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Cristiano and Messi, in the crash between the Barcelona and the Juventus

ICONIC IMAGE

Defensive way: the theft of Cristiano to Messi near of the area of Buffon

Published:9/12/2020 - 14:49h

Updated:9/12/2020 - 14:50h

During the duel between the Barcelona and the Juventus, a particular situation presented between Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, afterwards that the luso defended near of his area

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The defeat of the FC Barcelona in front of the Juventus, by 0-3. It left some quite iconic and painful images. Further of the poor performance that showed the team directed by Ronald Koeman, which cost him the victory in the party, the first square of the group and a record of 38 parties without losing enel Camp Nou, in the actions of the game also there were situations stood out.

One of these images was the one of Cristiano Ronaldo, emblem of the Italian team and of the football in general, going down to defend and stealing him the balloon at all less than to Lionel Messi, his rival maximum during the last years, in which it has been one of the hardest contentions of the history of the football. The fact sucedió to the edge of the area, when the Argentinian had to encarar to generate danger and, later, the Portuguese appeared to take advantage of the distance between the barcelonista and the spherical and do with the possession of the same.

As if it treated of a metaphor of what was the deafening defeat of the culés in front of the "Vecchia Signora", this sequence meant the frustration of Lionel Messi that, by more than tried it, could not annotate or do something more for revertir the marker. Everything, in front of a Christian Ronaldo that took advantage of the opportunities offered by the penal sentenced by the referee's body to mark a doublet and leave to the Barcelona like second of the group.

Messi follows imposed in front of Ronaldo

In spite of the victory that achieved the Juventus yesterday, promoted mainly in the two goals that attained to mark, of penal, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi follows having better numbers that the Portuguese in what it has been his rivalry, showed in direct clashes. From the 2008, first time that saw the faces, both players have confronted in a total of 36 opportunities, between disputes with clubs and national selections.

Of this quantity of matches, Messi has achieved to do with the victory 16 times, whereas Cristiano has carried the duel in 11 opportunities, with four ties of by half. Of equal way, the Argentinian has marked 22 goals in matches with the two have participated, whereas the Portuguese has seen door in 21 occasions.