Brilliant individual player, however his team work sucks.
If I was to chose between him or Lionel Messi for instance, I'd take Messi in a flash! What I don't like about Ronaldo is his unintelligence in football. I think he relys too much on his natural instinct rather than trying to use his head and create something out of nothing.
He's more of a goal poacher this season. He's improved on that aswell as scoring from set pieces but his build up play is not all that impressive. He's not a threat to the opposition everytime he gets the ball but if you watch someone like Ronaldinho two years ago or Messi now, as soon as they get the ball they create something out of nothing by using so much intelligence and natural ability.
Ronaldo has a habit of running 20 yards up the field with the ball, he'll stop running to do some step overs and then he'll pass the ball straight back to one of his team mates. A truely great player wouldn't do this, a great player would run 20 yards up the field and beat his man or whoever is in his way. Ronaldo can't use skill while running, other players like Messi or Ronaldinho can!
Ronaldo might be the on form player in Europe right now, but that's because Kaka, Ronaldinho, Eto'o & Messi have had poor seasons by their own standards so Cristiano Ronaldo will take a hollow victory! But watch him play, there are much better footballers out there than Cristiano Ronaldo and anyone who says otherwise needs their heads checking!
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