Ronaldo or Messi: Which player influences their club's success more? - The Stats Zone
Stats show there's barely any difference. In fact, Ronaldo scores a bigger percentage of his goals when his teams are drawing or losing, but the margins are 1-2% anywhere. It's so tight that giving any sort of conclusion about how one stat pads more than the other would be ridiculous.
Maybe people are influenced by Ronaldo's obnoxious, over-the-top celebrations, I don't know.
But the actual numbers definitely don't support any serious claim how he stat pads more than Messi - in fact, it's the other way around, though by a completely insignificant margin.
(Note: these stats are from 15-16, so BEFORE Ronaldo won two more CLs, scoring a ridiculous number of goals while doing it, and putting 10 past Bayern, Atleti and Juve in 5 games in 2017)
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I realize my defending Ronaldo might come off as fanboyish, but it honestly isn't.
Like I said, Messi's the GOAT for me, but Ronaldo - instead of being treated as a #2 all-time - is treated here like a peasant who only gets trophies and individual acclaims because of stat padding and tap ins.