5. Best Goal
Cristiano Ronaldo: Goal: Manchester United vs Porto in the Champions League Quarter Final http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnGmBJV4xA This really typifies Ronaldo as a player, audacious, powerful, unpredictable and downright sublime he took a no-score situation and turned it in to a fabulous long range effort. The occasion was big as well, Champions League quarter finals and Man United were drawing 2-2 on aggregate, conceding two away goals. To have the audacity and confidence to try something like that in a high pressure match like that is something only a nut job or a truly wonderful football player can do, and he is the latter. Lionel Messi:Goal: Barcelona vs Real Madrid in the Champions League Semi Final http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Z7nuxzAjU The skill, the power, the pace and the confidence are all huge features of this brilliant solo goal from Lionel Messi. In a match which featured too much diving, too much ref crowding and too much Sergio Busquets. Messi took the game by the scruff of the neck and made that scruff beautiful with a goal that completely contrasted the tone of the match. It was on a huge stage and completely unexpected, let alone very, very talented. Who wins best goal:Tie. Both big occasions, both amazing goals, both very different goals and ones that level each other out.