Join Chris Wittyngham & Nico Cantor for a brand new way of consuming the beautiful game with Numbers Don’t Lie from Sofascore. On this episode, the crew are taking a look at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, comparing two of the games living legends, Lionel Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo. The team take a look at Argentina & Portugal’s form heading into the tournament, discussing their group stage matches and predicting which of the two will have the biggest impact.
0:00 Lionel Messi is MLS CHAMP
1:39 Carlos Vela vs. Lionel Messi
2:42 Ronaldo vs. Messi since Inter Miami debut
3:57 Who will have the bigger IMPACT?
5:35 38 year olds in the World Cup
6:32 Messi for Argentina since 2022
8:01 Ronaldo for Portugal since 2022
10:09 Final Thoughts
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Goals DOESN'T define greatness or best.player
Goals will win you matches, won matches win you trophies.
How come Ronaldo has LESS trophies despite his tons of goals?
Less Golden Shoe despite his tons of goals?
Trophies and awards are the recognition of a player's being the best, the greatest,
Man of the Match, Player of the Tournament also define a player's IMPACT of the game
Messi is miles miles better than Ronaldo.
No debate.
Debate is generated by CR and his fans to make him RELEVANT.
Fact
Wish neymar wins over this flop penaldog
Leonard Karl top rookie player in the world
He keeps on scoring for Bayern he's going to be the primary goal scorer for the German team
These two old guys are going to find out what that young kid can do
The big surprise nobody's talking about is Leonard Karl for Germany he's proving it in the champions League along with the bundesliga his skill set for that age is unparalleled
Portugal team hate CR7 while Argentina is a team of brothers & Messi is their elder bro…CR7 ego finally got the best of him. If Portugal wins WC it'll be because they wanted to give Ronaldo a consolation prize.
Xabi Alonso can't handle the egos in this team. If they wanna go back to their groove Madrid needs someone who doesn't care what anyone says and puts everyone in their place without fear of repercussions from Florentino. Mourinho or Zidane might be the right characters.
Messi will have more impact in the World Cup than Ronaldo
If Ronaldo can win the Saudi League and win World Cup next year, I have him being the GOAT 🐐
If Messi wants, messi is going to play. But this is not in the case of cristiano, we have seen what happened at 2022 worldcup, he was completely vanished from the main squad bcz he didn't have any impact. Messi is messi, he will contribute in hundreds of different ways for argentina whilst ronaldo can only contribute in-terms of goal
90 goals, 39 pens vs 77 goals, 4 pens?
❤cr7
Is the 48th trophy
The way Vancouver played should tell you everything about the MLS
CR7 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I think messi winning the last WC and CR7 is going to win this one, to messi may not be there playing are all scripted by FIFA just to have a debate of "CR7 won when messi was not active" as the debate continues for generations. Last WC the coca-cola ad had argentina winning the WC as many people may have missed that part at the end of the commercial. Pay attention people. It's script.
Out of those assist how many was hockey style assist?
Messi's biggest "advantage" is that he grow up and never left the best team in history, a team that never had less than 60% possession, aka Barcelona. People mix up Barça and Argentina's accomplishments to surpass one man with tendinosis since 2014, Cristiano Ronaldo. (if Cr7 was from Costa Rica or Messi from Jamaica? They couldn't be goats because world cup rights?…stupid..but here are some of CR7's Portuguese teammates with worst coachs ever between 2006 and 2016: Miguel Veloso, Ricardo, Raúl Mereiles, Bruno Alves, Hugo Almeda…Coach Paulo Bento, Carlos queiroz, Fernando Santos..) Regarding the fans, the most noticeable thing is that Messi's fans are almost always aggressive and almost all of them have an excessive hatred and disrespect for the Portuguese player. For example, I almost never see Cristiano Ronaldo fans polluting Messi's videos and disrespecting a player they admire too.
Cannot use ridiculous where MLS is concern. Come on😂😂
Heyy change the tittle "they" to "he", yeah i mean cristiano 😂 messi got 1 trophy world cup. Dont push him self bruh. Its not enough? 😂😂
Man who cares. Neither will win World Cup in 2026
This debate died when Messi got the World Cup.
Portugal can absolutely win the World Cup, and they absolutely could have won the previous World Cup, and the Euros. Portugal have had a better squad of players than Argentina for years, and they currently do, as well.
But you know how Portugal absolutely cannot win the World Cup though?
If CR7 is their best player.
MLS is a semi pro league Saudi league is way better and harder to perform
This is made up contest. There has never been one.
No debate. Messi already achieved it. The question is: can Messi repeat it?
There is no debat😂e
7:30 wdym dude. Thats like comparing a player who played 2 games and scored 2 goals to a player who played 34 games and scored 30 goals 😂 wtf kind of conclusion is that from those numbers
Why are people still afraid of telling the truth 😂, if you watch ronaldo youd probably be sleeping despite him scoring a hattrick 😂
Messi no doubt. But can't compare either. It's like the big three in tennis. Djokovic without a doubt but hard to compare. They are all really good haha. How about we throw the comparing stick away