Head to head: Ronaldo vs. Ibrahimovic.

m88 เข้าไม่ได้ But, to be considered as top player, as one of the best, you need to perform not only for your club team, but for your national side as well.

With both national sides having it’s own talisman in their respective squad in the form of Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Sweden, and Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal the hype quickly turned towards them.Regarded as one of the best attacking players in the modern game of football, the two stars simply stole the show. It was a close match, but Portugal was marginally better and while Ronaldo has scored, it was after a great ball in from Veloso. In the second leg though, you could be forgiven for saying Ronaldo has stolen the show, as he scored the first goal of the match in the 50th minute, followed by another two goals in the course of just two minutes to silence Sweden for good.

This is why, a lot of people consider national appearances and performances more important in showing a player’s talent than club ones and this is why the most talked about meeting in the European qualifying play-off for the 2014 World Cup was Portugal versus Sweden.

So who is the world’s best footballer? Well, judging after the first leg, Joao Pereira. Of course, a good match in the Portugal shirt doesn’t make him a replacement for Ronaldo, but people tend to forget that football is a team sport, and an individual, no matter how good he is, cannot compensate for a poor performance from his teammates. Seriously now, in a match where both Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic failed to play at the level that was expected from them, Joao Pereira was outstanding. The Portuguese star went on to hit the post in the 85th minute, and while Ibrahimovic remained silent, it doesn’t mean that one player or another has decided the first leg, it means that Portugal was a bit better that Sweden and, it was rewarded with a goal.

You see, a club team, especially a big one, can surround it’s talisman with the best players in the world, making his/hers life much easier, but in the national side you have to do with what your country has to offer in terms of footballers. This was no longer a meeting between two great footballing nations in their road for Brasil 2014, this had become the battle between Ibrahimovic and Ronaldo in their quest to be the world’s best football player, and the man who will shine in this double will be just that.. Sometimes you get a good generation of teammates, sometimes you don’t.

Meetings between the superstars of the footballing world are quite a common sight in the Champions League these days, as the ‘big boys’ in the competition snatch all the important player from the ‘lesser’ teams. The Valencia player has tormented the Swedish defense with his pace and crosses from the right to the point where people started to think that Nani was actually the defender and Pereira the attacking midfielder

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