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hulk616:
apologies accepted
It is good that you finally accept that Ronaldo is better than Messi. So next time, look at our facts before insulting us.

Logic over emotions

ddippset:
The 10 greatest goals in Champions League history
Cristiano Ronaldo’s overhead kick took the world’s breath away on Tuesday evening but how does it rank in Champions League history?
Well, we don’t know.
Goals are notoriously hard to rank because everyone has different tastes – perfect team play, spectacular individual skill, solo efforts?
Does the goal have to be as unique as possible? That certainly helps.
And the significance? It’s a lot harder to remember group stage goals and scoring when your side is already four goals up is not quite the same but those goals deserve some consideration, even if the weighting works against them.
We’ve done our best to take all of the above into account so, without further ado, here are our 10 best goals in Champions League history.
Here goes nothing…


10: Frank Lampard v Barcelona
We can’t think of another goal like this, not on this stage. A forgotten moment of genius and a deft piece of skill.
And yes, he meant it.
https://twitter.com/andriu_rd/status/973965185131171840


9: Claudio López v PSV Eindhoven
Volleys are hard and they look great but it feels like there’s so often luck involved, an element of hit and hope.
That wasn’t the case here – López swivelled and simultaneously controlled and smashed the ball all in one touch. All the more better having come from a long pass.
#OnThisDay in 1999, Claudio Lopez scored this fantastic goal for @valenciacf_en against PSV in the Champions League. Wonderful stuff! pic.twitter.com/CP5Nya5EK9
— Hypergoals (@hypergoals) September 21, 2017


8: Juninho v Bayern Munich
If we were going to include a free-kick (and we were always going to) it had to be one from Juninho.
The master of the dead ball hit his best ever against Bayern Munich and, for bonus points, sent a bewildered Oliver Kahn crashing into his post.


7: Cristiano Ronaldo v Ajax
Team goals often get overlooked. They aren’t spectacular enough for some people, we guess. Those people are wrong.
Ronaldo has scored every type of goal imaginable but it’s unfairly forgotten that Mourinho’s Madrid was a breathtaking counter-attacking machine.
This was them at their very best: swift, destructive, elegant, unstoppable.


6: Lionel Messi v Bayern Munich
Jérôme Boateng was the best defender in the world at the time, Manuel Neuer the best goalkeeper and Pep Guardiola was considered the best coach as he returned to Camp Nou.
Lionel Messi made all three of them look absolutely ridiculous.
You can almost hear someone in the distance shout ‘TIMBER!’ as the Argentine sends Boateng spinning before he chips Neuer with his ‘weak’ foot.


5: Thierry Henry v Real Madrid
The Bernabéu has seen some unbelievable players and even more unbelievable goals but this still seemed to take them by surprise.
Perhaps the most impressive thing is that four players actually get close to Henry but it looks like nobody does. His long stride takes him away from one, two, three Galácticos and he strikes just as a young Sergio Ramos arrives.
For a man who specialised in them, this was probably the best solo goal of his career.


4: Dejan Stanković v Schalke
Oh, a halfway line volley? That’s cool.
Yeah it’s cool and it’s even cooler when it comes at San Siro within the opening minute of a Champions League game.
Poor Manuel Neuer couldn’t believe his luck.
https://twitter.com/TitanicGoals/status/759803189663150081
3: Cristiano Ronaldo v Juventus
Maybe the best goal of Ronaldo’s 649 career goals to date. Yes, really.
The five metre dash to reach it. The seven foot leap. The connection while almost upside down and still moving backwards in midair. Perfectly into the corner.
All around the stadium, Juventus fans stood up to applaud. That says it all.



2: Zinedine Zidane v Bayer Leverkusen
A scorer in two World Cup finals, Zidane was a man for the occasion. He lived up to it once again in the 2002 Champions League final.
Roberto Carlos’ cross seems to spend an age in the air as Zidane sets himself, waiting for it to drop.
The most striking thing is just how high the Frenchman gets his leg as he makes contact with the ball.

For many it’s the greatest goal ever scored in European football, but…


1: Lionel Messi v Real Madrid
At the height of Pep Guardiola’s rivalry with José Mourinho, his greatest pupil secured a place in history. Sometimes you can just sense something special is unravelling right before you and this goal was exactly that.
Like he usually does, Sergio Busquets saw it before the rest of us, stopping the ball dead before allowing Messi to do the rest.
The two biggest and best clubs in the world, the most competitive rivalry in the world, was decided within the blink of an eye.

pu7pl3:
Lookat this guy I was trying to be fair on....alright then, let's talk about Ronaldo for Portugal in finals...who has a winners medal?

pu7pl3:
[s][/s]

Another silly copy and paste...

ddippset:
Are we talking about a winner's medal or analysing their performances in finals?

ddippset:
This is serious..

Am I supposed to bring up an article written by me?

This all shows how dubious you are.

There are other sites that rank differently, who did you choose this one

and I'm the dubious one

hulk616:
what did I do?
And what is the record?

FirstbornWds:
Lol. We didn't mean to awaken you sir.

