The "The Best" award was awarded yesterday, and Messi finished third despite clearly being better than his opponent Ronaldo in the 2019/20 season. This just goes to show how high the standards are for Messi, and I'll show it below.
As it can be seen here, comparing them in their respective leagues and in reference to the other players in the other 4 top leagues, Messi clearly surpasses CR7 in everything except goals (and even then he beats him non-penalty wise), which leaves us with doubts as to how he got ahead in the award.
Let's not forget that Messi is doing it in a considerably more defensively intense league as well, according to the UtdArena's metric, in addition to data not posted such as passes to the last third of the pitch, passes to the penalty area, progressive passes, touches, nutmegs, progressive carrying distance, fouls received, among many others, and Messi wins in all of those categories of course.
There's also the Champions League, where Messi was easily clear of Ronaldo, with one less goal but with more assists, goals generated, key passes, throughballs, dribbles, MoTM per game and an average rating of 8.37 to 7.26, having played against considerably harder opponents in the tournament as well.
Despite all this, despite being clearly better, Ronaldo came out second instead of Messi, which is a disgrace, but it only shows the greatness of Messi, who despite having everything going for him, he was defeated because Ronaldo scored more goals and won more trophies, a shame, but that's what happens when you're so good that the standards for you are unreasonably high.
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