Piers Morgan has continued to label Cristiano Ronaldo the best footballer of all time regardless of Lionel Messi’s sensational performances for Argentina, insisting that ‘one World Cup doesn’t a GOAT make.’
Messi delivered yet one more breathtaking show throughout Argentina’s 3-0 win towards Croatia on Tuesday night time, firing his nation into Sunday’s closing and one match away from World Cup glory.
Rolling again the years with a masterful efficiency, the 35-year-old rocketed his first-half penalty previous spot-kick specialist Dominik Livakovic earlier than wondrously helping Julian Alvarez’s second purpose with a slaloming run past highly-rated teen Josko Gvardiol.
Lionel Messi was sensational as Argentina beat Croatia 3-0 to achieve the ultimate of the World Cup
The 35-year-old scored from the spot earlier than later offering a surprising help for Julian Alvarez
As followers took to social media in droves to model Messi as one of the best ever footballer, Morgan insisted Ronaldo was nonetheless the best of all time and defended his stance in an interview with talkSPORT on Wednesday.
Morgan stated: ‘I believed Messi was completely sensational towards Croatia. He is one of many best gamers to ever play the sport. The controversy is, although, is he the best?
‘On that I’ll at all times put up a really passionate and fairly forensic defence of Ronaldo. I believe he deserves that title.
‘One World Cup doesn’t a GOAT make. Messi hasn’t even gained it but!
However Piers Morgan is adamant that Cristiano Ronaldo continues to be the best footballer of all time
Ronaldo carried out an explosive interview with Morgan final month, criticising his outdated membership Man United and former boss Erik ten Hag
‘Once you have a look at the stats between Ronaldo and Messi, it is vital to recollect Ronaldo is 2 years’ older.
‘It is also vital to keep in mind that, not like Messi who stayed in his Barcelona consolation blanket for 17 years, Ronaldo has gained league titles in 4 totally different international locations, together with the three best leagues on this planet.
‘He is taken himself out of consolation zones – he may have stayed at Actual Madrid for many of his profession if he needed to, however he is intentionally taken himself into new leagues and new challenges.
‘Whereas Messi, he is solely ever achieved it for Barcelona, and there throughout him the whole time had been the world’s best gamers. Ronaldo has typically needed to lead that line just about on his personal.’
Following Messi’s rampant show on Tuesday, Gary Lineker requested on Twitter: ‘Is there nonetheless a debate? Asking for a goat.’
Moments later, the Speak TV host merely tweeted in reply: ‘There is not. It is Ronaldo.’
One side of the World Cup that has regularly irked Morgan is the persistent ‘fan-boying’ of Messi all through the event.
The Portuguese ahead gained 4 Champions League trophies throughout his time at Actual Madrid
‘I have been watching a number of the Messi fan-boying and fan-girling through the World Cup, and I have been laughing,’ Morgan continued to inform talkSPORT.
‘OK, he is having an excellent World Cup, nevertheless it’s the primary one he is turned up for!
‘Should you keep at a group like Barcelona for almost all of your profession and then you definitely go to PSG and an easy league just like the French Ligue 1, are you actually a greater participant over that interval than anyone who has persistently gained titles in three of probably the most aggressive leagues there are? I am undecided.
‘I really like this debate as a result of it winds folks up, however the actuality is they’re two of the three best ever.
The 37-year-old tearfully crashed out of the World Cup after struggling a 1-0 defeat by Morocco
‘Diego Maradona, to me, is the best Argentine to ever play the sport – Messi does not even get that GOAT title.
‘Should you have a look at profession targets, Champions League targets, Ronaldo is approach forward. He is higher within the air, he is higher with each ft, albeit Messi has a left-foot wand.
‘I can rack up a pretty big sheet of info which I believe results in the conclusion that not solely is Ronaldo the GOAT, however Messi is simply the second greatest GOAT from Argentina!
‘And I believe France are going to win the World Cup and break Messi’s coronary heart, anyway!
Argentina legend Diego Maradona can be thought of one of many best footballers of all time
Morgan additionally revealed that Ronaldo as soon as advised him Messi was one of the best participant he had ever seen reside – however solely as a result of it was not possible to look at himself.
The tv host defined: ‘I stated to him, “Who’s one of the best participant you’ve ever seen?”
‘He stated, “Messi, however you’re asking the incorrect query, you’re not asking me who’s one of the best participant”, as a result of, in fact, he has by no means seen himself play reside.’
In a separate response to a query raised by Jeff Stelling on Twitter, Morgan claimed that Brazil legend Ronaldo may even rank above Messi within the best of all time debate.
Jamie Carragher (left) and Gary Lineker (proper) each insist that Messi is the best of all time
Morgan claimed that Messi is behind Maradona and Brazil icon Ronaldo within the GOAT debate
‘I believe Cristiano Ronaldo’s one of the best ever, Maradona second, Messi third (presumably fourth really, behind R9),’ he proposed on social media.
Morgan, who has been a long-term admirer of the Portuguese famous person, carried out an explosive interview with Ronaldo final month, which led to the 37-year-old being axed by Manchester United.
In the course of the tell-all dialog, Ronaldo comprehensively criticised his former membership having fallen down the pecking order below new boss Erik ten Hag.
The ahead lambasted the shortage of change in Manchester United’s infrastructure since his first departure in 2009, slammed Ten Hag’s ways and strategies and referred to former team-mate Wayne Rooney as a ‘rat’.
As Ronaldo’s group prepares to seek out the star free agent a brand new dwelling in January, Messi is one step nearer to greedy the best prize soccer has to supply.
Striker Ronaldo, typically labelled R9, marshalled Brazil to World Cup glory in each 1994 and 2002