FirstbornWds:
We don't have any defenders sir.

But we do have more Ballon D'or holders than the entire laliga teams put together.

That's how I plead

pu7pl3:
The performance of the best player in any team determines if he and his teammates gets a medal or not..

If he is shiit --- no medal

If he is sublime and influential--- MEDAL

Simple as ABC

pu7pl3:
2014 our worst player was Khedira..Ronaldo scored and we won
2016 he scored too and we won
2017 he scored 2 sweet goals that I'm sure has been forever embedded in your memory
2018 the worst player on the pitch was Karius... Ronaldo's presence helped produce one of the best goals in UCL history

Now where was Messi in all the 4 finals Argentina played?

Melvyn11:
It's good to see you accepted your L amicably. Touche

TLona1:
Choi! See lies

2014 be scored a penalty when the game was already sealed and dusted having given a disaster class performance


2016 he did not score any goal in the whole 180 minutes.. Stop lying.

2018, he was the worst Madrid player on the pitch and the second worst player after Karius. He was lurking inside Trent's pocket

Mtchew absolute reaching I've already given you documented facts

answer my own question...the ball Messi kicked out of the stadium in the Copa America final is still floating in space...why?

FirstbornWds:
Bwahaha.... Have you accepted yours?

We've got more Ballon D'or titles than the entire la Liga.

Do you wish to debate that?

FirstbornWds:
Can everyone see this? This is the confirmation that out dear purple is imbalanced, football-wise( I wouldn't know about real life instances though).

What he, Purple, is trying to tell us is that great players don't have their bad days when they play awfully bad and the teammates would have to step up.

Jesus, Ddippset... We've wasted time responding to confirmed slowpoke and we actually thought we were arguing. Wouldn't it be justified if I say this guy is just clowning around?

I mean,

Ronald didn't even play in the Euro 2016 final against France yet our dear slowpoke wants us to believe he was sublime and influential to the win.

How's Hulk616 not better than this guy? Even the other guy with a matric number will gladly surrender his heavyweight championship in stupidity to you.

What's this nonsense?

Melvyn11:
I didn't ask for the bold. I guess you also have more champions league and la liga titles than Madrid as well .

FirstbornWds:
Can everyone see this? This is the confirmation that out dear purple is imbalanced, football-wise( I wouldn't know about real life instances though).

What he, Purple, is trying to tell us is that great players don't have their bad days when they play awfully bad and the teammates would have to step up.

Jesus, Ddippset... We've wasted time responding to confirmed slowpoke and we actually thought we were arguing. Wouldn't it be justified if I say this guy is just clowning around?

I mean,

Ronald didn't even play in the Euro 2016 final against France yet our dear slowpoke wants us to believe he was sublime and influential to the win.

How's Hulk616 not better than this guy? Even the other guy with a matric number will gladly surrender his heavyweight championship in stupidity to you.

What's this nonsense?

pu7pl3:
When I insult you back now you will start crying in long epistles...

Do you even know what being influential means? Are you capable of holding your own in this conversation?

hulk616:
ok i know why my name was called.

FirstbornWds:
Lol. The bone of contention is Ballon d'Or. Not league titles. But as expected from Madridistas, you'll look for an avenue to showcase your clowning skill.

FirstbornWds:
Lol. I expected you to have replied the "bitter truth" with insults already. I'm disappointed by you for once.

Please, can you define what your "influential" mean?

Let me use your own words/answer to dismantle your points.

hulk616:
ok i know why my name was called.

pu7pl3:
when a Cule doesn't know what influential means... a dirty Uefalona fan like you...you should be locked up in Arkham

pu7pl3:
Il tell you the truth cos we go way back, not just on here

These dirty Cules are using you as the S.I. unit to measure how dumb they are

FirstbornWds:
Can everyone see this? This is the confirmation that out dear purple is imbalanced, football-wise( I wouldn't know about real life instances though).

What he, Purple, is trying to tell us is that great players don't have their bad days when they play awfully bad and the teammates would have to step up.

Jesus, Ddippset... We've wasted time responding to confirmed slowpoke and we actually thought we were arguing. Wouldn't it be justified if I say this guy is just clowning around?

I mean,

Ronald didn't even play in the Euro 2016 final against France yet our dear slowpoke wants us to believe he was sublime and influential to the win.

How's Hulk616 not better than this guy? Even the other guy with a matric number will gladly surrender his heavyweight championship in stupidity to you.

What's this nonsense?

FirstbornWds:
Are you really this daft? Or are you trying to showcase stupidity for likes and shares?


I said,


Can you PLEASE define what your "influential" means in terms of the related argument context?


Is it really hard to comprehend?

Simply define it. If you're right, we move on, if not, then take to correction.

smh

Your Brain power is X 0 = 0

Your ability to never understand stuff is till

pu7pl3:
Il tell you the truth cos we go way back, not just on here

These dirty Cules are using you as the S.I. unit to measure how dumb they I am

Sommyroy10:
Corrected

pu7pl3:
This one has just been trying by all means to get my attention