5 attributes in which Lionel Messi is better than Cristiano Ronaldo on FIFA 17
Football fans of the current generation are lucky to be living in an era where technology allows them to watch the superlative talents of the Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, who are probably the best players to have ever graced a football pitch.
What also sets this era of football apart is the advent of technology which allows games like FIFA 17 to come into being which enables football enthusiasts to play as their favourite players in their favourite teams. This also means the recreation of the Real Madrid-Barcelona rivalry on virtual battlegrounds; which also entails the further continuation of the eternal debate about who is the better player, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.
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On FIFA 17, at least, the Portuguese had the upper hand after the launch of the game as he was the best player in the game, rated at an overall of 94 while Messi was at 93. After the latest updates, however, Messi has taken the upper hand with a rating of 95 while Ronaldo has maintained the same rating.
Both players have their special attributes which set them apart and these shine at different points in time.
There are some areas however where one gets the better of the other and while we do not make a mistake and risk the wrath of fans by claiming that one player is the better one, in this article, we do list out those attributes where Lionel Messi just happens to destroy Cristiano Ronaldo on FIFA 17.
#1 Composure
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi seem to possess the coolest heads in world football when in on goal. There is nobody else you’d rather have one-on-one against an opposition goalkeeper than either of the two, who between them scored more than a century of goals last season.
On FIFA 17, however, there is a huge difference between the composure levels of the two. Messi has been given a game-high composure rating of 94, a ranking which he shares with German ace Philip Lahm.
Ronaldo on the other hand does not even feature in the top ten most composed players in the game with a rating of 86, which is fair given that he is prone to throwing moody fits when things do not go his way on the field and is often seen letting loose a frustrated shot from distance that leaves teammates exasperated.
Messi has always been the calmer of the pair, always seeming to have that fraction of a second more time to react than his opponent, resulting in embarrassing nutmegs or laser guided passes while Ronaldo has transformed himself into something resembling a scientist who has perfected the formula for scoring goals and accomplishing little else. Surround Messi with five defenders and he or the ball will get through, put Ronaldo through the same and it is likely that neither of the two will be able to make it.