Lionel Messi receives higher rating in FIFA over his fierce rival Cristiano Ronaldo

Tanish Chachra | 03/09/2019
Lionel Messi receives higher rating in FIFA over his fierce rival Cristiano Ronaldo

Lionel Messi receives higher rating in FIFA over his long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo after the leakage of ratings.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s rivalry is among the most heated debate in the football fraternity, and every years fans look at their updated FIFA rankings to prove a point.

Both five-time Ballon d’Or winners received the same FIFA rating for theΒ first time in last year’s FIFA 19, and the Argentine International has been able to uphold his FIFA rating to 94.

On the other hand, same can be said about Ronaldo, who has dropped his rating to 93, making him an inferior player by a point in the new edition of the FIFA game.

Messi is unsurprisingly the highest rated player in Barcelona’s squad,with Marc-Andre ter Stegen the second highest at a 90 rating. Luis Suarez, Antoine Griezmann and Sergio Busquets all have an 89 rating, while Gerard Pique has been upgraded to 88.

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Meanwhile, Barcelona’s arch-rivals Real Madrid have also received the rankings of its players, And marquee summer signing Eden Hazard is the highest-rated player for Los Blancos with a whopping 91 rating.

Messi has finally reconquered the highest ranking in the FIFA roster after years of competition by Ronaldo, even in this game too.

Other leaked FIFA 20 teams ratings have also surfaced online, with Liverpool stars Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah and Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho have all been upgraded.

Meanwhile, ratings of FIFA icons have also been leaked online, with Zinedine Zidane topping the chart, as theEA Sports adds 14 legends into the ICON mode.

FIFA 20 will launch on 27th September for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC, and the fans are excited with all the upgrades and latest additions into the new addition.

Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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