Official statistics: Lionel Messi fouls as much as Real's Pepe Roughneck
Madrid / Barcelona: One is just from all the media in Europe have been verbally tarred and feathered, because he is stepping on the other hand. One has a reputation as a roughneck away, the other is as an artist. The one absolutely hated, the other worships. We're talking about Real Madrid's Pepe and World Footballer Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona.
The jobs of two professional football players are quickly explained: Pepe is paid to long and to prevent Messi and goals that he scores goals. In these areas, they are among the best in their profession. What happens when two meet, could be followed live only a short time ago, when, in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey Spain clashed.
Pepe was lying on the ground while the Argentines on the hand. Although he insisted afterwards that had happened by accident and it just was not a penalty, the media blew the headwind Portuguese national team still in the face.
But as different as it seems at first glance, the two superstars in reality are not. At least when it comes to the bare figures.
Messi fouls Pepe as
As the official statistics of the Spanish elite league shows Lionel Messi is as much a roughneck like "bully-Pepe". Both players have in the current season 16 fouls in their account. The real pro conceded in this season five, Barca's goal machine four yellow cards.
"That's interesting," like many people now say, but whether it is the image of the two actors make a difference may be doubted very clearly.
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