Argentine star Lionel Messi has outperformed his Portuguese rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, in direct free kicks during the past ten years.
After the Barcelona star, who won the gold crown with six times, outperformed Juventus (5 times), he again outperformed in the field of direct shots, in which Ronaldo declined a lot since joining the Juve.
Messi topped the ranking issued by the network "Opta" for the ten best players in the scoring from the direct free goals in the five major leagues, during the past decade he scored 34 goals compared to 20 goals for Ronaldo, who finished second.
34 - Lionel Messi scored 34 direct free-kick goals this decade in league competition. This tally was 14 more than any other player within the top 5 European leagues in the 2010s. Specialist. # Opta2010s pic.twitter.com/ZdPINkS0aK - OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 31, 2019 |
Juventus Miralem Pjanic, the Bosnian player, ranked 16th with 16 goals.
It is reported that the five major leagues are: the English Premier League, Spanish, Italian, French and German.
On this day in 2008 # Lionel Messi scored his first goal from a hard kicks goal @fcbarcelona_ara shirt, and has not stopped doing it since! 🔥👀 |
Messi #Messi 2019 🔝🔝 # LaLigaSantander pic.twitter.com/1iUMVcYpFz - LaLiga (@LaLigaArab) December 31, 2019 |
After the end of 2019 |
Scientists in the Department of Physics at the University of Barcelona confirmed that Messi relies on the physical phenomenon of Magnus to hit fixed kicks! Which depends on the rotation of the body (the ball) and the force generated by the rotation as Messi places more pressure on the lower part of the ball, which results in the ball wrapping strongly and changing its course sharply. pic.twitter.com/JxYxpo6Pbm - Haytham Al-Jhouri / # Sohar (@ sohar1990) April 3, 2019 |
More than 10 years ago, Messi was closely following how Felicia's hit kicks from Riquelme! |