Why? Ronaldo played as a winger for United when he scored 47 goals. Messi is deployed as a forward 99% of the time.
Cristiano scored only 42 and did not play as a winger, United hardly played with wingers that season. He was one of the three attacking forwards and often drifting inside with Tevez and Rooney moving outwide. He was an outside forward and a centre forward through out the season not a winge
