the Barça. Paradoxically, neither of the two teams this year is worth the great scoring form of their stars. The Barça is still four points behind Atlético de Madrid, which looks from above. Worse is the situation of the you, which is ten points behind the leader Inter of Milan and four of the Milan, second.
But in the Champions, that magnificence seems to be diluted in recent years. Leo Messi was the first of the two that began to plummet in the highest competition, with him the Barça. The culé club has been since 2015 without lifting the European title, curiously before the Juventus. Since then, the goals and the power of the Argentine have been sterile. This season he has only scored five goals, two of them in the round of 16 against him Paris Saint Germain, one in the first leg and the other in the return, both useless after the recital of Mbappé. Even worse was his contest last season, which only scored three goals in the eight games he played.
Like Messi, a Ronaldo his scoring performance has plummeted in the Champions Leaguand. The Portuguese, since he left the Real Madrid in 2018 with its last Orejona under his arm and 15 goals in 13 games, he has not reawakened his whirlwind in the area, his killer gene that gave him such good results dressed in white.
Since he’s at Juventus. Cristiano has achieved 14 goals in three seasons, in a total of 23 games. He made six in nine games the year of his debut with the bianconeri. The following season he achieved only four in eight games and the latter have returned to four goals, although in only six duels. The average that both players are accustomed to in domestic tournaments, in national leagues and their regularity, has been drastically reduced in the Champions League in recent years. The Portuguese’s time in Europe seems to be wasting away, as his journey as a target has already been consumed …
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