A little different from Nani ..

Just watching some of his goals/highlights at Sporting. I might be crazy to say this and its early days in his Manchester United career , but does anyone else reckon that Nani could become a better finisher than Cristiano Ronaldo , he can score goals you may not associate with Cristiano Ronaldo. One thing for sure is he is a complete different option and may serve Portugal and Man United well.

I could see him playing as a centreforward quite effectively.

he's more of a quaresma type than ronaldo...better finisher then ronaldo but less quicker

Ronaldo scores a lot of goals but he is generally quite a poor finisher (in terms of number of shots - number of goals). From the little I've seen of Nani he certainly looks like he has a good eye for goal. I'm not sure he'll ever be as effective as Ronaldo (only time will tell) but I certainly think he will be a more clinical finisher.

Ronaldo isn't actually that brilliant a finisher to be honest. He's just so good at the other areas of his game that he can tot up a nice goal tally.

Haven't seen Nani much one on one yet, so can't really comment. Seems to have a belter of a long range shot on him though

Ronaldos shooting is pretty average, but he scores lots of goals because he has a powerful shot and has a strikers instinct (he always gets into goalscoring positions).

Nanis shooting is a lot better than Ronaldos, but he isnt as good as Ronaldo at creating/getting into the goalscoring opportunities.

If they could both learn from each other, they would be spectacular duo for club and country.

I think if both Ronaldo and Nani were outside the pen box , Ronaldo will try and smack the ball past the goalie , whilst Nani may try and place it. And i agree with Rez , both different styles of play could compliment both their club and country and both could learn of each other. Nani may be a Quaresma type player than a Ronaldo type as MB says.

Not really in agreement with anything on this thread. Nani has got a better shot than Ronaldo. But Ronaldo is a far superior finisher. In a one on one i would say Ronaldo will score 7 out of 10 times. Nani i reckon 4 out of 10 times.

lrdgic

Tweedle wrote:lrdgic

Gotta catch on sometime tweedle
Also Ronaldo is far superior in the air and at least 10% of his goals are with his head

Impressive stats lrd.

Of course I'd need to see some sort of referenced evidence to verify them

Neither are very good finishers, wingers tend to score goals whilst running towards at the goal. Although it's worth mentioning Ronaldo scores a few headers everyseason, and lets not forget the FK's and PK's.

From what i've seen of Nani at Man Utd, Ronaldo is miles ahead of him in the finishing department, Nani's shot are tame and straight at the keeper. But he's adapting i suppose.

I don't expect Nani to be successful as Ronaldo in the near future.

Noone is saying Nani will become the better player or more effective , just that looking at his days at Sporting he may end up as a more clinical finisher. Just looking at ONE aspect of the game.

I don't think he will come anywhere close to being as good as CR tbh.

Finishing will have to be seen, lets not forget Tevez could have claimed that goal.

Tweedle wrote:Impressive stats lrd.

Of course I'd need to see some sort of referenced evidence to verify them

I know what i see, my opinions are not all stats based like you tweedle mr arsenal stats stats stats without actually having a clue what they mean.

Nani has a better shot on him. But one on one Ronaldo would be better for many reasons.

TM wrote:I don't think he will come anywhere close to being as good as CR tbh.

Finishing will have to be seen, lets not forget Tevez could have claimed that goal.

Wasn't talking about the goal against Spurs , more the type of goals he was scoring at Sporting , saying that at this moment in time Ronaldo is the better finisher , would Nani be able to eclipse or equal it (showed signs at Sporting)

Ronaldo has more in his locker to make him by *far* the better player , and its this that Nani could take note from both at club + international level.

btw where would you fit Quaresma in all of this ?

Raifael wrote:

TM wrote:I don't think he will come anywhere close to being as good as CR tbh.

Finishing will have to be seen, lets not forget Tevez could have claimed that goal.

Wasn't talking about the goal against Spurs , more the type of goals he was scoring at Sporting , saying that at this moment in time Ronaldo is the better finisher , would Nani be able to eclipse or equal it (showed signs at Sporting)

Ronaldo has more in his locker to make him by *far* the better player , and its this that Nani could take note from both at club + international level.

btw where would you fit Quaresma in all of this ?

Ronaldo on the right, Quaresma on left.

No f**king way should Quaresma be dropped in favour to play Nani, not a chance. Quaresma is obviously the far better player and more of a threat and has worked v hard to work himself into the national scene.

No more Figo means that CR will be able to play on the right, and Quaresma on the left, in a midfield of five, with the wingers making a 4-3-3 in attack.

Lard wrote:Not really in agreement with anything on this thread. Nani has got a better shot than Ronaldo. But Ronaldo is a far superior finisher. In a one on one i would say Ronaldo will score 7 out of 10 times. Nani i reckon 4 out of 10 times.

Lerd proves people wrong again :cheers:e

In the EPL Nani's had 21 shots on goal (or 82 shots in total) and scored 3 of them, which is about 14% success rate for the shots on goal (or 4% if we are talking total shots), which is pretty shit.

Machiavel wrote:Just watching some of his goals/highlights at Sporting. I might be crazy to say this and its early days in his Manchester United career , but does anyone else reckon that Nani could become a better finisher than Cristiano Ronaldo , he can score goals you may not associate with Cristiano Ronaldo. One thing for sure is he is a complete different option and may serve Portugal and Man United well.

The jury is still out on this one

110% wrote:In the EPL Nani's had 21 shots on goal (or 82 shots in total) and scored 3 of them, which is about 14% success rate for the shots on goal (or 4% if we are talking total shots), which is pretty shit.

By comparison to whom?

Life wrote:

110% wrote:In the EPL Nani's had 21 shots on goal (or 82 shots in total) and scored 3 of them, which is about 14% success rate for the shots on goal (or 4% if we are talking total shots), which is pretty shit.

By comparison to whom?

No comparison, just in general there were some comments on his finishing being good, and I was pointing out that I didn't think so, especially 3 goals to me does not imply good finishing

We can compare him other midfielders that may be considered good finishers if you e.g. lampard, in the EPL 52 shots on goal and scored 22 goals, giving him a succes rate of 42%.

Steven Gerrard has had a bad season by his standards and has scored 9 goals from 32 shots (28%).

110% wrote:

Life wrote:

110% wrote:In the EPL Nani's had 21 shots on goal (or 82 shots in total) and scored 3 of them, which is about 14% success rate for the shots on goal (or 4% if we are talking total shots), which is pretty shit.

By comparison to whom?

No comparison, just in general there were some comments on his finishing being good, and I was pointing out that I didn't think so, especially 3 goals to me does not imply good finishing

We can compare him other midfielders that may be considered good finishers if you e.g. lampard, in the EPL 52 shots on goal and scored 22 goals, giving him a succes rate of 42%.

Steven Gerrard has had a bad season by his standards and has scored 9 goals from 32 shots (28%).

Nani take any penalties?

How many penalties has lampard had and scored this season? I don't know and can't be bothered to look it up but let's assume 10 out of 10, in which case his stats would still be 12 goals out of 42 shots and therefore 28% (only double nani's success rate) instead of triple. Still doesn't make nani look good.