Think the excitement got to you a bit too much, Van Persie is an excellent finisher, but nowhere near Ronaldo or Messi in terms of overall ability. Regardless of where Messi or Ronaldo are on the pitch, they have the ability to make even the best defenders look amateur and score brilliant goals.
Van Persie doesn't have the same effect when he is on the ball, he has a brilliant eye for goal yes, but can he get the ball on the half way line and blitz world class defences apart.. Sadly not.
Think the excitement got to you a bit too much, Van Persie is an excellent finisher, but nowhere near Ronaldo or Messi in terms of overall ability. Regardless of where Messi or Ronaldo are on the pitch, they have the ability to make even the best defenders look amateur and score brilliant goals.
Van Persie doesn't have the same effect when he is on the ball, he has a brilliant eye for goal yes, but can he get the ball on the half way line and blitz world class defences apart.. Sadly not.
That's because he's got no legs lol.
Messi's style of play is generally, to take players on with the ball glued to his feet, and then a combition of crazy good dribbling, bouncing off defenders and his twisting and turning unbalancing them, gets him through on goal, which he then usually tucks away mostly through precise finishes around/over the keeper. He scores the odd header or peach from just outside the box. With him it's all about control at speed, which is why people love watching him.
Ronaldo is more brute force and uses his acceleration and first touch to get himself in space and away from players, also good at holding players off, and then his goals tend to be more of a mix of right/left/headers/rockets from distance (and free kicks, but less this year). He really doesn't go through defences like Messi, he tends find ways around them. They're quite different players. Ronaldo is fun to watch because he'll charge down the flanks, do some elaborate flick to another player then score a bullet from an improbable distance.
In terms of what they have in common other than the scoring and watchability factor is the acceleration, speed and ability to find/make space. RVP has no speed or acceleration and isn't anywhere near the 'license to roam' free player who can do what he wants, he's more reliant on getting himself in good positions to do his thing, so for that reason he's more of a one-trick pony (albeit a world class one). His control on the ball is out of this world, it's just he's not a leggy run-at-players player so obviously fares unfavourably compared to both of them. His goals have been quite a good mixture of curlers/volleys/tap ins/headers/free kicks/distance/tight angle. He has beaten the odd defender (see goals against Blackburn, Inter etc), but if comparing Ronaldo/Messi is like apples/oranges, then Van Persie is a strawberry.
To be compared truly IMO, he'd need to do what he's done this last year every year, which is why those two occupy the lofty positions they do. If he'd have not been crocked for so much of so many seasons, perhaps he would be, but it's just speculation.
