Kick Messi out of the country and replace with Cristiano....

[ArbitraryWater]

Portugal's team was bad, but Ronaldo played at their level, when he should have raised his own to compensate. He choked, and badly.

That's the thing, when everyone else is bad, its hard to compensate..

This isnt basketball where the best player can get his shot off every time he wants to.

[ArbitraryWater]

CR7 wouldn't have probably done better. He also has a history of choking.

At least Messi has led his team farther than CR7 has ever had.

Ronaldo has a history of choking? The guy with the most champions league semifinal goals ever and the single cl season goal record?

[B-hoop]

That's the thing, when everyone else is bad, its hard to compensate..

This isnt basketball where the best player can get his shot off every time he wants to.

There are many examples of this happening in football, you have a lot of teams that are worse winning against teams that are better, or do you think Costa Rica is better than Uruguay, England and Italy?

Maradona took a mediocre Argentina team in 1986 to win the World Cup, he scored a goal where he literally dribbled from the midfield until he scored the goal, dribbling around 5-6 players.

Garrinha and Pel

[Nowitness]

Maybe. You could easily say replace Ronaldo with Messi and do Portugal still lose.... in the group stage.

[ThePhantomCreep]

Germany = the 2014 Spurs of the World Cup

Replace Messi with anybody and Germany would still win.

You're overeating germany's dominance in this final.

[b1imtf]

Maybe. You could easily say replace Ronaldo with Messi and do Portugal still lose.... in the group stage.

Yes, we were too shit to pass. The same problems would exist.

[That_Admiral]

I don't know why you're talking shit about Messi, it seems you didn't watch the game. Messi played well, unfortunately he didn't make the shots he needed to and the better team one.
And in the case of cristiano ronaldo; he could not have performed at this level (slightly due to his injury & also from the results seen in this wc) and many soccer fans know this

[CelticBaller]

Ronaldo lmao

[alenleomessi]

replace messi with any player in the history and arg wouldnt win the tourney convincingly.. maybe with some luck.. extra times.. penalties.. pretty much similar to what argentina were doing..
but there is so much you can do with mediocre players around you..

[RagaZ]

replace messi with any player in the history and arg wouldnt win the tourney convincingly.. maybe with some luck.. extra times.. penalties.. pretty much similar to what argentina were doing..
but there is so much you can do with mediocre players around you..

Ronaldo is a bigger threat. Even when he was sh*t against Germany in the first match he still had 3-4 great chances.

How many chances did Messi have in the whole Knock out stage? 1 or 2?

[brownmamba00]

I don't know why peeps keep saying Cris choked...dude was playing on 1 knee and his team is just awful.

Give him aguero di maria mascherano and he atleast makes the semis on that 1 knee and I ain't even a Cristiano fan tbh