Cristiano Ronaldo Scored Perfect Hat-Trick, Lionel Messi Countered By Scoring Four

All, Soccer, Video Ty Duffy January 28th. 2013, 11:35am

Cristiano Ronaldo is cursed. The Portuguese may be one of the five to ten best soccer players of all-time. He is playing against the best, in the same league for a rival club. Ronaldo scored a “perfect hat trick” within 10 minutes on Saturday, scoring with his left foot, his head and his right foot on a penalty. He held the headlines for a few hours, until Messi scored four against Osasuna.

Through 21 matches, Barcelona has a +47 goal difference, has dropped five points and holds an 11-point lead at the top, 15 points ahead of Real Madrid.

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35 Responses to “Cristiano Ronaldo Scored Perfect Hat-Trick, Lionel Messi Countered By Scoring Four”

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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Paul Lambert just got the dreaded vote of confidence, not sure I watch enough soccer to know what that means, though.
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Der Kaiser Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 11:44 AM
Through 21 matches, Barcelona has a +47 goal difference, has dropped five points and holds an 11-point lead at the top, 15 points ahead of Real Madrid.
La Liga is a fucking joke. Even NBA has more parity than that league.
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geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate! Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 11:51 AM
I like how the Osasuna keeper falls down trying to anticipate Messi on the first goal. Messi didn’t even have to make a move or anything.
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MP Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Madrid hiting top gear at at terrible time for United. Will probably win their UCL tie 6-1.
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BFFredo Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:02 PM
He’s recognized as one of the best players. He’s rich as hell. He nails supermodels every day of the week.
Somehow I think he’ll be fine.
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kazzythekid Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:02 PM
La Liga is a fucking joke.
Through 19 matches, Munich has a +41 goal differential, and holds an 11-point lead at the top. Bundesliga is a fucking joke!
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Der Kaiser Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Through 19 matches, Munich has a +41 goal differential, and holds an 11-point lead at the top. Bundesliga is a fucking joke!
Nice try. Please come talk to me when La Liga has had 5 champions in 10 year period like Bundesliga. Or when 80% of the league isn’t fucking bankrupt or damn near bankrupt.
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kazzythekid Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Munich has won 5 of the last 10 Bundesliga titles.
Barcelona has won 5 of the last 10 La Liga titles.
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sctrojans Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Anyone catch that Liverpool game yesterday? Sturridge played one of the worst games I’ve seen from a player on a top tier team. Haven’t seen much of him, but certainly wasn’t encouraged. Couldn’t pass, dribble, or shoot. He was fast, that’s it
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geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate! Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
I’d say the Bundesliga is ascendant. La Liga, not so much.
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Couldn’t pass, dribble, or shoot.
we can’t win at home and we can’t win on the road. i need to find another place to play
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kazzythekid Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:29 PM
I’d say the Bundesliga is ascendant. La Liga, not so much
That’s fair, but it is usually the same teams every year at the top of Bundesliga vying for the title, too. In the 5 years Munich didn’t win (in the past 10), they finished 2nd 3 times, and 3rd, and 4th once each.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Haven’t seen much of him, but certainly wasn’t encouraged. Couldn’t pass, dribble, or shoot. He was fast, that’s it
Considering it was his fourth game, and he scored three in his first three, and has played incredible well with Suarez prior, I’m not quite concerned by what you think.
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Der Kaiser Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Munich has won 5 of the last 10 Bundesliga titles.
Barcelona has won 5 of the last 10 La Liga titles.
We’re talking overall competitiveness of the league. Bayern is the 800 pound gorilla of Germany. No way to talk around that. But other teams have legit chance to compete against them. You have Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain and everyone else is in completely different league. But more than the present, it’s the future that is depressing. With no collective bargaining, real and barca continues to put distance between themselves and their competition.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:35 PM
More concerned by the fact that Rodgers’s inability to use Robinson and Coates has left them completely lacking meaningful minutes and then you send them in against a physical team and expect it to work, and more concerning still is that anyone would think a two man midfield would work against a League One side, that’s fucking moronic.
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sctrojans Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Considering it was his fourth game, and he scored three in his first three, and has played incredible well with Suarez prior, I’m not quite concerned by what you think.
I have no opinion. What I said was fact. Hadn’t seen his first three games, but he was astoundingly bad yesterday. He stood out among an otherwise awful Liverpool performance
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Der Kaiser Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Moleman, are you still president of the Andy Carroll fan club?
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kazzythekid Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
You have Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain and everyone else is in completely different league.
But yet, Atletico Madrid is 4 points ahead of Real. The competitiveness overall is may be slightly in favor of Bundesliga, but not by much.
There are a bunch of crap German teams, just like there are crap Spanish teams. (SpVgg Greuther Furth has a -22 goal differential through 19 games!)
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Moleman, are you still president of the Andy Carroll fan club?
Nope, would never fit in the system Rodgers plays. I think he will end up thriving at West Ham when he can stay healthy though, perfectly set up for him there.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:40 PM
But yet, Atletico Madrid is 4 points ahead of Real. The competitiveness overall is may be slightly in favor of Bundesliga, but not by much.
Falcao has 60% of their goals this season. Once he is gone this summer, they’re done.
Real have been their own worst enemy this year, I would be shocked if they don’t finish ten points ahead of Atleti
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MP Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Sturridge was one of about 9-10 of the 14 Liverpool players that were real poor in that game. Tough to single him out.
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:41 PM
anyone here been to an EPL match abroad? me and my grandpa went to see plymouth argyle play in the 70s in plymouth, but they may not have been first division
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Der Kaiser Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Bayern is always up there. But you have different teams making up top 4 pretty much each year. Congratulations to Atletico Madrid. I’m sure they’ll be able to sustain their success.
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kazzythekid Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Falcao has 60% of their goals this season. Once he is gone this summer, they’re done.
I wonder who snags him. Read that Pep is going to be given mad cash to spend as he chooses, with Suarez and Falcao his top targets. No chance Suarez leaves Anfield though.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/428625/20130128/pep-guardiola-fc-bayern-liverpool-luis-suarez.htm
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Der Kaiser Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Who’s winning the titles for next 15 years? I get Real and Barca, you get rest of the league. Who’s taking the bet?
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:47 PM
Bayern have to do what they do in a world that doesn’t allow for them to spend the money that the teams with no real financial rules to follow can make. Paying what they paid for Javi Martinez was necessary to beat City to his signature because he will be a key player for them for a decade. But they paid less for Ribery and Robben than Barca paid for Alexis Fucking Sanchez, that is shrewd business.
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sctrojans Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:47 PM
I wonder who snags him.
Seems like a very Chelsea move. City?
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Falcao will end up at Real. He will hold for that move and they will need the money and Real will pay whatever they have to.
And if he does end up at City, it means Aguero will be on the way to Real.
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heldover Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:55 PM
SOCCER FIGHT!!!!!
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HuskerDawg Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 1:44 PM
La Liga is a weak league provided you take out the two best teams who happen to be the two best teams in the world.
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Der Kaiser Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 1:59 PM
La Liga is a weak league provided you take out the two best teams who happen to be the two best teams in the world.
Care to explain how those two teams became the best teams in the world?
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 2:07 PM
You could surround Batman and Green Lantern with eighteen crippled retards and that wouldn’t mean the Justice League was awesome.
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TrinityPills Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 2:37 PM
Care to explain how those two teams became the best teams in the world?
Unfairly. Real is treated as a nonprofit company in Spain which creates a huge advantage for them on the field. Barca had to build their team without that advantage but were able to turn success into a mountain of goodwill with banks. As of April 2012, both teams were operating with well over half a billion in debt. This type of debt isn’t afforded to the smaller teams in Spain, in part, because Real and Barca earn a disproportionate amount of the larges source of revenue for the league (TV money) season in and season out.
Here is a decent article on how debt (or more importantly, credit) has helped the two squads stay ahead of everyone else:
http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2012/04/truth-about-debt-at-barcelona-and-real.html
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Der Kaiser Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Thank you, trinitiphil. La liga is a perfect example of what happens when you put short term gain over long term sustainability.
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dikembemutomballs Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 3:04 PM
No love for the geriatric league? AKA Serie A? Seems to be you have 35+ or a talent like Balotelli or El Sharrawy the rest of the world is just waiting to pluck.